William Thompson

PhD candidate at the university of Victoria, working on exoplanets, instruments, and Julia tools.

wthompson@uvic.ca

ORCID: 0000-0001-5684-4593

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Image 1 Dark hole at NEW-EARTH Lab
Image 2 Image of HR8799 Planets
Image 2 Orbit modelling of 51 Eridani b

Posts & Tutorials

▷ Direct Imaging Sample Data ▷ Deorbitting sandbox ▷ Orbit movies ▷ Official JuliaAstro tutorial series ▷ Fitting planet astrometry ▷ Orbit calculations ▷ Julia notes for astronomy ▷ Noise propagation in Fourier transform Spectrographs

Code

AstroImages.jl Octofitter.jl SNAP PlanetOrbits.jl PairPlots.jl Aeron.jl Red-Pitaya Multi-Channel Analyser UI

Recorded Talks

AstroImages.jl (JuliaCon 2022) Julia for Adaptive Optics (JuliaCon 2022) Adaptive Optics in Julia (JuliaCon 2021) Performance of the FAST self coherent camera (SPIE 2022,paywalled)

Publications

First author

▷ Thompson, W., Marois, C., et al, Deep orbital search for additional planets in the HR8799 system, AJ, 2023 ▷ Thompson, W., Marois, C., Singh, G., et al, Performance of the Fast Atmospheric Self Coherent camera at the NEW-EARTH lab and a simplified measurement algorithm, SPIE, 2022 ▷ Thompson, W., Marois, C., Improved Contrast in Images of Exoplanets using Direct SNR Optimization, AJ, 2021 ▷ Thompson, W., Marois, C., Extremely Bright Orbital Guide Beacons for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT6, 2019

Pre-prints

▷ Thompson, W., Herwig, F., et al, 3D hydrodynamic simulations of massive main-sequence stars II. Convective excitation and spectra of internal gravity waves, submitted to MNRAS, 2023 ▷ Thompson, W., Giordano, M., AstroImages.jl, submitted to JCON, 2022

Co-authored

▷ Marois, C., Lardiére, O., Thompson, W., et al, Deployment of focal plane WFS technologies on 8-m telescopes: from the Subaru SPIDERS pathfinder, to the facility-class GPI 2.0 CAL2 system, SPIE, 2022 ▷ Lardiére, O., Marois, C., Thompson, W., et al, Optical design of SPIDERS, a Subaru Pathfinder Instrument for Detecting Exoplanets & Retrieving Spectra, SPIE, 2022 ▷ Singh, G., Thompson, W., et al, Pupil-plane LLOWFS simulation and laboratory results from NEW-EARTH’s high-contrast imaging testbed, SPIE, 2022 ▷ Johnson, A. B., Marois, C., Gamroth, D., Fitzsimmons, J, Lardiére, O., Thompson, W., et al, Blinking the fringes, initial development and results of the Ultra-Low Speed Optical Chopper for the Self-Coherent Camera, SPIE, 2022 ▷ Lardière, O., Gerard, B., Marois, C., Thompson, W., et al Optical design and preliminary results of NEW EARTH, first Canadian high-contrast imaging laboratory test bench Proceedings of the SPIE, 2020 ▷ Marois, C., Gerard, B., Thompson, W., et al Exoplanet Imaging: a technological and scientific road-map for finding Life signatures on other Worlds, Canadian Long Range Plan For Astronomy and Astrophysics White Paper, 2020
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