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Speckle Suppression with the Project 1640 Integral Field Spectrograph
Justin R. Crepp, Laurent Pueyo, Douglas Brenner +15
Project 1640 is a high-contrast imaging instrument recently commissioned at Palomar observatory. A combination of a coronagraph with an integral field spectrograph (IFS), Project 1…
A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory
Sasha Hinkley, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Neil Zimmerman +19
We describe a new instrument that forms the core of a long-term high contrast imaging program at the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The primary scientific thrust i…
Establishing Alpha Oph as a Prototype Rotator: Improved Astrometric Orbit
Sasha Hinkley, John D. Monnier, Ben R. Oppenheimer +24
The nearby star Alpha Oph (Ras Alhague) is a rapidly rotating A5IV star spinning at ~89% of its breakup velocity. This system has been imaged extensively by interferometric techniq…
Exo-Earth/Super-Earth Yield of JWST plus a Starshade External Occulter
Joseph Catanzarite, Michael Shao
We examine the scientific viability of an imaging mission to find exo-Earths combining the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with a starshade external occulter under a realistic se…
The Synergy of Direct Imaging and Astrometry for Orbit Determination of exo-Earths
Michael Shao, Joseph Catanzarite, Xiaopei Pan
The holy grail of exoplanet searches is an exo-Earth, an Earth mass planet in the habitable zone around a nearby star. Mass is the most important parameter of a planet and can only…
Discovery and Characterization of a Faint Stellar Companion to the A3V Star Zeta Virginis
Sasha Hinkley, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Douglas Brenner +17
Through the combination of high-order Adaptive Optics and coronagraphy, we report the discovery of a faint stellar companion to the A3V star zeta Virginis. This companion is ~7 mag…