SpectroPhotometric Imaging in Astronomy with Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Project Information

SPIAKID

Grant agreement ID: 835087

DOI

10.3030/835087

Project closed

EC signature date 17 July 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 109 215,00

EU contribution

€ 3 109 215,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Noise analysis and optical response of microwave kinetic inductance detectors with an optical stack

Author(s): Paul Nicaise, Jie Hu, Christine Chaumont, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Michel Piat, Hervé Geoffray, Faouzi Boussaha
Published in: Superconductor Science and Technology, Issue 37, 2025, Page(s) 085014, ISSN 0953-2048
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/ad5b25

Photon-counting with single stoichiometric TiN layer-based optical MKIDs

Author(s): Boussaha, Faouzi ; Hu, Jie; Nicaise; Martin, Jean-Marc; Chaumont, Christine; Dung, Pham Viet; Firminy, Josiane ; Reix, Florent ; Bonifacio, Piercarlo; Piat, Michel; Geoffray, Hervé
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 122, 2023, Page(s) id.212602, 5 pp., ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0147584

High-speed stars

Author(s): P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, L. Monaco, L. Sbordone, M. Spite, A. Mucciarelli, P. François, L. Lombardo, A. d. M. Matas Pinto
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 684, 2024, Page(s) A91, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347865

<i>Gaia</i> DR3 high radial velocity stars: Genuine fast-moving objects or outliers?

Author(s): D. Katz, A. Gómez, E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, C. Hottier, O. Vanel, C. Soubiran, P. Panuzzo, D. Chosson, P. Sartoretti, R. Lallement, P. Di Matteo, M. Haywood, N. Robichon, S. Baker, A. Barbier, D. Bas
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 704, 2025, Page(s) A294, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556602

Design and Simulation of TiN-Based Suspended Meander Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) for Visible and Near-Infrared Astronomy Applications

Author(s): Appavou, Maria ; Ribeiro, Lucas ; Nicaise, Paul ; Hu, Jie ; Martin, Jean-Marc ; Firminy, Josiane ; Chaumont, Christine ; Bonifacio, Piercarlo ; Boussaha, Faouzi
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Issue June 2024, 2024, Page(s) 153, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-024-03138-6

Unlocking the mystery of strontium synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars

Author(s): T. M. Sitnova, L. Lombardo, L. I. Mashonkina, F. Rizzuti, G. Cescutti, C. J. Hansen, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, A. Koch-Hansen, G. Meynet, R. Fernandes de Melo
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 699, 2025, Page(s) A262, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555073

The Gaia <scp>RVS</scp> Benchmark Stars. <scp>III</scp>. Confirmed and New High Radial Velocity Stars From Gaia <scp>DR3</scp>

Author(s): Elisabetta Caffau, David Katz, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Ana Gómez, Rosine Lallement, Paola Sartoretti, Frédéric Royer, Pasquale Panuzzo, Monique Spite, Patrick François, Nicolas Leclerc, Luca Sbordone
Published in: Astronomische Nachrichten, Issue 346, 2025, ISSN 0004-6337
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/asna.70025

The accretion history of the Milky Way – II. Internal kinematics of globular clusters and of dwarf galaxies

Author(s): Francois Hammer, Jianling Wang, Gary A Mamon, Marcel S Pawlowski, Yanbin Yang, Yongjun Jiao, Hefan Li, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Haifeng Wang
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 527, 2023, Page(s) 2718-2733, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2922

The most metal-poor stars

Author(s): Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Patrick François, Monique Spite
Published in: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 0935-4956
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-025-00159-2

Development of MKIDs in the Optical and Near-Infrared Bands for SPIAKID

Author(s): Hu Jie, Nicaise Paul, Boussaha Faouzi, Martin Jean-Marc, Chaumont Christine, Marret Alexine, Reix Florent, Firminy Josiane, Vacelet Thibaut, Pham Viet Dung, Piat Michel, Caffau Elisabetta, Bonifacio P
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Issue 214, 2024, Page(s) 113-124, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-023-03018-5

The WEAVE-TwiLight-Survey: expanding WEAVE’s reach to bright and low-surface-density targets with a novel observing mode

Author(s): Thomas Hajnik, Nicholas A Walton, Giuseppe D’Ago, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Gavin Dalton, Lilian Domínguez-Palmero, Emanuel Gafton, Mike J Irwin, Sergio Picó, David Terrett, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Rubé
Published in: RAS Techniques and Instruments, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2752-8200
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzaf060

Investigation of quasi-particle relaxation in strongly disordered superconductor resonators

Author(s): Hu, Jie; Matin, Jean-Mar; Nicaise, Paul; Boussaha, Faouzi; Chaumont, Christine; Piat, Michel ; Pham, Viet Dung; Bonifacio, Piercarlo
Published in: Superconductor Science and Technology, Issue May 2024, 2024, Page(s) id.055014, 13 pp., ISSN 0953-2048
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/ad3f80

VLTI/GRAVITY upper limit on near-infrared emission from the nearby 33 <i>M</i>_⊙ black hole Gaia BH3

Author(s): Pierre Kervella, Pasquale Panuzzo, Alexandre Gallenne, Antoine Mérand, Frédéric Arenou, Elisabetta Caffau, Sylvestre Lacour, Tsevi Mazeh, Berry Holl, Carine Babusiaux, Nicolas Nardetto, Maïca Clav
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 695, 2025, Page(s) L1, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453535

A Sequoia stellar candidate with very high ⁷Li and ⁹Be

Author(s): L. Monaco, E. Caffau, P. Molaro, P. Bonifacio, G. Cescutti
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 697, 2025, Page(s) A75, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453574

Investigation of Optical Coupling in Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors using Superconducting Reflective Plates

Author(s): Paul Nicaise,Jie Hu,Jean-Marc Martin, Samir Beldi, Christine Chaumont , Piercarlo Bonifacio, Michel Piat,Hervé Geoffray, Faouzi Boussaha
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Issue vol. 209, issue 5-6, 2022, Page(s) pp. 1242-1248, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-022-02789-7

Large inverse transient phase response of titanium-nitride-based microwave kinetic inductance detectors

Author(s): Jie Hu,Faouzi Boussaha,Jean-Marc Martin, Paul Nicaise, Christine Chaumont, Samir Beldi, Michel Piat,Piercarlo Bonifacio
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 119, 2021, Page(s) 212601, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0074103

MKIDs : Nouveaux détecteurs supraconducteurs ultrasensibles pour l’astronomie

Author(s): Faouzi Boussaha, Jie Hu, Jean-Marc Martin, Christine Chaumont, Paul Nicaise et Piercarlo Bonifacio
Published in: Photoniques, Issue Numéro 117, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 46-50, ISSN 1629-4475
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/photon/202211746

Detailed chemical abundance analysis of metal-poor turn-off stars: One with [Fe/H] &amp;lt; –4 and three with [Fe/H] &amp;lt; –3

Author(s): Takuma Suda, Patrick François, Shinya Wanajo, Elisabetta Caffau, Wako Aoki, Piercarlo Bonifacio
Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Issue 77, 2025, Page(s) 1006-1015, ISSN 0004-6264
Publisher: Astronomical Society of Japan
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaf078

Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES)

Author(s): Arthur Alencastro Puls, Jan Kuske, Camilla Juul Hansen, Linda Lombardo, Giorgio Visentin, Almudena Arcones, Raphaela Fernandes de Melo, Moritz Reichert, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Stephan
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 693, 2025, Page(s) A294, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452537

The accretion history of the Milky Way

Author(s): Yanbin Yang, Elisabetta Caffau, Piercarlo Bonifacio, François Hammer, Jianling Wang, Gary A. Mamon
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, Page(s) A363, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451233

The <i>Gaia</i> RVS benchmark stars

Author(s): E. Caffau, D. Katz, A. Gómez, P. Bonifacio, R. Lallement, P. Sartoretti, L. Sbordone, M. Spite, A. Mucciarelli, R. Ibata, L. Chemin, F. Thévenin, P. Panuzzo, N. Leclerc, P. François, H.-G. Ludwig,
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 683, 2024, Page(s) A72, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348191

Development of TiN Vacuum-Gap Capacitor Lumped-Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Author(s): Boussaha, Faouzi ; Beldi, Samir ; Monfardini, Alessandro ; Hu, Jie ; Calvo, Martino ; Chaumont, Christine ; Levy-Bertrand, Florence ; Vacelet, Thibaut ; Traini, Alessandro ; Firminy, Josiane ; Piat, Michel ; Reix, Florent
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics,, Issue vol. 199, issue 3-4, 2020, Page(s) 994-1003, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-019-02309-0

Unveiling the nature of HE 0107–5240: a long period binary CEMP-no star with [Fe/H] of –5.56

Author(s): E. Caffau, M. Steffen, P. Molaro, P. Bonifacio, N. Christlieb, D. S. Aguado, J. I. González Hernández, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, L. Monaco, M. Limongi, A. Chieffi, A. Falla, L. Roberti, A. J. Gallagher
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 704, 2025, Page(s) A238, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556891

SDSS J102915.14+172927.9: Revisiting the chemical pattern

Author(s): E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Monaco, M. Steffen, L. Sbordone, M. Spite, P. François, A. J. Gallagher, H.-G. Ludwig, P. Molaro
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, Page(s) A245, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452079

The Pristine survey

Author(s): P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, P. François, N. Martin, R. Ibata, Z. Yuan, G. Kordopatis, J. I. González Hernández, D. S. Aguado, G. F. Thomas, A. Viswanathan, E. Dodd, F. Gran, E. Starkenburg, C. Lardo,
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 695, 2025, Page(s) A113, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451517

Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES)

Author(s): L. Lombardo, C. J. Hansen, F. Rizzuti, G. Cescutti, L. I. Mashonkina, P. François, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, A. Alencastro Puls, R. Fernandes de Melo, A. J. Gallagher, Á. Skúladóttir, A. J. Koch-Ha
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 693, 2025, Page(s) A293, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452283

Investigation of reflection-based measurements of microwave kinetic inductance detectors in the optical bands

Author(s): Hu, Jie ; Boussaha, Faouzi ; Nicaise, Paul ; Chaumont, Christine ; Appavou, Maria ; Dung Pham, Viet ; Piat, Michel
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 124, 2024, Page(s) 242602, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0207817

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release <i>Gaia</i> astrometry

Author(s): null null, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh, F. Arenou, B. Holl, E. Caffau, A. Jorissen, C. Babusiaux, P. Gavras, J. Sahlmann, U. Bastian, Ł. Wyrzykowski, L. Eyer, N. Leclerc, N. Bauchet, A. Bombrun, N. Mowlavi,
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 686, 2024, Page(s) L2, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449763

The 33 <i>M</i>_⊙ black hole <i>Gaia</i> BH3 is part of the disrupted ED-2 star cluster

Author(s): E. Balbinot, E. Dodd, T. Matsuno, C. Lardo, A. Helmi, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh, B. Holl, E. Caffau, A. Jorissen, C. Babusiaux, P. Gavras, Ł. Wyrzykowski, L. Eyer, N. Leclerc, A. Bombrun, N. Mowlavi, G. M
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 687, 2024, Page(s) L3, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450425

The Pristine survey

Author(s): Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg, Zhen Yuan, Morgan Fouesneau, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Francesca De Angeli, Felipe Gran, Martin Montelius, Samuel Rusterucci, René Andrae, Michele Bellazzini, Paolo M
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 692, 2024, Page(s) A115, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347633

MINCE

Author(s): F. Lucertini, L. Sbordone, E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Monaco, G. Cescutti, R. Lallement, P. François, E. Spitoni, C. J. Hansen, A. J. Korn, A. Kučinskas, A. Mucciarelli, L. Magrini, L. Lombardo, M.
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 695, 2025, Page(s) A36, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452964

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (2)

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SUPERCONDUCTING LC-TYPE RESONATOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATOR THUS OBTAINED

Application/Publication number: 20 19083740
Date: 2019-12-04
Applicant(s): CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SUPERCONDUCTING LC-TYPE RESONATOR AND SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATOR THUS OBTAINED

Application/Publication number: 20 19083740
Date: 2019-12-04
Applicant(s): OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS