The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry

Anand Sivaramakrishnan; Peter Tuthill; James P. Lloyd; Alexandra Z. Greenbaum; Deepashri Thatte; Rachel A. Cooper; Thomas Vandal; Jens Kammerer; Joel Sanchez-Bermudez; Benjamin J.S. Pope; Dori Blakely; Loïc Albert; Neil J. Cook; Doug Johnstone; André R. Martel; Kevin Volk; Anthony Soulain; Étienne Artigau; David Lafrenière; Chris J. Willott; Sébastien Parmentier; K. E.Saavik Ford; Barry McKernan; M. Begoña Vila; Neil Rowlands; René Doyon; Mathilde Beaulieu; Louis Desdoigts; Alexander W. Fullerton; Matthew De Furio; Paul Goudfrooij; Sherie T. Holfeltz; Stephanie LaMassa; Michael Maszkiewicz; Michael R. Meyer; Marshall D. Perrin; Laurent Pueyo; Johannes Sahlmann; Sangmo Tony Sohn; Paula S. Teixeira; Sheng Hai Zheng

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The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry

Anand Sivaramakrishnan (Lead / Corresponding author), Peter Tuthill, James P. Lloyd, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Deepashri Thatte, Rachel A. Cooper, Thomas Vandal, Jens Kammerer, Joel Sanchez-Bermudez, Benjamin J.S. Pope, Dori Blakely, Loïc Albert, Neil J. Cook, Doug Johnstone, André R. Martel, Kevin Volk, Anthony Soulain, Étienne Artigau, David Lafrenière, Chris J. WillottSébastien Parmentier, K. E.Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan, M. Begoña Vila, Neil Rowlands, René Doyon, Mathilde Beaulieu, Louis Desdoigts, Alexander W. Fullerton, Matthew De Furio, Paul Goudfrooij, Sherie T. Holfeltz, Stephanie LaMassa, Michael Maszkiewicz, Michael R. Meyer, Marshall D. Perrin, Laurent Pueyo, Johannes Sahlmann, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Paula S. Teixeira, Sheng Hai Zheng

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST-NIRISS) flies a 7-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), the first such interferometer in space, operating at 3-5 μm wavelengths, and a bright limit of ≃4 mag in W2. We describe the NIRISS Aperture Masking Interferometry (AMI) mode to help potential observers understand its underlying principles, present some sample science cases, explain its operational observing strategies, indicate how AMI proposals can be developed with data simulations, and how AMI data can be analyzed. We also present key results from commissioning AMI. Since the allied Kernel Phase Imaging (KPI) technique benefits from AMI operational strategies, we also cover NIRISS KPI methods and analysis techniques, including a new user-friendly KPI pipeline. The NIRISS KPI bright limit is ≃8 W2 (4.6 μm) magnitudes. AMI NRM and KPI achieve an inner working angle of ∼70 mas, which is well inside the ∼400 mas NIRCam inner working angle for its circular occulter coronagraphs at comparable wavelengths.

Original language	English
Article number	015003
Number of pages	20
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume	135
Issue number	1043
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/acaebd
Publication status	Published - 8 Jan 2023

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instrumentation
interferometers – methods
data analysis – techniques
high angular resolution – techniques
direct imaging

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Space and Planetary Science

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Sivaramakrishnan, A., Tuthill, P., Lloyd, J. P., Greenbaum, A. Z., Thatte, D., Cooper, R. A., Vandal, T., Kammerer, J., Sanchez-Bermudez, J., Pope, B. J. S., Blakely, D., Albert, L., Cook, N. J., Johnstone, D., Martel, A. R., Volk, K., Soulain, A., Artigau, É., Lafrenière, D., ... Zheng, S. H. (2023). The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 135(1043), Article 015003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/acaebd

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The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry. / Sivaramakrishnan, Anand (Lead / Corresponding author); Tuthill, Peter; Lloyd, James P. et al.
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