Matthew KENWORTHY

Email:	kenworthy @ strw.leidenuniv.nl
Mail:	Sterrewacht Leiden P.O. Box 9513, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Phone:	+31 (0) 71 527 8455

Current Research

I am an Assistant Professor at Leiden Observatory, part of Leiden University. I am currently carrying out a search for extrasolar planets around nearby young stars in the thermal infrared (5 microns). The glare of the primary star masks out the faint extrasolar planet's light that we are trying to detect, so we are using a new type of coronagraph which helps suppress the glare of the primary star whilst letting the light from the planet through to the Clio camera (developed and built by Phil Hinz).

As a byproduct of this work, I am helping to develop new wavefront sensing techniques and test them in practical, realistic, high Strehl (>85%) situations. Our latest work is with Phase Sorting Interferometry (PSI), a technique developed with John Codona and Michael Hart. This is promising to be a very exciting technique for full complex amplitude aberration sensing with no additional hardware required in the science camera.

Leiden 10 day / astro-ph find / simbad / ADS abstracts (weather) AZ TUS / AZ METEO Landmarks / AZ Sat Im / 500mb US Anim / Water US Anim / wunderground