Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with vortex fiber nulling

Daniel Echeverri; Garreth Ruane; Benjamin Calvin; Nemanja Jovanovic; Jacques-Robert Delorme; Jason Wang; Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer; Dimitri Mawet; Eugene Serabyn; J. Kent Wallace; Stefan Martin

doi:10.1117/12.2563142

13 December 2020 Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with vortex fiber nulling

Daniel Echeverri, Garreth Ruane, Benjamin Calvin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Jacques-Robert Delorme, Jason Wang, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, Dimitri Mawet, Eugene Serabyn, J. Kent Wallace, Stefan Martin

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Proceedings Volume 11446, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII; 1144619 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563142
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Vortex Fiber Nulling (VFN) is an interferometric method for suppressing starlight to detect and spectroscopically characterize exoplanets. It relies on a vortex phase mask and single-mode fiber to reject starlight while simultaneously coupling up to 20% of the planet light at separations of ⪅ 1λ/D, thereby enabling spectroscopic characterization of a large population of RV and transit-detected planets, among others, that are inaccessible to conventional coronagraphs. VFN has been demonstrated in the lab at visible wavelengths and here we present the latest results of these experiments. This includes polychromatic nulls of 5 10⁻⁴ in 10% bandwidth light centered around 790 nm. An upgraded testbed has been designed and is being built in the lab now; we also present a status update on that work here. Finally, we present preliminary K-band (2 micron) fiber nulling results with the infrared mask that will be used on-sky as part of a VFN mode for the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer Instrument in 2021.

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Daniel Echeverri, Garreth Ruane, Benjamin Calvin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Jacques-Robert Delorme, Jason Wang, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, Dimitri Mawet, Eugene Serabyn, J. Kent Wallace, and Stefan Martin "Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with vortex fiber nulling", Proc. SPIE 11446, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII, 1144619 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563142

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