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Article Dans Une Revue The Astronomical Journal Année : 2020

Early High-contrast Imaging Results with Keck/NIRC2-PWFS: The SR 21 Disk

Taichi Uyama
Bin Ren
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Dimitri Mawet
Garreth Ruane
  • Fonction : Auteur
Charlotte Z. Bond
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Jun Hashimoto
Michael C. Liu
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Takayuki Muto
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Jean-Baptiste Ruffio
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Nicole Wallack
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Christoph Baranec
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Brendan P. Bowler
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Elodie Choquet
Mark Chun
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Jacques-Robert Delorme
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Kevin Fogarty
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Olivier Guyon
Rebecca Jensen-Clem
Tiffany Meshkat
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Henry Ngo
Jason J. Wang
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Ji Wang
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Peter Wizinowich
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Marie Ygouf
Benjamin Zuckerman
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Résumé

High-contrast imaging of exoplanets and protoplanetary disks depends on wave front sensing and correction made by adaptive optics instruments. Classically, wave front sensing has been conducted at optical wavelengths, which made high-contrast imaging of red targets such as M-type stars or extincted T Tauri stars challenging. Keck/NIRC2 has combined near-infrared (NIR) detector technology with the pyramid wave front sensor (PWFS). With this new module we observed SR 21, a young star that is brighter at NIR wavelengths than at optical wavelengths. Compared with the archival data of SR 21 taken with the optical wave front sensing we achieved ∼20% better Strehl ratio in similar natural seeing conditions. Further post-processing utilizing angular differential imaging and reference-star differential imaging confirmed the spiral feature reported by the Very Large Telescope/Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument polarimetric observation, which is the first detection of the SR 21 spiral in total intensity at L' band. We also compared the contrast limit of our result (10-4 at 0"4 and 2 × 10-5 at 1"0) with the archival data that were taken with optical wave front sensing and confirmed the improvement, particularly at ≤0"5. Our observation demonstrates that the NIR PWFS improves AO performance and will provide more opportunities for red targets in the future.

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insu-03667035 , version 1 (13-05-2022)

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Taichi Uyama, Bin Ren, Dimitri Mawet, Garreth Ruane, Charlotte Z. Bond, et al.. Early High-contrast Imaging Results with Keck/NIRC2-PWFS: The SR 21 Disk. The Astronomical Journal, 2020, 160, ⟨10.3847/1538-3881/abc69a⟩. ⟨insu-03667035⟩
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