Every year or so, I update my ‘history of exoplanet exploration’ animation, which shows the detections of exoplanets in (roughly) the order of their discovery by plotting the host star locations in sequence. This year, I decided that I wanted
JATIS Paper Published
“Analytical model for starshade formation flying with applications to exoplanet direct imaging observation scheduling,” by Gabriel Soto, Dmitry Savransky, and Rhonda Morgan has been published in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, and is available via open access
On Proposals
At a recent group meeting, we discussed responding to funding opportunities from US funding agencies (mostly NASA). A recording of the discussion is available below. As always, all opinions are strictly my own.
Congratulations Dr. Shapiro!
Congratulations to Jacob Shapiro for successfully completing his B exam. A copy of his talk, titled “Using Modern Mathematical and Computational Tools for Image Processing”, is available here, or watch his presentation below.
MAE Seminar
I had the privilege of giving the MAE department seminar on October 20th, titled “Engineering the Search for New Worlds.” A recording of the talk is available below, and the slides can be accessed here.
Fun with Git
I’ve been exploring use of some slightly more advanced git functionality to help with project organization, and have sketched out some notes for cool things you can do with git submodules, and my personal associated use cases:
EXOSIMS – WFIRST Publication by Dean Keithly now in JATIS
Dean Keithly and the hard working maintainers of EXOSIMS finally have a new publication validating the number of exoplanets detectable via direct imaging by the WFIRST coronagraph. The paper includes planet population, observation time optimization, and scheduling of these observations.
GPI 2.0 Is a Go!
We are very happy to announce that we have secured funding from the NSF and HSF for an upgrade of the Gemini Planet Imager. Once commissioned at Gemini North in Hawaii in 2022, GPI 2.0 will be even more sensitive
Photon Sources Diagram
This is a diagram from Dean Keithly’s admission to candidacy exam slide deck outlining the major light sources included in EXOSIMS and our model of WFIRST.
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2019
The SPIE Optics + Photonics conference took place August 11 – 16 in San Diego. The SIOSLab attended, and presented two talks: Optical design of a modular segmented space telescope and Exploration of the dynamical phase space of stars with known planets.