2011/04/27 by Neil Zimmerman, Douglas Brenner, Ben R. Oppenheimer +4
Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Coronagraph #Data cube #Exoplanet #Field of view #Integral field spectrograph #Pipeline (software) #Sky #Spectrograph #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Subpixel rendering #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.IM #astro-ph.SR
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/660818
35 pages, 15 figures; accepted for publication in PASP
arxiv created 2011/04/27 · openalex publication_date 2011/06/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Project 1640 is a high-contrast near-infrared instrument probing the vicinities of nearby stars through the unique combination of an integral field spectrograph with a Lyot coronagraph and a high-order adaptive optics system. The extraordinary data-reduction demands, similar to those that several new exoplanet imaging instruments will face in the near future, have been met by the novel software algorithms described herein. The Project 1640 Data Cube Extraction Pipeline (PCXP) automates the translation of 3.8 × 10 4 closely packed, coarsely sampled spectra to a data cube. We implement a robust empirical model of the spectrograph focal-plane geometry to register the detector image at subpixel precision, and we map the cube extraction. We demonstrate our ability to accurately retrieve source spectra based on an observation of Saturn's moon Titan.