Search Results - "TUTHILL, Peter"
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Radiation-driven acceleration in the expanding WR140 dust shell
Published in Nature (London) (13-10-2022)“…The Wolf–Rayet (WR) binary system WR140 is a close (0.9–16.7 mas; ref. 1 ) binary star consisting of an O5 primary and WC7 companion 2 and is known as the…”
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A close halo of large transparent grains around extreme red giant stars
Published in Nature (London) (12-04-2012)“…The dust shells of three intermediate-mass stars are observed to lie remarkably close to the photosphere and to be composed of unexpectedly large grains,…”
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Low bend loss waveguides enable compact, efficient 3D photonic chips
Published in Optics express (11-02-2013)“…We present a novel method to fabricate low bend loss femtosecond-laser written waveguides that exploits the differential thermal stabilities of laser induced…”
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Kernel Phase and Coronagraphy with Automatic Differentiation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2021)“…Abstract The accumulation of aberrations along the optical path in a telescope produces distortions and speckles in the resulting images, limiting the…”
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First on-sky demonstration of an integrated-photonic nulling interferometer: the GLINT instrument
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2020)“…ABSTRACT The characterization of exoplanets is critical to understanding planet diversity and formation, their atmospheric composition, and the potential for…”
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A new gas detection technique through cross-correlation with a complex aperiodic FBG
Published in Scientific reports (30-04-2024)“…Optical cross-correlation is a technique that can achieve both high specificity and high sensitivity when deployed as the basis for a sensing technology…”
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MAPPING THE SHORES OF THE BROWN DWARF DESERT. IV. OPHIUCHUS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2015)“…ABSTRACT We conduct a multiplicity survey of members of the Ophiuchus cloud complex with high-resolution imaging to characterize the multiple-star population…”
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Two Rings and a Marginally Resolved, 5 au Disk around LkCa 15 Identified via Near-infrared Sparse Aperture Masking Interferometry
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2022)“…Abstract Sparse aperture masking interferometry (SAM) is a high-resolution observing technique that allows for imaging at and beyond a telescope’s diffraction…”
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Nonlinear Wave Front Reconstruction from a Pyramid Sensor using Neural Networks
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-11-2023)“…Abstract The pyramid wave front sensor (PyWFS) has become increasingly popular to use in adaptive optics (AO) systems due to its high sensitivity. The main…”
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Scalable photonic-based nulling interferometry with the dispersed multi-baseline GLINT instrument
Published in Nature communications (29-04-2021)“…Characterisation of exoplanets is key to understanding their formation, composition and potential for life. Nulling interferometry, combined with extreme…”
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Resolving Decades of Periodic Spirals from the Wolf-Rayet Dust Factory WR 112
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2020)“…WR 112 is a dust-forming carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet (WC) binary with a dusty circumstellar nebula that exhibits a complex asymmetric morphology, which traces the…”
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From Dust to Nanodust: Resolving Circumstellar Dust from the Colliding-wind Binary Wolf-Rayet 140
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2023)“…Abstract Wolf-Rayet (WR) 140 is the archetypal periodic dust-forming colliding-wind binary that hosts a carbon-rich WR (WC) star and an O-star companion with…”
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Fizeau interferometric cophasing of segmented mirrors: experimental validation
Published in Optics express (02-06-2014)“…We present an optical testbed demonstration of the Fizeau Interferometric Cophasing of Segmented Mirrors (FICSM) algorithm. FICSM allows a segmented mirror to…”
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A First Look with JWST Aperture Masking Interferometry: Resolving Circumstellar Dust around the Wolf–Rayet Binary WR 137 beyond the Rayleigh Limit
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2024)“…Abstract We present infrared aperture-masking interferometry (AMI) observations of newly formed dust from the colliding winds of the massive binary Wolf–Rayet…”
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A demonstration of wavefront sensing and mirror phasing from the image domain
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2014)“…In astronomy and microscopy, distortions in the wavefront affect the dynamic range of a high-contrast imaging system. These aberrations are either imposed by a…”
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Fizeau interferometric cophasing of segmented mirrors
Published in Optics express (31-12-2012)“…Segmented mirror telescope designs address issues of mechanical rigidity, but introduce the problem of aligning, or cophasing, the separate segments to conform…”
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High-angular-resolution stellar imaging with occultations from the Cassini spacecraft – III. Mira
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2016)“…We present an analysis of spectral and spatial data of Mira obtained by the Cassini spacecraft, which not only observed the star's spectra over a broad range…”
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The Prototype Colliding-Wind Pinwheel WR 104
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2008)“…Results from the most extensive study of the time-evolving dust structure around the prototype 'pinwheel' nebula WR 104 are presented. Encompassing 11 epochs…”
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High-performance 3D waveguide architecture for astronomical pupil-remapping interferometry
Published in Optics express (28-07-2014)“…The detection and characterization of extra-solar planets is a major theme driving modern astronomy. Direct imaging of exoplanets allows access to a parameter…”
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High angular resolution stellar imaging with occultations from the Cassini spacecraft – II. Kronocyclic tomography
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-05-2015)“…We present an advance in the use of Cassini observations of stellar occultations by the rings of Saturn for stellar studies. Stewart et al. demonstrated the…”
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