First On-Sky High Contrast Imaging with an Apodizing Phase Plate (2007)
Kenworthy, Matthew A., Codona, Johanan L., Hinz, Philip M., Angel, J. Roger P., Heinze, Ari, Sivanandam, Suresh
We present the first astronomical observations obtained with an Apodizing Phase Plate (APP). The plate is designed to suppress the stellar diffraction pattern by 5 magnitudes from 2-9 lambda/D over a...
High Contrast L' Band Adaptive Optics Imaging to Detect Extrasolar Planets (2006)
Heinze, Ari, Hinz, Phil, Sivanandam, Suresh, Apai, Daniel, Meyer, Michael
We are carrying out a survey to search for giant extrasolar planets around nearby, moderate-age stars in the mid-infrared L' and M bands (3.8 and 4.8 microns, respectively), using the Clio camera...