Kjetil Dohlen

BIGRE: a low cross-talk integral field unit tailored for extrasolar planets imaging spectroscopy (2009)

Antichi, Jacopo, Dohlen, Kjetil, Gratton, Raffaele G., Mesa, Dino, Claudi, Riccardo U., Giro, Enrico, ...

Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) represents a powerful technique for the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets through high contrast imaging, since it allows to obtain simultaneously...

Apodized Lyot Coronagraph for VLT-SPHERE: Laboratory tests and performances of a first prototype in the visible (2009)

Guerri, Géraldine, Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie, Daban, Jean-Baptiste, Abe, Lyu, Douet, Richard, Bendjoya, Philippe, ...

We present some of the High Dynamic Range Imaging activities developed around the coronagraphic test-bench of the Laboratoire A. H. Fizeau (Nice). They concern research and development of an Apodized...

Exoplanet characterization with long slit spectroscopy (2008)

Vigan, Arthur, Langlois, Maud, Moutou, Claire, Dohlen, Kjetil

Extrasolar planets observation and characterization by high contrast imaging instruments is set to be a very important subject in observational astronomy. Dedicated instruments are being developed to...

Prototyping coronagraphs for exoplanet characterization with SPHERE (2008)

Boccaletti, Anthony, Abe, Lyu, Baudrand, Jacques, Daban, Jean-Baptiste, Douet, Richard, Guerri, Geraldine, ...

The detection and characterization of extrasolar planets with SPHERE (Spectro Polarimetric High contrast Exoplanet REsearch) is challenging and in particular relies on the ability of a coronagraph to...

End to End Simulation of AO-assisted coronagraphic differential imaging: estimation of performance for SPHERE (2008)

Boccaletti, Anthony, Carbillet, Marcel, Fusco, Thierry, Mouillet, David, Langlois, Maud, Moutou, Claire, ...

SPHERE (Spectro Polarimetric High contrast Exoplanet REsearch), the planet finder instrument for the VLT is designed to study relatively bright extrasolar giant planets around young or nearby stars....

Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph Working Without Lyot Stop (2008)

N'Diaye, Mamadou, Dohlen, Kjetil, Cuevas, Salvador

In the context of high contrast imaging, we propose to evaluate the performance of the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph (APLC) working without Lyot Stop, namely Stop-less Lyot Coronagraph (SLLC). This...

Apodized Lyot Coronagraph for VLT-SPHERE: Laboratory tests and performances of a first prototype in the visible (2008)

Guerri, Géraldine, Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie, Daban, Jean-Baptiste, Abe, Lyu, Douet, Richard, Bendjoya, Philippe, ...

We present some of the High Dynamic Range Imaging activities developed around the coronagraphic test-bench of the Laboratoire A. H. Fizeau (Nice). They concern research and development of an Apodized...

Apodized Lyot Coronagraph for VLT-SPHERE: Laboratory tests and performances of a first prototype in the visible (2008)

Guerri, Géraldine, Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie, Daban, Jean-Baptiste, Abe, Lyu, Douet, Richard, Bendjoya, Philippe, ...

We present some of the High Dynamic Range Imaging activities developed around the coronagraphic test-bench of the Laboratoire A. H. Fizeau (Nice). They concern research and development of an Apodized...

The SPHERE exoplanet imager: a new management paradigm? (2008)

Wildi, Francois, Beuzit, Jean-Luc, Feldt, Markus, Mouillet, David, Dohlen, Kjetil, Puget, Pascal

The SPHERE is an exo-solar planet imager, which goal is to detect giant exo-solar planets in the vicinity of bright stars and to characterize them through spectroscopic and polarimetric observations....

SPHERE ZIMPOL: overview and performance simulation (2008)

Thalmann, Christian, Schmid, Hans M., Boccaletti, Anthony, Mouillet, David, Dohlen, Kjetil, Roelfsema, Ronald, ...

The ESO planet finder instrument SPHERE will search for the polarimetric signature of the reflected light from extrasolar planets, using a VLT telescope, an extreme AO system (SAXO), a stellar...

A cryogenic dithering stage for moving SPHERE-IRDIS' detector (2008)

Rohloff, Ralf-Rainer, Blümchen, Thomas, Feldt, Markus, Naranjo, Vianak, Ramos, Jose, Müller, Klaus-Dieter, ...

This paper describes the development of the detector motion stage for the instrument SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch). The detector movement is necessary because the...

SPHERE: a planet finder instrument for the VLT (2008)

Beuzit, Jean-Luc, Feldt, Markus, Dohlen, Kjetil, Mouillet, David, Puget, Pascal, Wildi, Francois, ...

Direct detection and spectral characterization of extra-solar planets is one of the most exciting but also one of the most challenging areas in modern astronomy. The challenge consists in the very...

Spectroscopic Methods for Liquid Mirror Telescopes (2007)

Kjetil Dohlen

Different methods of spectroscopy with LMTs are described: the objective prism method (a), the parallel (b) and perpendicular (c) long slit methods, the holographic FTS method (d), and the scanning...

Conception d'un Spectromètre Interférométrique pour l'Observation Environnementale (2007)

Dohlen, Kjetil

Cette thèse décrit la conception d'un spectromètre portable pour des mesures spectrales, dans le visible et l'infrarouge proche, de cibles telles que la végétation et l'atmosphère. L'instrument...

SPHERE: A planet finder instrument for the VLT (2006)

Dohlen, Kjetil, Beuzit, Jean-Luc, Feldt, Markus, Mouillet, David, Puget, Pascal, Antichi, Jacopo, ...

The Planet Finder instrument for ESO's VLT telescope, scheduled for first light in 2010, aims to detect giant extra-solar planets in the vicinity of bright stars and to characterise the objects found...

Simulating diffractions and chromatic effects in the microlens array in searching for extrasolar planets with SPHERE IFS (2006)

Berton, Alessandro, Gratton, Raffaele, Antichi, Jacopo, Dohlen, Kjetil, Claudi, Riccardo, Feldt, Markus, ...

Observations of extrasolar planets using Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS), if coupled with an extreme Adaptive Optics system and analyzed with a Simultaneous Differential Imaging technique (SDI),...

Conception d'un Spectromètre Interférométrique pour l'Observation Environnementale (1994)

Dohlen, Kjetil

Cette thèse décrit la conception d'un spectromètre portable pour des mesures spectrales, dans le visible et l'infrarouge proche, de cibles telles que la végétation et l'atmosphère. L'instrument...

Conception d'un Spectromètre Interférométrique pour l'Observation Environnementale (1994)

Dohlen, Kjetil

Cette thèse décrit la conception d'un spectromètre portable pour des mesures spectrales, dans le visible et l'infrarouge proche, de cibles telles que la végétation et l'atmosphère. L'instrument...

Conception d'un Spectromètre Interférométrique pour l'Observation Environnementale (1994)

Dohlen, Kjetil

Cette thèse décrit la conception d'un spectromètre portable pour des mesures spectrales, dans le visible et l'infrarouge proche, de cibles telles que la végétation et l'atmosphère. L'instrument...