Jeffrey R. Pier
AST Division of Astronomical Sciences
MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Start Date:
August 1, 2005
Expires:
July 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:
$1429206
Investigator(s):
Ben Oppenheimer bro@amnh.org (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:
American Museum Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St
New York, NY 10024 212/769-5975
NSF Program(s):
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & INSTRM, MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):
OTHR,1207,0000
Program Element Code(s):
1218,1189
ABSTRACT
AST-0520822/Oppenheimer, Amer Mus Nat History
The project will develop a new type of integral field spectrograph. The spectrograph is designed specifically to exploit wavelength-dependent speckle artifacts to overcome dynamic range limitations when trying to observe planets that orbit stars that are some 10^5 to 10^12 times brighter. Combined with a coronograph, the new spectrograph will boost sensitivity by as much as a factor of 100 over the use of a coronograph alone and will commensurately increase the likelihood of direct visual observation of extra-solar planets.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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A. Sivaramakrishnan and B. R. Oppenheimer.
"Astrometry and Photometry with Coronagraphs,"
Astrophysical Journal,
v.647,
2006,
p. 620.
Hinkley, S; Oppenheimer, BR; Soummer, R; Sivaramakrishnan, A; Roberts, LC; Kuhn, J; Makidon, RB; Perrin, MD; Lloyd, JP; Kratter, K; Brenner, D.
"Temporal evolution of coronagraphic dynamic range and constraints on companions to Vega,"
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,
v.654,
2007,
p. 633
- 640.
Lafreniere, D; Doyon, R; Marois, C; Nadeau, D; Oppenheimer, BR; Roche, PF; Rigaut, F; Graham, JR; Jayawardhana, R; Johnstone, D; Kalas, PG; Macintosh, B; Racine, R.
"The Gemini Deep Planet Survey,"
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,
v.670,
2007,
p. 1367
- 1390.
Makidon, R. B., Sivaramakrishnan, A., Perrin, M. D., Roberts, L. C., Oppenheimer, B. R., Soummer, R. and Graham, J. R..
"An Analysis of Fundamental Waffle Mode in Early AEOS Adaptive Optics Images,"
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
v.117,
2005,
p. 831.
Nakajima, T., Morino, J.-I., Tsuji, T., Suto, H., Ishii, M., Tamura, M., Fukagawa, M., Murakawa, K., Miyama, S., Takami, H., Takato, N., Oya, S., Hayashi, S., Kudo, T., Itoh, Y., Oasa, Y., Oppenheimer, B. R..
"A coronagraphic search for brown dwarfs and planets around nearby stars,"
Astronomische Nachrichten,
v.326,
2005,
p. 952.
Roberts, L. C., Jr., Turner, N. H., Bradford, L. W., Brummelaar, T. A., Oppenheimer, B. R., Kuhn, J. R., Whitman, K., Perrin, M. D., Graham, J. R..
"Adaptive optics photometry and astrometry of binary stars,"
Astronomical Journal,
v.130,
2005,
p. 2262.
S. Hinkley, B. R. Oppenheimer, R. Soummer, A. Sivaramakrishnan, L. C. Roberts, Jr., J. Kuhn, R. B. Makidon, M. D. Perrin, J. P. Lloyd, K. Kratter, D. Brenner.
"Temporal Evolution of Coronagraphic Dynamic Range and Constraints on Companions to
Vega,"
Astrophysical Journal,
v.654,
2007,
p. 633.
Sivaramakrishnan, A. and Lloyd.
"Spiders in Lyot coronagraphs,"
Astrophysical Journal,
v.633,
2005,
p. 528.
Sivaramakrishnan, A., Soummer, R., Sivaramakrishnan, A., Lloyd, J. P., Oppenheimer, B. R., and Makidon, R. B..
"Low order aberrations in band-limited Lyot coronagraphs,"
Astrophysical Journal,
v.634,
2005,
p. 1416.
Sivaramakrishnan, A; Oppenheimer, BR; Hinkley, S; Brenner, D; Soummer, R; Mey, JL; Lloyd, JP; Perrin, MD; Graham, JR; Makidon, RB; Roberts, LC; Kuhn, JR.
"The Lyot Project: status and results,"
COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE,
v.8,
2007,
p. 355
- 364.
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