Gilles P.P.L. Otten

Gilles P.P.L. Otten

Support Scientist

ASIAA

Biography

Support Scientist for the ELT/METIS instrument at Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) in Taiwan. Involved in the HiRISE project at LAM, Marseille, to combine high contract imaging and high dispersion spectroscopy at the VLT, and the MASCARA project at Leiden Observatory which searches for transiting exoplanets around the brightest stars. PhD on the prototyping, lab-testing and on-sky demonstration of a new type of broad-band coronagraphs. Amateur-genealogist with an interest in genetics as a tool to research family history.

Interests

  • Astronomical instrumentation
  • Exoplanets
  • Achromatic optics
  • Coronagraphy
  • High dispersion spectroscopy
  • Interferometry
  • Wavefront sensing
  • Genealogy
  • Genetics
  • History

Education

  • PhD in Astronomical Instrumentation, 2016

    Leiden Observatory

  • MSc in Astronomy, 2011

    Leiden University

  • BSc in Astronomy, 2009

    Leiden University

Selected Publications

A complete list of publications can be found here.
Direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution by coupling SPHERE and CRIRES+
Gilles P.P.L. Otten, A. Vigan, E. Muslimov, M. N'Diaye, E. Choquet, U. Seemann, K. Dohlen, M. Houllé, P. Cristofari, M. W. Phillips, Y. Charles, I. Baraffe, J.-L. Beuzit, A. Costille, R. Dorn, M. El Morsy, M. Kasper, M. Lopez, C. Mordasini, R. Pourcelot, A. Reiners, J.-F. Sauvage
Preprint Project
Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e
P. Mollière, T. Stolker, S. Lacour, Gilles P.P.L. Otten, J. Shangguan, B. Charnay, T. Molyarova, M. Nowak, Th. Henning, G.D. Marleau, D.A. Semenov, E. van Dishoeck, F. Eisenhauer, P. Garcia, R. Garcia Lopez, A.Z. Greenbaum, S. Hinkley, P. Kervella, L. Kreidberg, A.L. Maire, E. Nasedkin, L. Pueyo, I.A.G. Snellen, A. Vigan, J. Wang, P.T. de Zeeuw, A. Zurlo
Preprint Project
Bringing high-spectral resolution to VLT/SPHERE with a fibre coupling to VLT/CRIRES+
A. Vigan, Gilles P.P.L. Otten, E. Muslimov, K. Dohlen, M.W. Phillips, U. Seemann, J.-L. Beuzit, R. Dorn, M. Kasper, D. Mouillet, I. Baraffe, A. Reiners
Preprint Project
The Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA)-Finding transiting exoplanets around bright (mV < 8) stars
G.J. Talens, J.F.P. Spronck, A.-L. Lesage, Gilles P.P.L. Otten, R. Stuik, D. Pollacco, I.A.G. Snellen
Preprint Project
On-sky performance analysis of the vector apodizing phase plate coronagraph on MagAO/Clio2
Gilles P.P.L. Otten, F. Snik, M.A. Kenworthy, C.U. Keller, J.R. Males, K.M. Morzinski, L.M. Close, J.L. Codona, P.M. Hinz, K.J. Hornburg, L.L. Brickson, M.J. Escuti
Preprint Project
Performance characterization of a broadband vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph
Gilles P.P.L. Otten, F. Snik, M.A. Kenworthy, M.N. Miskiewicz, M.J. Escuti
Preprint Project
The vector-APP: a broadband apodizing phase plate that yields complementary PSFs
F. Snik, Gilles P.P.L. Otten, M.A. Kenworthy, M.N. Miskiewicz, M. Escuti, C. Packham, J. Codona
Preprint Project

Projects

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All Astronomy Other

exoGravity

The exoGravity Large Program uses GRAVITY on the VLTI to study the astrometry and atmospheres of known directly imaged extrasolar planets.

PAPYRUS

Installing an Adaptive Optics instrument based around a Pyramid Wavefront Sensor at the T152 at Observatoire de Haute Provence.

HiRISE

Combining high contrast imaging with high dispersion spectroscopy

MASCARA

The Multi-Site All-Sky CAmeRA searches for transiting exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky.

Vector APP

The vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph (vAPP) surpresses starlight on both sides of a star using an achromatic pupil-plane coronagraph based on liquid-crystal technology. This enables an improved detection and characterization of exoplanets and their atmospheres.

Genetic genealogy

DNA is a powerful tool in family research and has provided valuable clues in research of my family’s origins.

Genealogy

Otten family tree with more than 10000 relatives. Updated since the year 2000.

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