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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
卷 199, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/199/1/6
关键词
instrumentation: adaptive optics; techniques: high angular resolution; techniques: spectroscopic
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation [AST-0520822, AST-0804417, AST-0908484, AST-0908497, AST-0619922, AST-1007046]
- NASA ROSES Origins of Solar Systems [NMO710830/102190]
- Carl Sagan Fellowship Program
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0908497, 1039790] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J001538/1, ST/G00269X/1, ST/H00243X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/G00269X/1, ST/J001538/1] Funding Source: UKRI
High-contrast imaging instruments are now being equipped with integral field spectrographs (IFSs) to facilitate the detection and characterization of faint substellar companions. Algorithms currently envisioned to handle IFS data, such as the Locally Optimized Combination of Images (LOCI) algorithm, rely on aggressive point-spread function (PSF) subtraction, which is ideal for initially identifying companions but results in significantly biased photometry and spectroscopy owing to unwanted mixing with residual starlight. This spectrophotometric issue is further complicated by the fact that algorithmic color response is a function of the companion's spectrum, making it difficult to calibrate the effects of the reduction without using iterations involving a series of injected synthetic companions. In this paper, we introduce a new PSF calibration method, which we call damped LOCI, that seeks to alleviate these concerns. By modifying the cost function that determines the weighting coefficients used to construct PSF reference images, and also forcing those coefficients to be positive, it is possible to extract companion spectra with a precision that is set by calibration of the instrument response and transmission of the atmosphere, and not by post-processing. We demonstrate the utility of this approach using on-sky data obtained with the Project 1640 IFS at Palomar. Damped LOCI does not require any iterations on the underlying spectral type of the companion, nor does it rely on priors involving the chromatic and statistical properties of speckles. It is a general technique that can readily be applied to other current and planned instruments that employ IFSs.
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