Dr. Isabel Lipartito Profile

Dr. Isabel Lipartito

at Univ of California Santa Barbara

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster

An MKID camera for use behind MagAO-X

Noah Swimmer, Benjamin Mazin, John Bailey, Jared Males, Gregoire Coiffard, Miguel Daal, Kristina Davis, Paul Szypryt, Seth Meeker, Alexander Walter, Clint Bockstiegel, Neelay Fruitwala, Isabel Lipartito, Nicholas Zobrist, Sarah Steiger, Jennifer Smith, Hawkins Clay

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121843Z (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629573

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Sensors, Exoplanets, Adaptive optics, Wavefront sensors, Visible radiation, Speckle, Photon counting, Photodetectors, Optical filters

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Proceedings Article | 1 August 2021 Presentation

On-sky demonstration of stochastic speckle discrimination for companion detection with the MKID Exoplanet Camera (MEC)

Sarah Steiger, Thayne Currie, Timothy Brandt, Olivier Guyon, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Jeffrey Chilcote, Tyler Groff, Julien Lozi, Alexander Walter, Neelay Fruitwala, John Bailey, Nicholas Zobrist, Noah Swimmer, Isabel Lipartito, Jennifer Smith, Clint Bockstiegel, Seth Meeker, Gregoire Coiffard, Rupert Dodkins, Paul Szypryt, Kristina Davis, Miguel Daal, Bruce Bumble, Sebastien Vievard, Ananya Sahoo, Vincent Deo, Nemanja Jovanovic, Frantz Martinache, Motohide Tamura, Benjamin Mazin

Proceedings Volume 11823, 1182307 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594872

KEYWORDS: Speckle, Stochastic processes, Exoplanets, Cameras, Sensors, Point spread functions, Stars, Signal to noise ratio, Photodetectors, Image resolution

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

The PICTURE-C MKID camera

Noah Swimmer, Benjamin Mazin, Clint Bockstiegel, John Bailey, Gregoire Coiffard, Miguel Daal, Kristina Davis, Neelay Fruitwala, Isabel Lipartito, Jennifer Smith, Sarah Steiger, Nicholas Zobrist, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti, Christopher Mendillo, Jason Martel, Kuravi Hewawasam

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114479B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561770

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Exoplanets, Iterated function systems, Optical imaging, Sensors, Photon counting, Spectrographs, Microwave radiation, Inductance, Spatial resolution

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2018 Presentation

Active speckle control with microwave kinetic inductance detectors (Conference Presentation)

Neelay Fruitwala, Seth Meeker, Michael Bottom, Alex Walter, Clinton Bockstiegel, Giulia Collura, Isabel Lipartito, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi, Benjamin Mazin

Proceedings Volume 10703, 107031L (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311402

KEYWORDS: Speckle, Microwave radiation, Inductance, Sensors, Active sensors, Coronagraphy, Adaptive optics, Observatories, Wavefronts, Single photon

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Proceedings Article | 9 July 2018 Presentation

MEC: the MKID exoplanet camera for high contrast astronomy at Subaru (Conference Presentation)

Alex Walter, Benjamin Mazin, Clint Bockstiegel, Neelay Fruitwala, Paul Szypryt, Isabel Lipartito, Seth Meeker, Nicholas Zobrist, Giulia Collura, Grégoire Coiffard, Paschal Strader, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi, Nemanja Jovanovic

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107020V (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311586

KEYWORDS: Exoplanets, Stars, Cameras, Planets, Astronomy, Speckle, Coronagraphy, Iterated function systems, Telescopes, Gemini Planet Imager

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Direct Imaging of exoplanets is one of the most technically difficult techniques used to study exoplanets, but holds immense promise for not just detecting but characterizing planets around the nearest stars. Ambitious instruments at the world’s largest telescopes have been built to carry out this science: the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), SPHERE at VLT, SCExAO at Subaru, and the P1640 and Stellar Double Coronagraph (SDC) at Palomar. These instruments share a common archetype consisting of an extreme AO system feeding a coronagraph for on-axis stellar light rejection followed by a focal plane Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS). They are currently limited by uncontrolled scattered and diffracted light which produces a coherent speckle halo in the image plane. A number of differential imaging schemes exist to mitigate these issues resulting in star-planet contrast ratios as deep as ~10^-6 at low angular separations. Surpassing this contrast limit requires high speed active speckle nullification from a focal plane wavefront sensor (FPWS) and new processing techniques. MEC, the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Exoplanet Camera, is a J-band IFS module behind Subaru Telescope’s SCExAO system. MEC is capable of producing an image cube several thousand times a second without the read noise that dominates conventional high speed IFUs. This enables it to integrate with SCExAO as an extremely fast FPWS while eliminating non-common path aberrations by doubling as a science camera. Key science objectives can be further explored if longer wavelengths (H and K band) are simultaneously sent to CHARIS for high resolution spectroscopy. MEC, to be commissioned at Subaru in early 2018, is the second MKID IFS for high contrast imaging following DARKNESS’ debut at Palomar in July 2016. MEC will follow up on young planets and debris disks discovered in the SEEDS survey or by Project 1640 as well as discover self-luminous massive planets. The increased sensitivity, combined with the advanced coronagraphs in SCExAO which have inner working angles (IWAs) as small as 0.03” at 1.2 μm, allows young Jupiter-sized objects to be imaged as close as 4 AU from their host star. If the wavefront control enabled by MEC is fully realized, it may begin to probe the reflected light of giant planets around some nearby stars, opening a new parameter space for direct imaging targeting older stars. While direct imaging of reflected light exoplanets is the most challenging of the scientific goals, it is a promising long-term path towards characterization of habitable planets around nearby stars using Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). With diameters of about 30-m, an ELT can resolve the habitable zones of nearby M-type stars, for which an Earth-sized planet would be at ~10^-7 contrast at 1 μm. This will complement future space-based high contrast optical imaging targeting the wider habitable zones of sun-like stars for ~10^-10 contrast earth analogs. We will present lessons learned from the first few months of MEC’s operation including initial lab and on-sky (weather permitting) results. We already have preliminary data from Palomar testing a new statistical speckle discrimination post-processing technique using the photon arrival time measured with MKIDs. Residual stellar light in the form of a speckle masquerading as a planetary companion is pulled from a modified Rician distribution and can be statistically discerned from a true off-axis Poisson point source. Additionally, the progress of active focal plane wavefront control will be briefly discussed.

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