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The development of HISPEC for Keck and MODHIS for TMT: science cases and predicted sensitivities
Quinn M. Konopacky, Ashley D. Baker, Dimitri Mawet +72
HISPEC is a new, high-resolution near-infrared spectrograph being designed for the W.M. Keck II telescope. By offering single-shot, R=100,000 between 0.98 - 2.5 um, HISPEC will ena…
The ZTF Source Classification Project: I. Methods and Infrastructure
Jan van Roestel, Dmitry A. Duev, Ashish A. Mahabal +18
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has been observing the entire northern sky since the start of 2018 down to a magnitude of 20.5 ( for 30s exposure) in , , and fil…
The ZTF Source Classification Project: II. Periodicity and variability processing metrics
Michael W. Coughlin, Kevin Burdge, Dmitry A. Duev +22
The current generation of all-sky surveys is rapidly expanding our ability to study variable and transient sources. These surveys, with a variety of sensitivities, cadences, and fi…
ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System
Yun Wang, Mark Dickinson, Lynne Hillenbrand +45
ATLAS (Astrophysics Telescope for Large Area Spectroscopy) is a concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. It is the spectroscopic follow-up mission to WFIRST, boosting its scie…
High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization with the Keck and Thirty Meter Telescopes
Dimitri Mawet, Michael Fitzgerald, Quinn Konopacky +46
HISPEC (High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization) is a proposed diffraction-limited spectrograph for the W.M. Keck Observatory, and a pathfinder for the…
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
Jennifer Marshall, James Bullock, Adam Burgasser +23
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer is a next-generation massively multiplexed spectroscopic facility currently under development in Hawaii. It is completely dedicated to large-sca…
All-Sky Near Infrared Space Astrometry
Barbara McArthur, David Hobbs, Erik Høg +20
Gaia is currently revolutionizing modern astronomy. However, much of the Galactic plane, center and the spiral arm regions are obscured by interstellar extinction, rendering them i…
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 Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives
Matthew J. Graham, S. R. Kulkarni, Eric C. Bellm +114
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2…
ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System
Yun Wang, Massimo Robberto, Mark Dickinson +37
ATLAS (Astrophysics Telescope for Large Area Spectroscopy) Probe is a concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. It is the follow-up space mission to WFIRST, boosting its scient…
Simulated Performance of Timescale Metrics for Aperiodic Light Curves
Krzysztof Findeisen, Ann Marie Cody, Lynne Hillenbrand
Aperiodic variability is a characteristic feature of young stars, massive stars, and active galactic nuclei. With the recent proliferation of time domain surveys, it is increasingl…
Airships: A New Horizon for Science
Sarah H. Miller, Robert Fesen, Lynne Hillenbrand +33
The "Airships: A New Horizon for Science" study at the Keck Institute for Space Studies investigated the potential of a variety of airships currently operable or under development…
Electric Field Conjugation with the Project 1640 coronagraph
Eric Cady, Christoph Baranec, Charles Beichman +25
The Project 1640 instrument on the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory is a coronagraphic instrument with an integral field spectrograph at the back end, designed to fin…
Building galaxies, stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars. A scientific proposal for a European Ultraviolet-Visible Observatory (EUVO)
Ana I. Gómez de Castro, Thierry Appourchaux, Martin Barstow +36
The growth of luminous structures and the building blocks of life in the Universe began as primordial gas was processed in stars and mixed at galactic scales. The mechanisms respon…
Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Final Report
J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay +51
In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest pr…
ASTRA: ASTrometry and phase-Referencing Astronomy on the Keck interferometer
J. Woillez, R. Akeson, M. Colavita +24
ASTRA (ASTrometric and phase-Referencing Astronomy) is an upgrade to the existing Keck Interferometer which aims at providing new self-phase referencing (high spectral resolution o…
Application of a damped Locally Optimized Combination of Images method to the spectral characterization of faint companions using an Integral Field Spectrograph
Laurent Pueyo, Justin R. Crepp, Gautam Vasisht +14
High-contrast imaging instruments are now being equipped with integral field spectrographs (IFS) to facilitate the detection and characterization of faint substellar companions. Al…
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…
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…
Parallactic Motion for Companion Discovery: An M-Dwarf Orbiting Alcor
Neil Zimmerman, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Sasha Hinkley +16
The A5V star Alcor has an M3-M4 dwarf companion, as evidenced by a novel astrometric technique. Imaging spectroscopy combined with adaptive optics coronagraphy allowed for the dete…