August 3rd, 2023: The summer flew by. Robo-AO-2 Akamai intern Kyla presented the results of her research at the Akamai Workforce Initiative, Internship Symposium at UH Hilo this morning. Excellent work Kyla! (also pictured: mentors James and Christoph with limited edition UHIfA lei c/o Kyla). July 21st, 2023: Robo-AO-2 PI Christoph Baranec presents at the TASC7/KASC14 workshop on how Robo-AO-2…
June 26th, 2016: The Robo-AO team is at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Edinburgh, Scottland with 4 talks and 2 posters that used Robo-AO data or technology: C. Baranec The Rapid Transient Surveyor D. Atkinson Next-generation performance of SAPHIRA HgCdTe APDs C. Ziegler SRAO: optical design and the dual-knife-edge WFS N. Law SRAO: the southern robotic speckle +…
December 18th, 2014: Robo-AO was used to confirm the first discovered Kepler K2 exoplanet candidate by using high-resolution imaging of its host star to answer whether there are any very nearby stellar companions which may be contaminating the light curve measurements. Read more in the IfA press release and the journal paper led by CfA graduate student Andrew Vanderburg. November 13th, 2014: The Robo-AO team has been…
December 17th, 2012: Robo-AO has appeared in the latest issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science magazine. Read the article by Marcus Woo. November 15th, 2012: Robo-AO made an excellent showing at the 2012 Palomar Science Meeting with a science overview talk (Christoph), three posters (Reed, Shriharsh and Sergi) and description of how the system is verifying Kepler transit candidates during Prof. Johnson's public talk. Coincidentally, Nick presented the recently submitted…
December 7th, 2011: Data from our November commissioning run has been used to tentatively identify a triple star system, previously thought to be a White-dwarf - M-dwarf binary star system. The observations appear in a recently submitted paper led by Project Scientist Nicholas Law. December 6th, 2011: Science team member Prof. John Johnson explains how Robo-AO can search for nearby companions to Kepler objects in visible wavelengths…
December 23rd, 2010: Several key components have arrived: the periscope assembly and many of the custom optics, including flat and off-axis parabolic mirrors. The optics will be sent out to be coated with a specialized high-reflectivity coating that spans ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The periscope will be painted in the new year with a special paint that mitigates stray light…