2014 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Imaging habitable zone planets with Subaru Telescope and TMT
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26220704
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| Research Institution | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan |
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Principal Investigator |
GUYON Olivier 国立天文台, ハワイ観測所, RCUH職員 (90399288)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
村上 尚史 北海道大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (80450188)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-05-30 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | exoplanets / telescopes / adaptive optics / coronagraphy |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The purpose of our project is to image Jupiter-like planets around nearby stars with the 8m Subaru Telescope and to prepare technology to image of smaller Earth-like planets with the larger TMT telescope.
In FY2014, we have worked closely with University of California Santa Barbara to start the construction of an advanced photon-counting camera working in the near-infrared. This camera, when combined with the existing Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument, will make Subaru Telescope the world's most powerful telescope to image exoplanets. We have also advanced the SCExAO instrument's ability to remove starlight to observe exoplanets.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Our main effort is to build, in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, the advanced “MKIDs” near-IR camera. The camera is on schedule, with the most major components already delivered, and the overall camera assembly has started. The camera design is completed. The cryogenic enclosure for the camera has been completed and delivered.
To prepare for the arrival of the camera, we have started a collaboration with the University of Hawaii near-IR camera group. We are using their camera (SAPHIRA) to prepare fast image analysis tools we will need with the MKIDs camera.
We have also completed significant upgrades to the SCExAO instrument that will be combined with the camera.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
During this fiscal year (FY2015), the MKIDs camera will be completed, so that it can be tested and installed on the Subaru Telescope in FY2016. We will start on-sky observations with the camera in FY2016. During FY2015, we will continue development of image analysis algorithms with the University of Hawaii SAPHIRA camera. We will work closely with UC Santa Barbara to prepare the integration of the MKIDs camera with the Subaru Telescope instrument.
We will also advance the ability of the Subaru Telescope instrument to reject starlight with the development of optical masks.
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Research Products
(18 results)
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[Journal Article] Adaptive optics at the Subaru telescope: current capabilities and development2014
Author(s)
Olivier Guyon, Yutaka Hayano, Motohide Tamura, Tomoyuki Kudo, Shin Oya, Yosuke Minowa, Olivier Lai, Nemanja Jovanovic, Naruhisa Takato, Jeremy Kasdin, Tyler Groff, Masahiko Hayashi, Nobuo Arimoto, Hideki Takami, Colin Bradley, Hajime Sugai, Guy Perrin, Peter Tuthill, Ben Mazin
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume: 9148
Pages: 1-10
DOI
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[Journal Article] SCExAO: First Results and On-Sky Performance2014
Author(s)
Thayne Currie, Olivier Guyon, Frantz Martinache, Christophe Clergeon, Michael McElwain, Christian Thalmann, Nemanja Jovanovic, Garima Singh, Tomoyuki Kudo
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium
Volume: 299
Pages: 34-35
DOI
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[Journal Article] CHARIS science: performance simulations for the Subaru Telescope's third-generation of exoplanet imaging instrumentation2014
Author(s)
T. Brandt, M. McElwain, M. Janson, G. Knapp, K. Mede, M. Limbach, T. Groff, A. Burrows, J. Gunn, O. Guyon, J. Hashimoto, M. Hayashi, N. Jovanovic, N. Kasdin, M. Kuzuhara, R. Lupton, F. Martinache, S. Sorahana, D. Spiegel, N. Takato, M. Tamura, E.Turner, R. Vanderbei, J. Wisniewski
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume: 9148
Pages: 1-13
DOI
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[Journal Article] Direct imaging of exoplanets in the habitable zone with adaptive optics2014
Author(s)
Jared Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Katie Morzinski, Alfio Puglisi, Philip Hinz, Katherine B. Follette, John D. Monnier, Volker Tolls, Timothy J. Rodigas, Alycia Weinberger, Alan Boss, Derek Kopon, Ya-lin Wu, Simone Esposito, Armando Riccardi, Marco Xompero, Runa Briguglio, Enrico Pinna
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume: 9148
Pages: 1-13
DOI
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[Journal Article] Construction and status of the CHARIS high contrast imaging spectrograph2014
Author(s)
Tyler Groff, N. J. Kasdin, Mary A. Limbach, Michael Galvin, Michael A. Carr, Gillian Knapp, Timothy Brandt, Craig Loomis, Norm Jarosik, Kyle Mede, Michael W. McElwain, Markus Janson, Olivier Guyon, Nemanja Jovanovic, Naruhisa Takato, Frantz Martinache, Masahiko Hayashi
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume: 9147
Pages: 1-10
DOI
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[Journal Article] Development and recent results from the Subaru coronagraphic extreme adaptive optics system2014
Author(s)
N. Jovanovic , O. Guyon , F. Martinache, C. Clergeon , G. Singh, T. Kudo, K. Newman, J. Kuhn, E. Serabyn, N. Barnard, P. Tuthill, P. Stewart, E. Huby, G. Perrin, S. Lacour, S. Vievard, N. Murakami, O. Fumika, Y. Minowa, Y. Hayano, J. White, O. Lai, F. Marchis, G. Duchene, T. Kotani, J. Woillez
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the SPIE
Volume: 9147
Pages: 1-11
DOI
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