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The Gemini Planet Imager is a high-contrast near-infrared instrument specifically designed to image exoplanets and circumstellar disks over a narrow field of view. We use science data and AO telemetry taken during the first 1.5 yr of the…

Hyperspectral images are crucial for many research works. Spectral super-resolution (SSR) is a method used to obtain high spatial resolution (HR) hyperspectral images from HR multispectral images. Traditional SSR methods include…

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The success of ground-based, high contrast imaging for the detection of exoplanets in part depends on the ability to differentiate between quasi-static speckles caused by aberrations not corrected by adaptive optics (AO) systems, known as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-13 Alexander T. Rodack , Jared R. Males , Olivier Guyon , Benjamin A. Mazin , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Dimitri Mawet

The search for extrasolar planets has driven rapid advances in instrumentation, resulting in cameras such as SPHERE at the VLT, GPI at Gemini South and SCExAO at Subaru, capable of achieving very high contrast ($\sim10^{6}$) around bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 P. Scicluna , F. Kemper , R. Siebenmorgen , R. Wesson , J. A. D. L. Blommaert , S. Wolf

A microlensing exoplanet search is a unique method for finding planets orbiting distant stars. However, in the past, the method used to analyze microlensing data could not deal with complex lens systems. The number of lenses was limited…

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We set out a simulation to explore the follow-up of exoplanet candidates. We look at comparing photometric (transit method) and spectroscopic (Doppler shift method) techniques using three instruments: NGTS, HARPS and CORALIE. We take into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Benjamin F. Cooke , Don Pollacco

Exoplanets are celestial bodies orbiting stars beyond our Solar System. Although historically they posed detection challenges, Kepler's data has revolutionized our understanding. By analyzing flux values from the Kepler Mission, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Maneet Chatterjee , Anuvab Sen , Subhabrata Roy

The continual push to directly image exoplanets at lower masses and closer separations orbiting around bright stars remains limited by both quasi-static and residual adaptive optics (AO) aberration. In previous papers we have proposed a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin Gerard , Christian Marois

Imaging exoplanetary systems is essential to characterizing exoplanetary systems and to studying planet-disk interactions to understand planet formation. Such imaging in the visible and near-infrared is challenging because these objects are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Raphael Galicher , Axel Potier , Johan Mazoyer , Zahed Wahhaj , Pierre Baudoz , Gaël Chauvin

The stripe noise existing in remote sensing images badly degrades the visual quality and restricts the precision of data analysis. Therefore, many destriping models have been proposed in recent years. In contrast to these existing models,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Chengjing Wang , Xile Zhao , Qingsong Wang , Zepei Ma , Peipei Tang

The aim of this paper is to investigate ways to optimize the accuracy of photometric redshifts for a SNAP like mission. We focus on how the accuracy of the photometric redshifts depends on the magnitude limit and signal-to-noise ratio,…

Polarimetric imaging is one of the most effective techniques for high-contrast imaging and characterization of circumstellar environments. These environments can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Laurence Denneulin , Maud Langlois , Éric Thiébaut , Nelly Pustelnik

High-resolution cross-correlation methods are widely used to discover and to characterise atomic and molecular species in exoplanet atmospheres. The characteristic cross-correlation signal is typically represented as a function of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Daniel Sebastian , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Matteo Brogi

The direct imaging of extrasolar giant planets demands the highest possible contrasts (dH ~10 magnitudes) at the smallest angular separations (~0.1'') from the star. We present an adaptive optics observing method, called star-hopping,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Z. Wahhaj , J. Milli , C. Romero , L. Cieza , A. Zurlo , A. Vigan , E. Peña , G. Valdes , F. Cantalloube , J. Girard , B. Pantoja

Recently, Currie et al. simulated the detection of molecules in the atmospheres of temperate rocky exoplanets transiting nearby M-dwarf stars. They simulated detections via spectral cross-correlation applied to high resolution optical and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Drake Deming , Miles H. Currie , Victoria S. Meadows , Sarah Peacock

Our aim is to devise a detection method for exoplanet signatures (multiple sinusoids) that is both powerful and robust to partially unknown statistics under the null hypothesis. In the considered application, the noise is mostly created by…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-14 Sophia Sulis , David Mary , Lionel Bigot

Remote sensing image (RSI) denoising is an important topic in the field of remote sensing. Despite the impressive denoising performance of RSI denoising methods, most current deep learning-based approaches function as black boxes and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jingjing Liu , Jiashun Jin , Xianchao Xiu , Jianhua Zhang , Wanquan Liu

The quest for Earth-like, extrasolar planets (exoplanets), especially those located inside the habitable zone of their host stars, requires techniques sensitive enough to detect the faint signals produced by those planets. The radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 M. Oshagh

In this article, we propose a super-resolution method to resolve the problem of image low spatial because of the limitation of imaging devices. We make use of the strong non-linearity mapped ability of the back-propagation neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Zeling Wu , Haoxiang Wang

For imaging faint exoplanets and disks, a coronagraph-equipped observatory needs focal plane wavefront correction to recover high contrast. The most efficient correction methods iteratively estimate the stellar electric field and suppress…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 A J Eldorado Riggs , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Tyler D. Groff
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