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Demonstration of broadband contrast at 1.2 /D and greater for the EXCEDE Starlight Suppression System
Dan Sirbu, Sandrine J. Thomas, Ruslan Belikov +8
The EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) science mission concept uses a visible-wavelength Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) coronagraph to e…
Prospects for exoplanet imaging in multi-star systems with starshades
Dan Sirbu, Ruslan Belikov, Eduardo Bendek +3
We explore the capabilities of a starshade mission to directly image multi-star systems. In addition to the diffracted and scattered light for the on-axis star, a multi-star system…
Searching for Faint Comoving Companions to the Centauri system in the VVV Survey Infrared Images
J. C. Beamin, D. Minniti, J. B. Pullen +7
The VVV survey has observed the southern disk of the Milky Way in the near infrared, covering 240 deg in the filters. We search the VVV Survey images in a 19…
Individual, Model-Independent Masses of the Closest Known Brown Dwarf Binary to the Sun
E. Victor Garcia, S. Mark Ammons, Maissa Salama +18
At a distance of 2~pc, our nearest brown dwarf neighbor, Luhman 16 AB, has been extensively studied since its discovery 3 years ago, yet its most fundamental parameter -- the masse…
Development of a Miniaturized Deformable Mirror Controller
Eduardo Bendek, Dana Lynch, Eugene Pluzhnik +4
High-Performance Adaptive Optics systems are rapidly spreading as useful applications in the fields of astronomy, ophthalmology, and telecommunications. This technology is critical…
Simultaneous Exoplanet Characterization and deep wide-field imaging with a diffractive pupil telescope
Olivier Guyon, Josh A. Eisner, Roger Angel +12
High-precision astrometry can identify exoplanets and measure their orbits and masses, while coronagraphic imaging enables detailed characterization of their physical properties an…