Search Results - "Keller, Christoph U"
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Improved Companion Mass Limits for Sirius A with Thermal Infrared Coronagraphy Using a Vector-apodizing Phase Plate and Time-domain Starlight-subtraction Techniques
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-05-2023)“…Abstract We use observations with the infrared-optimized Magellan Adaptive Optics (MagAO) system and Clio camera in 3.9 μ m light to place stringent mass…”
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Mapping atmospheric aerosols with a citizen science network of smartphone spectropolarimeters
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-10-2014)“…To assess the impact of atmospheric aerosols on health, climate, and air traffic, aerosol properties must be measured with fine spatial and temporal sampling…”
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Optimization-based wavefront sensorless adaptive optics for multiphoton microscopy
Published in Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision (01-06-2014)“…Optical aberrations have detrimental effects in multiphoton microscopy. These effects can be curtailed by implementing model-based wavefront sensorless…”
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Planetary science: In search of biosignatures
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Semidefinite programming for model-based sensorless adaptive optics
Published in Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision (01-11-2012)“…Wavefront sensorless adaptive optics methodologies are widely considered in scanning fluorescence microscopy where direct wavefront sensing is challenging. In…”
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ON-SKY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF THE VECTOR APODIZING PHASE PLATE CORONAGRAPH ON MagAO/Clio2
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-01-2017)“…ABSTRACT We report on the performance of a vector apodizing phase plate coronagraph that operates over a wavelength range of 2-5 m and is installed in…”
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Towards real-time contrast control for direct exoplanet imaging with adaptive optics
Published in Optics communications (01-01-2025)“…Adaptive Optics (AO) is a crucial ingredient for diffraction-limited imaging in science and engineering. While most AO control is linear, non-linear approaches…”
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Evaluation of Phase-Diversity Techniques for Solar-Image Restoration
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In search of biosignatures
Published in Nature (London) (01-03-2012)“…An analysis of the intensity and polarization of sunlight reflected by Earth reveals signatures of life on our planet. What prospects are there for using…”
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Detailed study of a rare hyperluminous rotating disk in an Einstein ring 10 billion years ago
Published in Nature astronomy (01-09-2024)“…Hyperluminous infrared galaxies (HyLIRGs) are the rarest and most extreme starbursts and found only in the distant Universe ( z ≳ 1). They have intrinsic…”
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Using the generalised-optical differentiation wavefront sensor for laser guide star wavefront sensing
Published 03-12-2020“…Laser guide stars (LGS) are used in many adaptive optics systems to extend sky coverage. The most common wavefront sensor used in combination with a LGS is a…”
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Self-optimizing adaptive optics control with Reinforcement Learning for high-contrast imaging
Published 24-08-2021“…Current and future high-contrast imaging instruments require extreme adaptive optics (XAO) systems to reach contrasts necessary to directly image exoplanets…”
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Self-optimizing adaptive optics control with Reinforcement Learning
Published 03-12-2020“…Current and future high-contrast imaging instruments require extreme Adaptive Optics (XAO) systems to reach contrasts necessary to directly image exoplanets…”
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Spectropolarimetry of life: airborne measurements from a hot air balloon
Published 03-08-2022“…Does life exist outside our Solar System? A first step towards searching for life outside our Solar System is detecting life on Earth by using remote sensing…”
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Spatial polarization modulators: distinguishing diffraction effects from spatial polarization modulation
Published 05-08-2021“…Proc. SPIE 11833, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing X, 118330M (1 August 2021) Are we alone? In our quest to find life beyond Earth, we use our own…”
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Rigorous vector wave propagation for arbitrary flat media
Published 24-11-2018“…Proceedings Volume 10407, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing VIII; 1040709 (2017) Precise modelling of the (off-axis) point spread function (PSF) to…”
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A universal smartphone add-on for portable spectroscopy and polarimetry: iSPEX 2
Published 02-06-2020“…Proc. SPIE 11389, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XII, 113892K (20 May 2020) Spectropolarimetry is a powerful technique for remote…”
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Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht: The Last Years
Published 19-08-2012“…I describe the last years of the 370-year long life of the Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht, which was the second-oldest university observatory in the world and…”
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Improved companion mass limits for Sirius A with thermal infrared coronagraphy using a vector-apodizing phase plate and time-domain starlight-subtraction techniques
Published 09-03-2023“…We use observations with the infrared-optimized MagAO system and Clio camera in 3.9 $\mu$m light to place stringent mass constraints on possible undetected…”
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