Circumstellar disks and planets: Science cases for next-generation optical/infrared long-baseline interferometers

S Wolf, F Malbet, R Alexander, JP Berger… - The Astronomy and …, 2012 - Springer
We present a review of the interplay between the evolution of circumstellar disks and the
formation of planets, both from the perspective of theoretical models and dedicated …

Keck interferometer nuller data reduction and on-sky performance

MM Colavita, E Serabyn, R Millan-Gabet… - Publications of the …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We describe the Keck Interferometer nuller theory of operation, data reduction,
and on-sky performance, particularly as it applies to the nuller exozodiacal dust key science …

Update on the preliminary design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy

RD Stelter, AJ Skemer, S Sallum… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
SCALES (Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2-5 micron high-
contrast lenslet integral-field spectrograph (IFS) driven by exoplanet characterization …

The keck interferometer nuller

E Serabyn, B Mennesson, MM Colavita… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Keck Interferometer Nuller (KIN), the first operational separated-aperture
infrared nulling interferometer, was designed to null the mid-infrared emission from nearby …

[图书][B] Aperture synthesis: methods and applications to optical astronomy

SK Saha - 2010 - books.google.com
This book deals with the fundamentals of stellar interferometry with emphasis on aperture
synthesis using sparse array of telescopes particularly at optical/IR wavelengths, the origin …

An interferometric study of the Fomalhaut inner debris disk. II. Keck Nuller mid-infrared observations

B Mennesson, O Absil, J Lebreton… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on high-contrast mid-infrared observations of Fomalhaut obtained with the Keck
Interferometer Nuller (KIN) showing a small resolved excess over the level expected from …

Fringe measurement and control for the Keck interferometer

MM Colavita, AJ Booth… - Publications of the …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper describes the measurement and control algorithms of the near-infrared fringe
trackers of the Keck Interferometer (KI). The fringe trackers provide fringe amplitude …

The structure of the β Leonis debris disk

ND Stock, KYL Su, W Liu, PM Hinz… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine nulling interferometry at 10 μm using the MMT and Keck Telescopes with
spectroscopy, imaging, and photometry from 3 to 100 μm using Spitzer to study the debris …

The Keck Interferometer

MM Colavita, PL Wizinowich, RL Akeson… - Publications of the …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Keck Interferometer (KI) combined the two 10 m WM Keck Observatory
telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, as a long-baseline near-and mid-infrared interferometer …

51 Ophiuchus: a possible beta Pictoris analog measured with the Keck Interferometer Nuller

CC Stark, MJ Kuchner, WA Traub… - the Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations of the 51 Ophiuchi circumstellar disk made with the Keck
interferometer operating in nulling mode at N band. We model these data simultaneously …