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Exoplanet Technology Laboratory

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Andrea obtained her B.S. from the University of Michigan, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Penn State University with her dissertation focusing on the use of precision radial velocities and photometry to find and characterize exoplanets. She works on exoplanets, instrumentation, and exoplanet instrumentation — she has been part of the HPF (Habitable-zone Planet Finder) and WIRC+POL uses a new technology called polarization grating. The 200-inch is the largest equatorial-Cassegrain telescope in operation. This configuration is optimal for high precision polarimetry since it introduces little and stable

Katelyn Horstman grew up in California and attended UCLA, where she graduated with departmental honors and received a Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics in 2021. Katelyn is currently pursuing her PhD in Astrophysics at Caltech where she is studying exomoon detection, exoplanet detection/characterization, and near-infrared instrumentation. In her free time, One of the key technologies the Exoplanet Technologies Lab run out of NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley has been developing is known as the Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization coronagraph, or PIAA.

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Caltech Astronomy Alumnus (class of 2016). Now Assistant Professor at UH.

What is the Exoplanet Technologies Lab?

I have interests in instrumentation and exoplanet characterization. I also enjoy trying to put ML algorithms into whatever I’m working on, just in case they work. As a technology demonstration, the Roman Coronagraph’s primary goal is to test technologies that have not been flown in space before. Specifically, instrument can it will test sophisticated light-blocking capabilities that are at least 10 times better than what’s currently available. November 20, 2018 Exoplanet Stepping Stones October 17, 2018 Students Build Exoplanet-Finding Telescope October 11, 2017 Giant Exoplanet Hunters: Look for Debris Disks April 18, 2017

The infrared testbed in the ET lab is equipped with a Merlin infrared camera cooled with liquid nitrogen, a series of infrared laser and broadband light sources, infrared fibers and optics (e.g. gold coated mirrors). It is used to test innovative infrared optical components and modules for our future instruments (e.g. coronagraphs, beam-shaping optics, atmospheric dispersion Josh Liberman Former Research Assistant, now graduate student at UoA.

Introduction to modern astronomy that will illustrate the accomplishments, techniques, and scientific methodology of contemporary astronomy. The course will be organized around a set of basic questions, showing how our answers have changed in response to fresh observational discoveries. Topics to be discussed will include telescopes, stars, planets, the search for life

Jerry Xuan Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Astronomy Exoplanet spectroscopy, instrumentation, astrometry, orbital dynamics.

Former Caltech postdoc. Now Data Scientist IPAC/Caltech (Pasadena, CA). The 10 weekly lab experiments include radiometry measurements, geometrical optics, polarization, optical aberrations, spectroscopy, has been developing is known CCD characterization, vacuum and cryogenic technology, infrared detector technology, adaptive optics (wavefront sensors, deformable mirrors, closed loop control) and a coronography tuturial.

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My research focuses on understanding giant exoplanet formation around stars with debris disks through high contrast imaging. I am from Northern California, I went to UCLA for my undergrad, Leiden University for my masters and PhD and back to JPL as experiments using HCST an Exoplanetary Science Initiatve Postdoctoral Fellow. Observational campaigns to image and characterize exoplanets Developing exoplanet instrumentation and technologies A new Keck Observatory instrument can determine the spin rates of exoplanets.

High contrast spectroscopy testbed

The 10 weekly lab experiments include radiometry measurements, geometrical optics, polarization, optical aberrations, spectroscopy, CCD characterization, vacuum and cryogenic technology, infrared detector technology, adaptive optics (wavefront sensors, deformable mirrors, closed loop control) and a coronography tuturial. My thesis work is to explore the potential for scalar vortex coronagraphs for exoplanet direct imaging on future space telescopes. I work on the High Contrast Spectroscopy Testbed (HCST) and at JPL on the In-Air Coronagraph Testbed (IACT) to develop new coronagraph masks and wavefront sensing and control algorithms. I am interested in aiding ground-based exoplanet characterization surveys through new instrumentation and a better understanding of the impact of Earth’s atmosphere, or tellurics, on such high-precision measurements. The former includes developing higher throughput instruments for performing transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets to study their atmospheres

The Caltech High Contrast High-Resolution Spectroscopy for Segmented Telescopes Testbed (HCST), in the ET Lab is aimed at filling a gap in technology development for future exoplanet missions, and pro- viding the US community with an academic facility to test coronagraph, spectroscopy, and wave- front control technologies for future large My thesis work is to explore the potential for scalar vortex coronagraphs for exoplanet direct imaging on future space telescopes. I work on the High Contrast Spectroscopy Testbed (HCST) and at JPL on the In-Air Coronagraph Testbed (IACT) to develop new coronagraph masks and wavefront sensing and control algorithms. Observational campaigns to image and characterize exoplanets Developing exoplanet instrumentation and technologies

I am interested in pushing new technologies for studying how planets form and evolve. Using the latest advances in high contrast imaging, high resolution spectroscopy, and long-baseline optical interferometry, I study the dynamical history and composition of Jovian-like exoplanets beyond the water ice-line to understand how they form and how they influence their planetary systems. To Arielle now works on instrumentation for direct detection of exoplanets, and specifically on the conducts coronagraphic experiments using HCST, the High Contrast Spectroscopy Testbed which is located in the ETlab. Outside of the lab, you will find her I work on the direct imaging of exoplanets, brown dwarfs and debris disks (extra solar analogs to our own Kuiper and asteroid belts). I work on a mix of instrumentation, observation and data analysis. I mostly focus on designing, commissioning and using polarimeters. Please get in touch if you want to chat!

Former Caltech Prize Postdoc. Now research scientist at NASA AMES. Caltech Welcomes Students Back to Campus, Kicks Off 2021-22 Academic Year MODHIS is based on the latest diffraction-limited single-mode fiber injection, detector, multiplexing, and calibration (Laser Frequency Comb) technologies, and will provide unprecedented capabilities to the TMT community, potentially soon

Exomoons The detection of satellites around exoplanets, or exomoons, remains a largely unexplored territory. Searching for exomoons to constrain their occurrence rates and bulk properties is important because it can provide insights into the The Polychromatic Reflective Testbed (PoRT) at the ET Lab is a testbed for demonstrating and characterizing cross-aperture nulling interferometry instrument concepts. The ET lab currently focuses on two types of cross-aperture nullers, the Vortex Fiber Nuller and the Photonic Lantern Nuller. Vortex Fiber Nuller (VFN) Fiber nulling as a means to detect and characterize

ET Lab Home / People / Sam Whitebook Sam Whitebook Graduate Student Sam Whitebook The 10 weekly lab experiments include radiometry measurements, geometrical optics, polarization, optical aberrations, spectroscopy, CCD characterization, vacuum and cryogenic technology, infrared detector technology, adaptive optics (wavefront sensors, deformable mirrors, closed loop control) and a coronography giants like Jupiter tuturial. Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229 B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass. Brown dwarfs are lighter than stars and heavier than gas giants like Jupiter. And while astronomers had

Jerry Xuan Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Astronomy Exoplanet spectroscopy, instrumentation, astrometry, orbital dynamics. Caltech Astronomy Alumnus (class of 2020). Staff Researcher as the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand.

Nicole is currently pursuing her PhD in Planetary Science at Caltech, working in both Professor Dimitri Mawet’s group (focusing on direct detection of exoplanets in protoplanetary disks) and Professor Heather Knutson’s group (focusing on atmospheric characterization of brown dwarfs and transiting gas giant planets). My research focuses on understanding giant exoplanet formation around stars with debris disks through high contrast imaging. I am from Northern California, I went to UCLA for my undergrad, Leiden University for my masters and PhD and back to JPL as an Exoplanetary Science Initiatve Postdoctoral Fellow.