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20122024
most citedAccreting Protoplanets in the LkCa 15 Transition Disk

302 citations · 1.3k across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

astro-ph.IM2024

Resolving the Young 2 Cygni Run-away Star into a Binary using iLocater

Justin R. Crepp, Jonathan Crass, Andrew J. Bechter +30

Precision radial velocity (RV) spectrographs that use adaptive optics (AO) show promise to advance telescope observing capabilities beyond those of seeing-limited designs. We are b…

astro-ph.IM2024

Tuning the MAPS Adaptive Secondary Mirror: Actuator Control, PID Tuning, Power Spectra and Failure Diagnosis

Jess A. Johnson, Amali Vaz, Manny Montoya +17

The MMT Adaptive optics exoPlanet characterization System (MAPS) is currently in its engineering phase, operating on-sky at the MMT Telescope on Mt. Hopkins in southern Arizona. Th…

astro-ph.IM2024

ESCAPE: Efficient Synthesis of Calibrations for Adaptive optics through Pseudo-synthetic and Empirical methods

Jacob Taylor, Robin Swanson, Parker Levesque +6

With the commissioning of the refurbished adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) for the 6.5-meter MMT Observatory under way, special consideration had to be made to properly calibrate th…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future

Enrico Pinna, Fabio Rossi, Guido Agapito +27

The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be seen such as precursor for the ELT SCAO systems, combining together key technologies such as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptiv…

astro-ph.IM2023

The MAPS Adaptive Secondary Mirror: First Light, Laboratory Work, and Achievements

Jess A. Johnson, Amali Vaz, Manny Montoya +23

The MMT Adaptive Optics exoPlanet Characterization System (MAPS) is a comprehensive update to the first generation MMT adaptive optics system (MMTAO), designed to produce a facilit…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Detection of Near-Infrared Water Ice at the Surface of the (pre)Transitional Disk of AB Aur: Informing Icy Grain Abundance, Composition, and Size

S. K. Betti, K. Follette, S. Jorquera +17

We present near-infrared Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer LMIRCam imagery of the disk around the Herbig Ae/Be star AB Aurigae. A comparison of surface brightness at Ks (2.1…