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We describe the motivation, design, and early results for our 42-night, 125 star Subaru/SCExAO direct imaging survey for planets around accelerating stars. Unlike prior large surveys, ours focuses only on stars showing evidence for an…

For the first time in the history of high energy astronomy, a large CdTe gamma-ray camera is operating in space. ISGRI is the low-energy camera of the IBIS telescope on board the INTEGRAL satellite. This paper details its design and its…

A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to come. In this white paper, we present a concrete and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jiwon Jesse Han , Anirudh Chiti , Kai-Feng Chen , Keith Bechtol , Andrea Bellini , Robert Benjamin , Adam Bolton , Ana Bonaca , Alex Broughton , Esra Bulbul , Susan Clark , Charlie Conroy , Suchetha Cooray , John Franklin Crenshaw , Tansu Daylan , Arjun Dey , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Tim Eifler , Kareem El-Badry , Richard M. Feder , Peter Ferguson , Shenming Fu , Sebastian Gomez , Ryan Hickox , Christopher Hirata , Easton J. Honaker , Xiaosheng Huang , Alexander P. Ji , Michael Liu , Kevin A. McKinnon , Geoffrey Mo , Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Alessandro Savino , David J. Schlegel , Nora Shipp , Jay Strader , Federica Tarsitano , Adrien C. R. Thob , Kim-Vy Tran , Roeland P. van der Marel , Feige Wang , Risa Wechsler , Daniel R. Weisz , Dennis Zaritsky , Tianqing Zhang , Shreya Anand , Amirnezam Amiri , Abhijeet Anand , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Finian Ashmead , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Aliza Beverage , Michael R. Blanton , Warren R. Brown , Anthony G. A. Brown , Priyanka Chakraborty , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Jose M. Diego , Denis Erkal , Simone Ferraro , Lluís Galbany , Marla Geha , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Lars Hernquist , Jason A. S. Hunt , Valentin D. Ivanov , Venu Kalari , Nitya Kallivayalil , András Kovács , Kyle Kremer , Ting-Wen Lan , Denis Leahy , Jiaxuan Li , Ivan Minchev , GyuChul Myung , Ethan O. Nadler , Joan R. Najita , Melissa K. Ness , Jacob Nibauer , Fabio Pacucci , David Parkinson , Ekta Patel , R. Michael Rich , Marina Ricci , Graziano Rossi , Nikolina Sarcevic , Arnab Sarkar , Andrew K. Saydjari , Arman Shafieloo , Zachary Slepian , Sangmo Tony Sohn , David N. Spergel , Róbert Szabó , Christina C. Williams , John F. Wu

Observations of circumstellar environments to look for the direct signal of exoplanets and the scattered light from disks has significant instrumental implications. In the past 15 years, major developments in adaptive optics, coronagraphy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 J. -L. Beuzit , A. Vigan , D. Mouillet , K. Dohlen , R. Gratton , A. Boccaletti , J. -F. Sauvage , H. M. Schmid , M. Langlois , C. Petit , A. Baruffolo , M. Feldt , J. Milli , Z. Wahhaj , L. Abe , U. Anselmi , J. Antichi , R. Barette , J. Baudrand , P. Baudoz , A. Bazzon , P. Bernardi , P. Blanchard , R. Brast , P. Bruno , T. Buey , M. Carbillet , M. Carle , E. Cascone , F. Chapron , G. Chauvin , J. Charton , R. Claudi , A. Costille , V. De Caprio , A. Delboulbé , S. Desidera , C. Dominik , M. Downing , O. Dupuis , C. Fabron , D. Fantinel , G. Farisato , P. Feautrier , E. Fedrigo , T. Fusco , P. Gigan , C. Ginski , J. Girard , E. Giro , D. Gisler , L. Gluck , C. Gry , T. Henning , N. Hubin , E. Hugot , S. Incorvaia , M. Jaquet , M. Kasper , E. Lagadec , A. -M. Lagrange , H. Le Coroller , D. Le Mignant , B. Le Ruyet , G. Lessio , J. -L. Lizon , M. Llored , L. Lundin , F. Madec , Y. Magnard , M. Marteaud , P. Martinez , D. Maurel , F. Ménard , D. Mesa , O. Möller-Nilsson , T. Moulin , C. Moutou , A. Origné , J. Parisot , A. Pavlov , D. Perret , J. Pragt , P. Puget , P. Rabou , J. Ramos , J. -M. Reess , F. Rigal , S. Rochat , R. Roelfsema , G. Rousset , A. Roux , M. Saisse , B. Salasnich , E. Santambrogio , S. Scuderi , D. Segransan , A. Sevin , R. Siebenmorgen , C. Soenke , E. Stadler , M. Suarez , D. Tiphène , M. Turatto , S. Udry , F. Vakili , L. B. F. M. Waters , L. Weber , F. Wildi , G. Zins , A. Zurlo

A NASA sounding rocket for high contrast imaging with a visible nulling coronagraph, the Planet Imaging Coronagraphic Technology Using a Reconfigurable Experimental Base (PICTURE-B) payload has made two suborbital attempts to observe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Ewan S. Douglas , Christopher B. Mendillo , Timothy A. Cook , Kerri L. Cahoy , Supriya Chakrabarti

Gaussian aperture pupil masks (GAPMs) can in theory achieve the contrast requisite for directly imaging an extrasolar planet. We use lab tests and simulations to further study their possible place as a high contrast imaging technique. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John H. Debes , Jian Ge

So far, most of the about 5700 exoplanets have been discovered mainly with radial velocity and transit methods. These techniques are sensitive to planets in close orbits, not being able to probe large star--planet separations. $\mu$-lensing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-15 Riccardo Claudi , Dino Mesa

Direct imaging of exoplanets presents a formidable technical challenge owing to the small angular separation and high contrast between exoplanets and their host stars. High Dispersion Coronagraphy (HDC) is a pathway to achieve unprecedented…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ji Wang , Dimitri Mawet , Garreth Ruane , Renyu Hu , Bjorn Benneke

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS) over a large volume at high redshift, using the near-IR grism (1.0-1.93 $\mu$m, $R=435-865$) and the 0.28 deg$^2$ wide field camera. We present a…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has now started its exploration of exoplanetary worlds. In particular, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) with its Low-Resolution Spectrometer (LRS) carries out transit, eclipse, and phase-curve…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Achrène Dyrek , Elsa Ducrot , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Pascal Tremblin , Sarah Kendrew , Jeroen Bouwman , Rémi Bouffet

For weak gravitational lensing cosmology with the forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, image coaddition, or construction of oversampled images from undersampled ones, is a critical step in the image processing pipeline. In the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Kaili Cao , Christopher M. Hirata , Katherine Laliotis , Masaya Yamamoto , Emily Macbeth , M. A. Troxel

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (RST) Wide Field Imager (WFI) is equipped with a slitless prism that can be used for spectroscopic discovery and follow-up of explosive transients at high redshift as part of its High Latitude Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Greg Aldering , David Rubin , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Saul Perlmutter , Susana Deustua

We present the coronagraphic and adaptive optics performance of the Gemini-South Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI). NICI includes a dual-channel imager for simultaneous spectral difference imaging, a dedicated 85-element curvature…

The Roman Coronagraph's capabilities in the faint star, small IWA limit has enormous scientific (programmatic) impacts. Testing its performance in this limit provides a first look at challenges that may be encountered with the Habitable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Thayne Currie , Yiting Li , Brianna Lacy , Mona El Morsy , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Naoshi Murakami , Danielle Bovie

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey a large area of the sky at near-infrared wavelengths with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI). The performance of the 18 WFI H4RG-10 detectors will need to be well-characterized and regularly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Phani Datta Velicheti , John F. Wu , Andreea Petric

The Astro2020 decadal survey recommended an infrared, optical, ultra-violet (IR/O/UV) telescope with a $\sim$6~m inscribed diameter and equipped with a coronagraph instrument to directly image exoEarths in the habitable zone of their host…

We present and validate 20 deg$^2$ of overlapping synthetic imaging surveys representing the full depth of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) and five years of observations of the Vera C. Rubin…

The world's first ever ''adaptive stellar coronagraph'' facility will be the PLACID instrument, installed on Turkey's new national observatory 4-m DAG telescope. PLACID incorporates a customized spatial light modulator (SLM) acting as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Ruben Tandon , Liurong Lin , Axel Potier , Laurent Jolissaint , Audrey Baur , Derya Öztürk Çetni , Jonas G. Kühn

We present an overview of the EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE), selected by NASA for technology development and maturation. EXCEDE will study the formation, evolution and architectures of exoplanetary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Olivier Guyon , Glenn Schneider , Ruslan Belikov , Domenick J. Tenerelli

With the ever-growing number of exoplanets detected, the issue of characterization is becoming more and more relevant. Direct imaging is certainly the most efficient but the most challenging tool to probe the atmosphere of exoplanets and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-23 Boccaletti Anthony