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Future EM-astrophysics is super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, physics and UV-to-NIR applications Speaker: Alma Mater Studiorum: Enrico Biancalani University of Bologna Astro-Instrumentation Seminar, Knigstuhls

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Future EM-astrophysics is super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, physics and UV-to-NIR applications

Speaker: Alma Mater Studiorum:

Enrico Biancalani University of Bologna

Astro-Instrumentation Seminar,

Königstuhl’s Landessternwarte,

18 January 2018

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 1/30

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Towards a novel concept of integral-field spectrograph

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 2/30

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ARCONS: first optical MKID-array on sky, at Palomar

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 3/30

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Background: the discovery of superconductivity in DC

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 4/30

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Background: Cooper “pairs” and the dissipation in AC

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 5/30

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Background: superconducting kinetic inductance effect

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 6/30

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Working principle of MKIDs: breaking Cooper “pairs”

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 7/30

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Ketterle in Heidelberg, about ultracold atomic physics

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 8/30

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Phase-amplitude shift & ν-domain multiplexing (FDM)

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 9/30

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Phase shift from a 254-nm photon and the Crab pulsar

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 10/30

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3.2 ± 0.5 % enhancement if “gr” pulse is soon after “o”

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 11/30

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Average optical profile of the peak, for the main pulse

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 12/30

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11.3 ± 2.5 % enhancement if the two peaks coincide

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 13/30

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AM CVn short-period eclipsing binary: (400–550) nm

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 14/30

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Curves at different ∆λs and mean-count-rate scaled

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 15/30

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The Dark-speckle NIR E-resolved Superconducting Spectrophotometer

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 16/30

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First MKID coronagraphic exoplanet hunter, at Palomar

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 17/30

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Transmission for identical structures: PtSi versus TiN

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 18/30

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Phase-ν calibration and coronagraph rejection testing

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 19/30

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“Moore’s law” for sub-mm detectors and MKID-arrays

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 20/30

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New IRAM Kid Array 2: Hilbert-like fractal-pattern KIDs

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 21/30

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An optical spectrometer for KIDSpec’s feasibility study

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 22/30

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A fibre for the cryostat: etiology of the circular patterns

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 23/30

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The Keck Radiometer Array using KID Eergy Sensors

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 24/30

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Predicted total throughput and total sky count rate/pixel

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 25/30

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SCExAO+MEC: possible first-light visiting instruments

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 26/30

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Comparison between exoplanets discovering methods

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 27/30

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Spectral differential imaging and dark speckle method

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 28/30

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Habitable exoplanets in sight: the goal of next decade

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 29/30

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New horizons with the Dragonfly nulling interferometer

Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 30/30