Ultimate Angular Resolution Astrophysics with kernel-phase and full-aperture interferometry

Project Information

KERNEL

Grant agreement ID: 683029

DOI 10.3030/683029

Project closed

EC signature date 20 July 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 31 March 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 717 811,00

EU contribution € 1 717 811,00

Coordinated by

OBSERVATOIRE DE LA COTE D'AZUR (OCA)
France

Publications

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Robust observables for high-contrast detection at small angular separation

Author(s): Laugier, Romain
Published in: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03052311, 2020
Publisher: Université Côte d'Azur

Kernel. Application and scientific potentials of full pupil interferometry : Statistical analysis of kernel observables

Author(s): Ceau, Alban
Published in: "Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]. Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. English. ⟨NNT : 2020COAZ4035⟩", Issue 2, 2020
Publisher: Université Côte d'Azur

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Angular differential kernel phases

Author(s): Romain Laugier, Frantz Martinache, Nick Cvetojevic, David Mary, Alban Ceau, Mamadou N’Diaye, Jens Kammerer, Julien Lozi, Olivier Guyon, Coline Lopez
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 636, 2020, Page(s) A21, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937121

Astronomical Applications of Multi-Core Fiber Technology

Author(s): Nemanja Jovanovic; Robert J. Harris; Nick Cvetojevic
Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics, 2020, ISSN 1558-4542
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2020.2975636

Kernel nullers for an arbitrary number of apertures

Author(s): Romain Laugier, Nick Cvetojevic, Frantz Martinache
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 642, 2020, Page(s) A202, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038866

First on-sky demonstration of an integrated-photonic nulling interferometer: the GLINT instrument

Author(s): Barnaby Norris; Nick Cvetojevic; Tiphaine Lagadec; Nemanja Jovanovic; Simon Gross; Alexander Arriola; Thomas Gretzinger; Marc-Antoine Martinod; Olivier Guyon; Olivier Guyon; Julien Lozi; Michael J. Withford; Jon Lawrence; Peter G. Tuthill
Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 6, 2019, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3277

Kernel-phase analysis: Aperture modeling prescriptions that minimize calibration errors

Author(s): Frantz Martinache, Alban Ceau, Romain Laugier, Jens Kammerer, Mamadou N’Diaye, David Mary, Nick Cvetojevic, Coline Lopez
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 636, 2020, Page(s) A72, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936981

Calibration of the island effect: Experimental validation of closed-loop focal plane wavefront control on Subaru/SCExAO

Author(s): M. N’Diaye, F. Martinache, N. Jovanovic, J. Lozi, O. Guyon, B. Norris, A. Ceau, D. Mary
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 610, 2018, Page(s) A18, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731985

Fine cophasing of segmented aperture telescopes with ZELDA, a Zernike wavefront sensor in the diffraction-limited regime

Author(s): P. Janin-Potiron, M. N’Diaye, P. Martinez, A. Vigan, K. Dohlen, M. Carbillet
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 603, 2017, Page(s) A23, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730686

Recovering saturated images for high dynamic kernel-phase analysis

Author(s): R. Laugier, F. Martinache, A. Ceau, D. Mary, M. N’Diaye, J.-L. Beuzit
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 623, 2019, Page(s) A164, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834387

Kernel-nulling for a robust direct interferometric detection of extrasolar planets

Author(s): Frantz Martinache, Michael J. Ireland
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 619, 2018, Page(s) A87, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832847

Kernel phase imaging with VLT/NACO: high-contrast detection of new candidate low-mass stellar companions at the diffraction limit

Author(s): Jens Kammerer, Michael J Ireland, Frantz Martinache, Julien H Girard
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 486/1, 2019, Page(s) 639-654, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz882

Visible and Near-infrared Laboratory Demonstration of a Simplified Pyramid Wavefront Sensor

Author(s): Julien Lozi, Nemanja Jovanovic, Olivier Guyon, Mark Chun, Shane Jacobson, Sean Goebel, Frantz Martinache
Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Issue 131/998, 2019, Page(s) 044503, ISSN 0004-6280
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab046a

Kernel-phase detection limits

Author(s): A. Ceau, D. Mary, A. Greenbaum, F. Martinache, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Laugier, M. N’Diaye
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 630, 2019, Page(s) A120, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935247

Building hybridized 28-baseline pupil-remapping photonic interferometers for future high resolution imaging

Author(s): Nick Cvetojevic; Barnaby Norris; Simon Gross; Nemanja Jovanovic; Alexander Arriola; Sylvestre Lacour; Takayuki Kotani; Jon S. Lawrence; Michael J. Withford; Peter G. Tuthill
Published in: Applied Optics, Issue Volume 60, issue 19, 2021, ISSN 1559-128X
Publisher: OPTICA PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1364/ao.422729

Mid-infrared photometry of the T Tauri triple system with kernel phase interferometry

Author(s): J. Kammerer, M. Kasper, M. J. Ireland, R. Köhler, R. Laugier, F. Martinache, R. Siebenmorgen, M. E. van den Ancker, R. van Boekel, T. M. Herbst, E. Pantin, H.-U. Käufl, D. J. M. Petit dit de la Roche, V. D. Ivanov
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 646, 2021, Page(s) A36, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039366

Directly Determined Properties of HD 97658 from Interferometric Observations

Author(s): Tyler G. Ellis; Tabetha S. Boyajian; Kaspar von Braun; Roxanne Ligi; Denis Mourard; Diana Dragomir; Gail H. Schaefer; Chris Farrington
Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 0004-6256
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac141a

The MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO

Author(s): Alexander B. Walter; Neelay Fruitwala; Sarah Steiger; John I. Bailey; Nicholas Zobrist; Noah Swimmer; Isabel Lipartito; Jennifer Pearl Smith; Seth R. Meeker; Clint Bockstiegel; Gregoire Coiffard; Rupert Dodkins; Paul Szypryt; Paul Szypryt; Kristina K. Davis; Miguel Daal; Bruce Bumble; Giulia Collura; Olivier Guyon; Julien Lozi; Sébastien Vievard; Nemanja Jovanovic; Frantz Martinache; Thayne Curri
Published in: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03144038, Issue Volume 132, Number 1018, 2020, ISSN 1538-3873
Publisher: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/abc60f

Conference proceedings (5)

Overview of focal plane wavefront sensors to correct for the Low Wind Effect on SUBARU/SCExAO

Author(s): Vievard, Sébastien; Bos, Steven,; Cassaing, Frédéric; Ceau, Alban; Guyon, Olivier; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Keller, Christoph; Lozi, Julien; Martinache, Frantz; Mary, David; Montmerle-Bonnefois, Aurélie; Mugnier, Laurent; N'diaye, Mamadou; Norris, Barnaby; Sahoo, Ananya; Sauvage, Jean-François; Snik, Frans; Wilby, Michael,; Wong, Alison
Published in: 6th International Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2019, Jun 2019, Quebec City, Canada, Issue 2, 2019
Publisher: AO4ELT 2019

Focal plane wavefront sensing on SUBARU/SCExAO

Author(s): Sébastien Vievard; Steven P. Bos; Frédéric Cassaing; Thayne Currie; Thayne Currie; Vincent Deo; Vincent Deo; Olivier Guyon; Olivier Guyon; Olivier Guyon; Nemanja Jovanovic; Christoph U. Keller; Masen Lamb; Coline Lopez; Julien Lozi; Frantz Martinache; Kelsey Miller; Aurélie Montmerle-Bonnefois; Laurent M. Mugnier; Mamadou N'Diaye; Barnaby Norris; Ananya Sahoo; Jean-François Sauvage; Nour Skaf
Published in: Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020, Issue 4, 2020
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2562787

Interferometry in the focal plane with KERNEL

Author(s): Frantz Martinache
Published in: Proceedings of the Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes 5, 2018
Publisher: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)
DOI: 10.26698/ao4elt5.0157

Mitigate the impact of ELT architecture on AO performance: learn from today s telescopes to characterize and prevent the island effect

Author(s): Mamadou N Diaye
Published in: Proceedings of the Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes 5, 2018
Publisher: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)
DOI: 10.26698/ao4elt5.0132

SCExAO, an instrument with a dual purpose: perform cutting-edge science and develop new technologies

Author(s): Julien Lozi, Olivier Guyon, Nemanja Jovanovic, Sean Goebel, Prashant Pathak, Nour Skaf, Ananya Sahoo, Barnaby Norris, Frantz Martinache, Mamadou M'Diaye, Benjamin A. Mazin, Alex Walter, Peter Tuthill, Tomoyuki Kudo, Hajime Kawahara, Takayuki Kotani, Michael Ireland, Nick Cvetojevic, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour, Sebastien Vievard, Tyler D. Groff, Jeffrey K. Chilcote, Jeremy Kasdin, Justin Knight, Y
Published in: Adaptive Optics Systems VI, 2018, Page(s) 270, ISBN 9781-510619609
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2314282