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SCExAO/MEC and CHARIS Discovery of a Low Mass, 6 AU-Separation Companion to HIP 109427 using Stochastic Speckle Discrimination and High-Contrast Spectroscopy
Sarah Steiger, Thayne Currie, Timothy D. Brandt +28
We report the direct imaging discovery of a low-mass companion to the nearby accelerating A star, HIP 109427, with the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrum…
Design and performance of the PALM-3000 3.5 kHz upgrade
Seth R. Meeker, Tuan N. Truong, Jennifer E. Roberts +11
PALM-3000 (P3K), the second generation adaptive optics (AO) instrument for the 5.1 meter Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory, was released as a facility class instrument in Octob…
The MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO
Alexander B. Walter, Neelay Fruitwala, Sarah Steiger +21
We present the MKID Exoplanet Camera (MEC), a z through J band (800 - 1400 nm) integral field spectrograph located behind The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO)…
Optical and Near-IR Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) in the 2020s
Benjamin A. Mazin, Jeb Bailey, Jo Bartlett +22
Optical and near-IR Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, are superconducting photon counting detectors capable of measuring the energy and arrival time of individual O…
Wide-band Parametric Amplifier Readout and Resolution of Optical Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, Byeong Ho Eom, Peter Day +9
The energy resolution of a single photon counting Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) can be degraded by noise coming from the primary low temperature amplifier in the det…
Directly Imaging Rocky Planets from the Ground
B. Mazin, É. Artigau, V. Bailey +59
Over the past three decades instruments on the ground and in space have discovered thousands of planets outside the solar system. These observations have given rise to an astonishi…
Smartphone scene generator for efficient characterization of visible imaging detectors
Michael Bottom, Leo S. Neat, Leon K. Harding +3
Full characterization of imaging detectors involves subjecting them to spatially and temporally varying illumination patterns over a large dynamic range. Here we present a scene ge…
Large-format platinum silicide microwave kinetic inductance detectors for optical to near-IR astronomy
P. Szypryt, S. R. Meeker, G. Coiffard +10
We have fabricated and characterized 10,000 and 20,440 pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) arrays for the Dark-speckle Near-IR Energy-resolved Superconducting Spectr…
High Quality Factor Platinum Silicide Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
P. Szypryt, B. A. Mazin, G. Ulbricht +4
We report on the development of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) using platinum silicide as the sensor material. MKIDs are an emerging superconducting detector techno…
Search for Optical Pulsations in PSR J0337+1715
M. J. Strader, A. M. Archibald, S. R. Meeker +8
We report on a search for optical pulsations from PSR J0337+1715 at its observed radio pulse period. PSR J0337+1715 is a millisecond pulsar (2.7 ms spin period) in a triple hierarc…
The ARCONS Pipeline: Data Reduction for MKID Arrays
J. C. van Eyken, M. J. Strader, A. B. Walter +8
The Array Camera for Optical to Near-IR Spectrophotometry, or ARCONS, is a camera based on Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs), a new technology that has the potential f…
Science with KRAKENS
Benjamin A. Mazin, George Becker, Kevin France +12
The Keck science community is entering an era of unprecedented change. Powerful new instrument like ZTF, JWST, LSST, and the ELTs will catalyze this change, and we must be ready to…
Direct Detection of SDSS J0926+3624 Orbital Expansion with ARCONS
P. Szypryt, G. E. Duggan, B. A. Mazin +10
AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) stars belong to a class of ultra-compact, short period binaries with spectra dominated largely by helium. SDSS J0926+3624 is of particular interest as…
Excess Optical Enhancement Observed with ARCONS for Early Crab Giant Pulses
M. J. Strader, M. D. Johnson, B. A. Mazin +11
We observe an extraordinary link in the Crab pulsar between the enhancement of an optical pulse and the timing of the corresponding giant radio pulse. At optical through infrared w…
ARCONS: A 2024 Pixel Optical through Near-IR Cryogenic Imaging Spectrophotometer
B. A. Mazin, S. R. Meeker, M. J. Strader +9
We present the design, construction, and commissioning results of ARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-IR Spectrophotometry. ARCONS is the first ground-based instrument in…
A titanium-nitride near-infrared kinetic inductance photon-counting detector and its anomalous electrodynamics
J. Gao, M. R. Visser, M. O. Sandberg +10
We demonstrate single-photon counting at 1550 nm with titanium-nitride (TiN) microwave kinetic inductance detectors. Energy resolution of 0.4 eV and arrival-time resolution of 1.2…
A readout for large arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Sean McHugh, Benjamin A. Mazin, Bruno Serfass +5
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are superconducting detectors capable of counting single photons and measuring their energy in the UV, optical, and near-IR. MKIDs fe…
ARCONS: a highly multiplexed superconducting UV to near-IR camera
Kieran O'Brien, Benjamin A. Mazin, Sean McHugh +2
ARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotometry, was recently commissioned at the Coude focus of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. At…
A superconducting focal plane array for ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared astrophysics
Benjamin A. Mazin, Bruce Bumble, Seth R. Meeker +3
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, have proven to be a powerful cryogenic detector technology due to their sensitivity and the ease with which they can be multiplexe…