The near infrared imager and Slitless spectrograph for the James Webb space telescope. IV. Aperture masking interferometry

A Sivaramakrishnan, P Tuthill, JP Lloyd… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless
Spectrograph (JWST-NIRISS) flies a 7-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), the first such …

Performance of near-infrared high-contrast imaging methods with JWST from commissioning

J Kammerer, J Girard, AL Carter… - Space Telescopes …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will revolutionize the field of high-contrast
imaging and enable both the direct detection of Saturn-mass planets and the …

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for JWST. V. Kernel Phase Imaging and Data Analysis

J Kammerer, RA Cooper, T Vandal… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Kernel phase imaging (KPI) enables the direct detection of substellar companions and
circumstellar dust close to and below the classical (Rayleigh) diffraction limit. The high …

Spectrally dispersed kernel phase interferometry with SCExAO/CHARIS: proof of concept and calibration strategies

A Chaushev, S Sallum, J Lozi… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Kernel phase interferometry (KPI) is a data processing technique that allows for the
detection of asymmetries (such as companions or disks) in high-Strehl images, close to and …

Searching for Protoplanets around MWC 758 and MWC 480 in Br-γ Using Kernel Phase and SCExAO/CHARIS

A Chaushev, S Sallum, J Lozi, J Chilcote… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Discovering new actively accreting protoplanets is crucial to answering open questions
about planet formation. However, identifying such planets at orbital distances where they are …

Kernel phase and coronagraphy with automatic differentiation

BJS Pope, L Pueyo, Y Xin, PG Tuthill - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The accumulation of aberrations along the optical path in a telescope produces distortions
and speckles in the resulting images, limiting the performance of cameras at high angular …

Differentiable optics with∂ Lux: I—deep calibration of flat field and phase retrieval with automatic differentiation

L Desdoigts, BJS Pope, J Dennis… - Journal of Astronomical …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The sensitivity limits of space telescopes are imposed by uncalibrated errors in the point
spread function, photon-noise, background light, and detector sensitivity. These are typically …

NICMOS Kernel-phase Interferometry. I. Catalogue of Brown Dwarfs Observed in F110W and F170M

SM Factor, AL Kraus - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Filling out the dearth of detections between direct imaging and radial velocity surveys will
test theories of planet formation and (sub) stellar binarity across the full range of semimajor …

The James Webb Interferometer: Space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 m

D Blakely, D Johnstone, G Cugno… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We observed the planet-hosting system PDS 70 with the James Webb Interferometer,
JWST's Aperture Masking Interferometric (AMI) mode within NIRISS. Observing with the …

A geometric view of closure phases in interferometry

N Thyagarajan, CL Carilli - … of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2022 - cambridge.org
Closure phase is the phase of a closed-loop product of spatial coherences formed by a-
element interferometer array. Its invariance to phase corruption attributable to individual …