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Probing for Exoplanets Hiding in Dusty Debris Disks: Disk Imaging, Characterization, and Exploration with HST/STIS Multi-roll Coronagraphy

  • Authors: Glenn Schneider, Carol A. Grady, Dean C. Hines, Christopher C. Stark, John H. Debes, Joe Carson, Marc J. Kuchner, Marshall D. Perrin, Alycia J. Weinberger, John P. Wisniewski, Murray D. Silverstone, Hannah Jang-Condell, Thomas Henning, Bruce E. Woodgate, Eugene Serabyn, Amaya Moro-Martin, Motohide Tamura, Phillip M. Hinz, and Timothy J. Rodigas

Schneider et al. 2014 The Astronomical Journal 148 59.

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Caption: Figure 13.

(A) HD 15175 ACS discovery image (from Kalas et al. 2007a; see Figure 1). The central masked region r = 1'' but "the presence of quasi-static speckles produces significant PSF-subtraction residuals, limiting the detection radius to ~2 arcseconds," (p. 161). (B) STIS three-roll combined image (visits B5–B8 only) improves over ACS IWAeffective = 2'' undegraded from residuals by ~×7 to IWAeffective = 0farcs3 (19 AU projected; central yellow circle). The dotted black circle corresponds to the r = 1'' digital mask imposed on ACS image in panel (A). The solid gray circle corresponds to the larger r = 2'' effective IWA in the ACS. Log10 display [−2.2] to [+2.5] {dex} cps pixel−1. (C) Same STIS data as panel (B), but with the disk major axis rotated to image horizontal and log10 monochrome display [−1.5] to [+1.5] {dex} cps pixel−1. Field shown: 350 × 350 STIS pixels (17farcs75 × 17farcs75). N.B.: point object (revealed as binary with STIS) is non-common proper motion background star superimposed on the disk, as determined with NICMOS (2004)/STIS (2012) two-epoch data.

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