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Instrument Projects

Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics Project (SCExAO)
The Roman Coronagraph
Second-Generation Instruments on TMT: Planetary Systems Instrument (PSI) and MICHI (Thermal Infrared Coronagraphic Instrument)

(Some) Current and Recent Collaborators


Olivier Guyon
Brianna Lacy

Tim Brandt
Yiting Li

Adam Burrows
Christian Marois
Jeff Chilcote
Kellen Lawson
Jeremy Kasdin
Motohide Tamura
Meredith MacGregor
Scott Kenyon

Current Students and Postdocs


Mona El Morsy - postdoctoral fellow (high-contrast imaging technology development; OASIS survey)

Erica Dykes - PhD student (high-contrast imaging and polarimetry of protoplanetary disks)
Danielle Bovie - PhD student (high-contrast imaging characterization of planets and brown dwarfs with OASIS)
Jie Li - PhD student (discovery of new exoplanets from astrometry, radial-velocity, and high-contrast imaging)

Tools/Resources


Data Reduction Pipelines
  • CHARIS Data Processing Pipeline (data cubes to image processing/analysis)
  • CHARIS Data Reduction Pipeline (converting raw data into data cubes)
  • GPI Data Reduction Pipeline
  • PyKLIP Data Reduction Package
  • VIP Data Reduction Package
  • The Roman Coronagraph Instrument Science Tools
Planet Evolution/Atmosphere Models
  • Spiegel & Burrows (2012), hot/warm/cold start planet luminosity evolution models
  • Madhusudhan, Burrows, & Currie (2011)/Currie, Burrows et al. (2011) thick cloud atmosphere models
  • Various Theoretical Spectra and Evolutionary Models (COND, DUSTY, BT-SETTL)
Stellar Evolution Models
  • Baraffe et al. (1998) (0.02-1.5 solar masses)
  • Siess et al. (2000)
Data Archives
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • Keck Observatory
  • European Southern Observatory (e.g. VLT)
  • Gemini Observatories

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