We are Exoplanet Technology Laboratory at Caltech. Our goal is to develop innovative technologies for studying planets around other stars (i.e. exoplanets)!!
California Institute of Techno
Joined November 2020
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Extrasolar Kuiper Belts, aka debris disks, resolved by the Hubble Space Telescope (arxiv.org/abs/2302.04273), the central gray regions are where the stars are. These belts can be 1k to 100k times fainter than their host star. 1/n
Our former intern and current collaborator @exoAS23b has won a prestigious scholarship! Congratulations, Aniket!!
Congratulations to:
Megan Li, @UCSanDiego
Joheen Chakraborty, @Columbia
Sarah Ketchersid @EmbryRiddle
Aniket Sanghi @UTAustin
Lindsey Jacobson @NCState
newsroom.usra.edu/usra-annou…
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Dimtiri Mawet wrote up a short overview of KPIC if you're curious: rdcu.be/coY1J. We think we can apply the same high spatial+spectral resolution technique on all the directly imaged planets + brown dwarf companions! More papers coming from KPIC soon!
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Our KPIC paper showing the detection and characterization of the HR 8799 planets at high spectral resolution (R~35,000) is out! Paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2107.06949. Short thread below:
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Doing spectroscopy of brown dwarf and exoplanet companions tonight with KPIC. We now have a snazzy GUI to control our instrument! Pic below we track a star on the black x so that the light of an unseen companion goes into our fibers (white x's)
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Astronomers have for the very first time measured how fast HR 8799 exoplanets are spinning. The result marks first science for our new instrument KPIC. Congrats to @semaphore_P of @Caltech, Jacques Delorme of @keckobservatory & their teams! Details 👉 keckobservatory.org/kpic
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The King of Mauna Kea Fog kept his promise: stsci.edu/cgi-bin/get-propos… #HST Cycle 29
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What a week this was! A lot of credit to @SarahCBlunt for shaping this workshop! I loved all the enthusiasm from participants to improve astro software! That really made my week
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ET-Lab welcomes our summer fellows from Caltech's SURF @CaltechSURF & WAVE programs!! We've got 8 excellent fellows this year. We are surely in for a great summer of research :D
@tvenenciano @katieetoman @exoAS23b
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Lots of people want to write astronomy software, but it's hard to get started.
I have collated some of my thoughts about how to start building astronomy software here.
christinahedges.github.io/as…
I include recommended tools, git tutorials, and demos of how to start projects. 1/2
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Happy to share @ferrerangas's first paper🎉: the biases in orbit fitting due to short orbital arcs💫(arxiv.org/abs/2103.12877 w/ @SarahCBlunt ). Quite an impressive piece of work considering most of this was done last summer over his remote summer internship. Some highlights...
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I am excited to share that I will be working with @semaphore_P, Jerry Xuan, and Dr. Dimitri Mawet on exoplanet imaging at the ET Lab as a SURF Fellow this summer!🔭😁Looking forward to the journey ahead!
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Looking forward to finding some planets this summer! 🌌🌎🌟🔭
I am excited to share that I will be working with @semaphore_P, Jerry Xuan, and Dr. Dimitri Mawet on exoplanet imaging at the ET Lab as a SURF Fellow this summer!🔭😁Looking forward to the journey ahead!