The FIRST-PL instrument on the Subaru Telescope enables a new observational capability: measuring stellar spin orientations for indirect constraints on exoplanet orbital geometry. We describe the instrument and demonstrate data reduction techniques to measure the spin orientation of Humu (Altair), whose apparent size i...
A. Walk, S. Vievard, O. Guyon et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 2 citations
Laser-driven inertial fusion requires high-energy laser drivers that are faster, more stable, and more repeatable than present landmark ignition systems. Depending on the driver concept, such systems may require hundreds to thousands of beamlines, making beam control a problem not only of stability and repeatability, b...
J. Ohland, Leon Dauerer, N. Lebas et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 0 citations
A lingering technical challenge for pyramid wavefront sensors (PyWFS) is their change in response between calibration and correction residuals, a quantity known as optical gain (OG). Given the prevalent use of PyWFSs in current and planned high contrast adaptive optics (AO), understanding and reliably measuring OG for...
E. McEwen, J. Males, O. Guyon et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 1 citation
Current HCI systems are limited by residual starlight, resulting from atmospheric turbulence unseen by the adaptive optics system or stemming from imperfections in the optical system itself. This leads to speckles in the PSF of the final images inhibiting our detection capabilities. Reaching the photon-noise limit in h...
S. Juillard, O. Guyon, Niyati Desai et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 0 citations
Subaru/SCExAO/CHARIS enables near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry. Quantitative polarimetry is useful for a variety of science cases, particularly measurements related to dust grain properties in circumstellar disks. This capability requires correcting for polarization effects from the optical path via a Mue...
Thomas McIntosh, Man-Xuan Zhang, Briley L. Lewis et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 2 citations
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