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High-Resolution Echelle Spectroscopy for Solar System Planets: A Planet-as-Point-Source Analogy
Parvathy Menon, Sivarani T, Sriram S +4
Transmission spectroscopy has proven to be an effective technique for characterizing exoplanet atmospheres. However, transmission spectroscopy requires planetary transits, which oc…
Addressing wavelength-correlated systematics in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy: a 2D Gaussian Process approach
Lokesh Manickavasaham, Manjunath Bestha, Sivarani Thirupathi +2
Ground-based transmission spectroscopy is often dominated by systematics, which obstructs our ability to leverage the advantages of larger aperture sizes compared to space-based ob…
Atmospheric Dispersion Measurement at Hanle Site
Manjunath Bestha, Sivarani Thirupathi, Athira Unni +2
Atmospheric dispersion introduces wavelength-dependent effects that significantly impact ground-based observations, particularly in slit- and fibre-fed spectroscopic studies. These…
An Initial Assessment of the Hanle Echelle Spectrograph for Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies
Manjunath Bestha, Athira Unni, T. Sivarani +6
Transmission spectroscopy is an effective technique for probing exoplanetary atmospheres. While most observations have relied on space facilities such as HST and JWST, ground-based…
Recovering simulated planet and disk signals using SCALES aperture masking
Mackenzie Lach, Steph Sallum, Ravinder Banyal +29
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a lenslet-based integral field spectrograph that will operate at 2 to 5 microns, imagin…
Simulating medium-spectral-resolution exoplanet characterization with SCALES angular/reference differential imaging
Aditi Desai, Stephanie E. Sallum, Ravinder Banyal +30
SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2 - 5 micron high-contrast lenslet-based integral field spectrograph (IFS) designed to characterize…
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES): driving science cases and expected outcomes
Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, Deno Stelter +34
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) is a m, high-contrast integral field spectrograph (IFS) currently being built for Keck Observa…
Field blue straggler stars: Discovery of white dwarf companions to blue metal-poor stars using UVIT/AstroSat
Anju Panthi, Annapurni Subramaniam, Kaushar Vaidya +4
Blue metal-poor (BMP) stars are the main-sequence stars that appear bluer and more luminous than normal turn-off stars of metal-poor globular clusters. They are believed to be eith…
Globular Cluster UVIT legacy Survey (GlobUleS) III. Omega Centauri in Far-Ultraviolet
Deepthi S. Prabhu, Annapurni Subramaniam, Snehalata Sahu +21
We present the first comprehensive study of the most massive globular cluster Omega Centauri in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) extending from the center to ~ 28% of the tidal radius usi…
Design of SCALES: A 2-5 Micron Coronagraphic Integral Field Spectrograph for Keck Observatory
Andrew Skemer, R. Deno Stelter, Stephanie Sallum +49
We present the design of SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) a new 2-5 micron coronagraphic integral field spectrograph under construction fo…
Globular Clusters UVIT Legacy Survey (GlobULeS) I. FUV-optical Color-Magnitude Diagrams for Eight Globular Clusters
Snehalata Sahu, Annapurni Subramaniam, Gaurav Singh +22
We present the first results of eight Globular Clusters (GCs) from the AstroSat/UVIT Legacy Survey program GlobULeS based on the observations carried out in two FUV filters (F148W…
A high-resolution spectroscopic study of two new Na- and Al-rich field giants -- likely globular cluster escapees in the Galactic halo
Avrajit Bandyopadhyay, Sivarani Thirupathi, Timothy C. Beers +1
The stars SDSS J064655.6+411620.5 and SDSS J193712.01+502455.5 are relatively bright stars that were initially observed as part of the SDSS/MARVELS pre-survey. They were selected,…
The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition
The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann +258
(Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end science platform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopic surveys. It will unvei…
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018
Alexis Hill, Nicolas Flagey, Alan McConnachie +122
(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the…
Chemical composition of two bright extremely metal-poor stars from the SDSS MARVELS pre-survey
Avrajit Bandyopadhyay, Sivarani Thirupathi, Antony Susmitha +4
\sdsszeroeight\ (V = 11.4; [Fe/H] = 3.1) and \sdssonethree\ (V = 12.4; [Fe/H] = 3.2) were observed with the SDSS 2.5-m telescope as part of the SDSS-MARVELS spectroscopic pre…
Performance results of HESP physical model
Anantha Chanumolu, Sivarani Thirupathi, Damien Jones +3
As a continuation to the published work on model based calibration technique with HESP(Hanle Echelle Spectrograph) as a case study, in this paper we present the performance results…
Very Low-Mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars From MARVELS VI: A Giant Planet and a Brown Dwarf Candidate in a Close Binary System HD 87646
Bo Ma, Jian Ge, Alex Wolszczan +34
We report the detections of a giant planet (MARVELS-7b) and a brown dwarf candidate (MARVELS-7c) around the primary star in the close binary system, HD 87646. It is the first close…
The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe
Alan McConnachie, Carine Babusiaux, Michael Balogh +173
MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrograph…
Modelling high resolution Echelle spectrographs for calibrations: Hanle Echelle spectrograph, a case study
Anantha Chanumolu, Damien Jones, Sivarani Thirupathi
We present a modelling scheme that predicts the centroids of spectral line features for a high resolution Echelle spectrograph to a high accuracy. Towards this, a computing scheme…
Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory Detailed Science Case 2024
Warren Skidmore, Bob Kirshner, David Andersen +168
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) International Observatory (TIO) will be a revolutionary leap forward in astronomical observing capabilities, enabling us to address some of the mos…
Investigating the AGN activity and black hole masses in Low Surface brightness galaxies
Smitha Subramanian., Ramya. S., Mousumi Das. +3
We present an analysis of the optical nuclear spectra from the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a sample of giant low surface brightness (GLSB) galaxies. GLSB galaxies are extreme l…
Automated Determination of [Fe/H] and [C/Fe] from Low-Resolution Spectroscopy
B. Marsteller, T. C. Beers, T. Sivarani +5
We develop an automated spectral synthesis technique for the estimation of metallicities ([Fe/H]) and carbon abundances ([C/Fe]) for metal-poor stars, including carbon-enhanced met…
SEGUE: A Spectroscopic Survey of 240,000 stars with g=14-20
II SEGUE Collaboration, Brian Yanny, Constance Rockosi +2
The SEGUE survey obtained 240,000 moderate resolution (R = 1800) spectra from 3900 - 9000 Angstroms of fainter Milky Way stars (14.0 < g < 20.3) of a wide variety of spectral types…