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20132022
most citedThe NIKA2 large field-of-view millimeter continuum camera for the 30-m IRAM telescope

160 citations · 1.4k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

astro-ph.SR2022★ 11 cited

SCExAO and Keck Direct Imaging Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion Around the Accelerating F5 Star HIP 5319

Noah Swimmer, Thayne Currie, Sarah Steiger +26

We present the direct imaging discovery of a low-mass companion to the nearby accelerating F star, HIP 5319, using SCExAO coupled with the CHARIS, VAMPIRES, and MEC instruments in…

astro-ph.IM2022

Membrane-less phonon trapping and resolution enhancement in optical microwave kinetic inductance detectors

Nicholas Zobrist, W. Hawkins Clay, Grégoire Coiffard +4

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) sensitive to light in the ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths are superconducting micro-resonators that are capable of measuring…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 24 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 11 cited

Improving the dynamic range of single photon counting kinetic inductance detectors

Nicholas Zobrist, Nikita Klimovich, Byeong Ho Eom +8

We develop a simple coordinate transformation which can be employed to compensate for the nonlinearity introduced by a Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector's (MKID) homodyne reado…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 59 cited

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)…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 25 cited

Design and Performance of Hafnium Optical and Near-IR Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Nicholas Zobrist, Grégoire Coiffard, Bruce Bumble +9

We report on the design and performance of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) sensitive to single photons in the optical to near-infrared range using hafnium as the sen…