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28 August 2014 Archival legacy investigations of circumstellar environments: overview and first results
Élodie Choquet, Laurent Pueyo, J. Brendan Hagan, Elena Gofas-Salas, Abhijith Rajan, Christine Chen, Marshall D. Perrin, John Debes, David Golimowski, Dean C. Hines, Mamadou N'Diaye, Glenn Schneider, Dimitri Mawet, Christian Marois, Rémi Soummer
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Proceedings Volume 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 914357 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056672
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Abstract
We are currently conducting a comprehensive and consistent re-processing of archival HST-NICMOS coronagraphic surveys using advanced PSF subtraction methods, entitled the Archival Legacy Investigations of Circumstellar Environments program (ALICE, HST/AR 12652). This virtual campaign of about 400 targets has already produced numerous new detections of previously unidentified point sources and circumstellar structures. We present five newly spatially resolved debris disks revealed in scattered light by our analysis of the archival data. These images provide new views of material around young solar-type stars at ages corresponding to the period of terrestrial planet formation in our solar system. We have also detected several new candidate substellar companions, for which there are ongoing followup campaigns (HST/WFC3 and VLT/SINFONI in ADI mode). Since the methods developed as part of ALICE are directly applicable to future missions (JWST, AFTA coronagraph) we emphasize the importance of devising optimal PSF subtraction methods for upcoming coronagraphic imaging missions. We describe efforts in defining direct imaging high-level science products (HLSP) standards that can be applicable to other coronagraphic campaigns, including ground-based (e.g., Gemini Planet Imager), and future space instruments (e.g., JWST). ALICE will deliver a first release of HLSPs to the community through the MAST archive at STScI in 2014.
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Élodie Choquet, Élodie Choquet, Laurent Pueyo, Laurent Pueyo, J. Brendan Hagan, J. Brendan Hagan, Elena Gofas-Salas, Elena Gofas-Salas, Abhijith Rajan, Abhijith Rajan, Christine Chen, Christine Chen, Marshall D. Perrin, Marshall D. Perrin, John Debes, John Debes, David Golimowski, David Golimowski, Dean C. Hines, Dean C. Hines, Mamadou N'Diaye, Mamadou N'Diaye, Glenn Schneider, Glenn Schneider, Dimitri Mawet, Dimitri Mawet, Christian Marois, Christian Marois, Rémi Soummer, Rémi Soummer, } "Archival legacy investigations of circumstellar environments: overview and first results", Proc. SPIE 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 914357 (28 August 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056672; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056672
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