Our lab attended the 233rd AAS Meeting in drizzly Seattle, Washington in early January. Dean Keithly presented his poster titled “Blind Search Single-Visit Exoplanet Direct Imaging Yield for Space Based Telescopes.” Jacob Shapiro presented his poster “Optical Design of a
Prototype Module of Self-Assembling Space Telescope
Progress is being made on our 2018 NIAC Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms! We have managed to draft a potential model of our proposed segment design. This model (while incomplete) demonstrates we can package the key subsystems of a spacecraft
Michael Wang Wins ASEE St. Lawrence Section Best Poster Award
Michael Wang (SIOSlab MEng 2018) presented at the St. Lawrence Section meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference and was awarded the best graduate poster award for his work on Coded Aperture Ranging.
SIOSlab Selected for 2018 NIAC
Our proposal: Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms has been selected for the 2018 NIAC Phase I. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program seeks to develop radical and revolutionary new concepts that could potentially lead to wholly new classes of
Direct Imaging Post-Processing Research Update
We have been working on using Common Spatial Pattern filtering in a novel method to detect exoplanets from direct imaging. Using just time-series data, CSP filtering can identify a known exoplanet, Beta Pictorus b (in image below). Right now, work
New Starshade Additions to EXOSIMS
I have been working recently on the integration of a new starshade class into EXOSIMS which can simulate starshade motion with higher fidelity. The humbly named SotoStarshade class integrates the circular restricted three body equations of motion to find the
A 30 Second History of Exoplanet Exploration
I recently updated a video I’ve been showing for the last few years in public talks on exoplanets. This shows the current population of known exoplanets, in order of discovery and coded by discovery method. The code to generate this
SGRS at Cornell, January 20th 2017
SIOSLab attended the 2017 Sibley Graduate Research Symposium (SGRS) held in Upson Hall at Cornell University on January 20th, 2017. Joyce Fang presented her talk titled “Misalignment Retrieval of an Off-axis Parabolic Mirror using Kalman Filtering.” Jacob Shapiro presented his
NASA Deputy Administrator Visits SIOSlab
As part of her recent visit to the Sibley School, NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman stopped by SIOSlab to hear about our work. We were all very excited to share our research, especially as so much of our support comes
SPIE DSS 2015
We attended SPIE DSS 2015 Defense, Security and Sensing conference in Baltimore, MD. Joyce Fang presented her poster Automated Optical System Alignment and Low Order Wavefront Sensing in the poster session.