12 papers
Investigating the differential limb coupling effect for diffraction-limited spectrographs with PARVI
Andrea S. J. Lin, Ashley D. Baker, Samuel Halverson +5
A promising new architecture for extreme-precision radial velocity (EPRV) spectrographs, hunting for small-amplitude stellar Doppler shifts induced by orbiting planets, is to build…
Dimpled scalar vortex coronagraph laboratory demonstration
Niyati Desai, Garreth Ruane, Susan Redmond +3
Achieving the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) goal of 10^-10 contrast at a separation of 3 /D across a 20% bandwidth requires coronagraph focal plane masks with both broadba…
Model validation and tolerancing of scalar vortex masks in the High Contrast Imaging Testbed (HCIT) facility
Niyati Desai, Garreth Ruane, Daniel Shanks +3
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission will require coronagraphs capable of suppressing starlight at the contrast level to directly image exo-Earths. High c…
Revealing the accelerating wind in the inner region of the colliding-wind binary WR 112
John D. Monnier, Yinuo Han, Michael F. Corcoran +17
Colliding winds in massive binaries generate X-ray-bright shocks, synchrotron radio emission, and sometimes even dusty "pinwheel" spirals. We report the first X-ray detections of t…
Flight masks of the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument
A. J. Eldorado Riggs, Vanessa P. Bailey, Dwight Moody +25
Over the past two decades, thousands of confirmed exoplanets have been detected. The next major challenge is to characterize these other worlds and their stellar systems. Much info…
Fringing analysis and forward modeling of Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) spectra
Katelyn A. Horstman, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Jason J. Wang +27
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) combines high contrast imaging with high resolution spectroscopy (R~35,000 in K band) to study directly imaged exoplanets and brown…