Sentences with phrase «planet imager»
1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary
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We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.
Professor Close is the principal scientist of the 6.5 - meter diameter Magellan Adaptive Optics extrasolar planet imager (MagAO), located in the high Atacama Desert of Chile.
What's more, results from Keck's vortex coronagraph will help with a planet imager planned for the future Thirty Meter Telescope and with proposed NASA space missions, such as the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) and the Large UV / Optical / IR Surveyor (LUVOIR), which would use next - generation vortex coronagraphs currently being designed in Mawet's group at Caltech.
Marois is part of a group working on building a similar high - tech planet imager at the 8.1 - meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, and was pleased to see the Serabyn team's proof - of - concept.
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Yet another instrument, an imager that could spot planets orbiting distant stars, is due by the end of the year.
The team used the GROND imager at the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile to observe the planet simultaneously at seven different wavelength bands spanning the optical and near - infrared.
A group of researchers has observed the first ground - based transit observation of K2 - 3d — a potentially Earth - like extrasolar planet supposedly within the habitable zone around a bright M - dwarf host star 147 light - years away — using the multi-band imager MuSCAT on the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory's 1.88 - metre telescope.
This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstr... ▽ More The vector vortex is a coronagraphic imaging mode of the recently commissioned Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme - Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) platform on the 8 - m Subaru Telescope.
This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstration testbed ahead of the ELTs - era, with a particular emphasis on small inner - working angle (IWA) coronagraphic capabilities.
-LCB- The tests were performed using the instrument s... ▽ More We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high - contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets, obtained from tests performed at the Institute de Plan \ «etologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble facility during the integration phase of the instrument. -RCB-