Publications

Found 304 results
2018
J. Lumbres, Males, J., Douglas, E., Close, L., Guyon, O., Cahoy, K., Carlton, A., Clark, J., Doelman, D., Feinberg, L., Knight, J., Marlow, W. Alan Navar, Miller, K., Morzinski, K. M., Por, E., Rodack, A., Schatz, L., Snik, F., Van Gorkom, K., and Wilby, M., Modeling coronagraphic extreme wavefront control systems for high contrast imaging in ground and space telescope missions, in Adaptive Optics Systems VI, 2018, vol. 10703, p. 107034Z.
O. Čierny and Cahoy, K., On-orbit beam pointing calibration for nanosatellite laser communications, Optical Engineering, vol. 58, p. 1, 2018.
J. Clark and Cahoy, K., Optical Detection of Lasers with Near-term Technology at Interstellar Distances, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 867, p. 97, 2018.
D. Barnes, Optomechanical design, analysis, and testing of the nanosatellite optical downlink experiment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
R. Fitzgerald, Path calibration algorithms for many-aperture fiber-linked broadband hypertelescopes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
J. Gubner, Allan, G. W., Douglas, E., and Cahoy, K., Payload Integration and Testing of the Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) CubeSat, 2018.
A. Kennedy, Planning and scheduling for earth-observing small satellite constellations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
M. J. Long, Pointing acquisition and tracking design and analysis for CubeSat Laser communication, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
K. Riesing, Portable optical ground stations for satellite communication, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
E. Clements, Probabilistic methods for systems engineering with application to nanosatellite laser communications, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
A. B. Crews, Cahoy, K., Blackwell, W., Leslie, R. Vincent, Osaretin, I. A., DiLiberto, M., Milstein, A., and Grant, M., Radiance Validation of Small Satellite Microwave Radiometers using the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM), 2018.
K. Riesing, Yoon, H., and Cahoy, K., Rapid telescope pointing calibration: a quaternion-based solution using low-cost hardware, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 4, p. 034002, 2018.
K. Riesing, Yoon, H., and Cahoy, K., Satellite tracking with a portable telescope and star camera, 2018.
G. W. Allan, Simulation and testing of wavefront reconstruction algorithms for the deformable mirror (DeMi) cubesat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
W. Lohmeyer, Aniceto, R., Cahoy, K., and Carlton, A., Solar array degradation on geostationary communications satellites: the quantification of annual degradation and degradation over solar proton events, International Journal of Space Science and Engineering, vol. 5, pp. 61-81, 2018.
R. Geykhman and Cahoy, K., Spectroscopic measurements of asteroids allow mitigation of differential color refraction effects on ground-based astrometry and orbit prediction accuracy, in Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 2018, vol. 10702, p. 107024U.
R. E. Morgan, Douglas, E., Cahoy, K., Morzinski, K. M., Close, L., and Males, J., Surveying the Epsilon Eridani system Using MagAO, in Proc SPIE, 2018, p. 96.
A. Carlton, Morgan, R. E., Lohmeyer, W., and Cahoy, K., Telemetry Fault-Detection Algorithms: Applications for Spacecraft Monitoring and Space Environment Sensing, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol. 15, pp. 239-252, 2018.
A. Aguilar, Diez, R., Serra, P., Clark, J., and Cahoy, K., Time-To-Digital Converter vs. Analog-To-Digital Converter and Matched Filter Performance in Nanosatellite Optical Receivers, 2018.
R. Aniceto, Milanowski, R., Moro, S., Hall, N., Vermeire, B., Shields, J., and Cahoy, K., Total Ionizing Dose Assessment of a Commercial 200V PMOSFET, in 2018 IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC 2018), 2018.
J. Louis Menezes, Use of isoperformance, constraint programming, and mixed integer linear programing for architecture tradespace exploration of passive Optical Earth Observation Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
T. Currie, Belikov, R., Guyon, O., N. Kasdin, J., Marois, C., Marley, M. S., Cahoy, K., McElwain, M., Bendek, E. A., Kuchner, M., and , Using Ground-Based Telescopes to Mature Key Technologies and Advance Science for Future NASA Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions, arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05453, 2018.
E. Douglas, Mendillo, C. Bernard, Cook, T. A., Cahoy, K., and Chakrabarti, S., Wavefront sensing in space: flight demonstration II of the PICTURE sounding rocket payload, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 4, p. 019003, 2018.
E. Douglas, Carlton, A., Cahoy, K., N. Kasdin, J., Turnbull, M., and Macintosh, B., WFIRST coronagraph technology requirements: status update and systems engineering approach, in Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VIII, 2018, vol. 10705, p. 1070526.
E. Douglas, Cahoy, K., Carlton, A., Macintosh, B., Turnbull, M., N. Kasdin, J., and Teams, W. F. I. R. S. T. Coronagrap, WFIRST: Update on the Coronagraph Science Requirements, in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts \#231, 2018, vol. 231, p. 355.14.
2017
M. C. Pasqual and Cahoy, K., Active Polarimetric Measurements for Identification and Characterization of Space Debris, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 53, pp. 2706-2717, 2017.
Z. Lee, CubeSat constellation implementation and management using differential drag, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
E. Douglas, Bendek, E. A., Marinan, A., Belikov, R., Merk, J., and Cahoy, K., The DeMi CubeSat: Wavefront Control with a MEMS Deformable Mirror in Space, in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 2017, vol. 229, p. 146.23.
E. Douglas, Allan, G. W., Barnes, D., Figura, J. S., Haughwout, C., Gubner, J., Knoedler, A. A., LeClair, S., Murphy, T. J., Skouloudis, N., Merk, J., Opperman, R. A., and Cahoy, K., Design of the deformable mirror demonstration CubeSat (DeMi), in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 2017, vol. 10400, p. 1040013.
S. T. Lai, Martinez-Sanchez, M., Cahoy, K., Thomsen, M. F., Shprits, Y., Lohmeyer, W., and Wong, F., Does Spacecraft Potential Depend on the Ambient Electron Density?, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 45, pp. 2875-2884, 2017.
K. Cahoy, Marley, M. S., and Fortney, J. J., Erratum:``Exoplanet Albedo Spectra and Colors as a Function of Planet Phase, Separation, and Metallicity''(2010, ApJ, 724, 189), The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 844, p. 89, 2017.
R. Aniceto, Evaluation of the performance of coherent optical communications commercial DSP ASICs in low earth orbit radiation environments, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
R. Kingsbury, Nguyen, T., Riesing, K., and Cahoy, K., Fast-steering solutions for cubesat-scale optical communications, in International Conference on Space Optics—{}ICSO 2014, 2017, vol. 10563, p. 105630G.
K. Cahoy, Douglas, E., Carlton, A., Clark, J., and Haughwout, C., How CubeSats contribute to Science and Technology in Astronomy and Astrophysics, in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 2017, vol. 229.
K. Cahoy, Imaging the predicted asteroid belt analogue around Epsilon Eridani, p. 15217, 2017.
K. Cahoy and Kennedy, A., Initial Results from ACCESS: An Autonomous CubeSat Constellation Scheduling System for Earth Observation, 2017.
K. Cahoy, Allan, G. W., Hein, A., Kennedy, A., Lee, Z., Main, E., Marlow, W. Alan Navar, Murphy, T. J., Cousins, D., and Blackwell, W., Integration and Test of the Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) CubeSat, p. 23, 2017.
E. Clements, Cahoy, K., Haughwout, C., Yoon, H., Riesing, K., Khatsenko, M., Ziegler, C., and Aniceto, R., Integration and Testing of the Nanosatellite Optical Downlink Experiment, 2017.
C. Ziegler, A jam-resistant CubeSat communications architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
H. Yoon, Riesing, K., and Cahoy, K., Kalman Filtering for Attitude and Parameter Estimation of Nanosatellites Without Gyroscopes, Journal of Guidance Control Dynamics, vol. 40, pp. 2272-2288, 2017.
W. Alan Navar Marlow, Carlton, A., Yoon, H., Clark, J., Haughwout, C., Cahoy, K., Males, J., Close, L., and Morzinski, K. M., Laser-Guide-Star Satellite for Ground-Based Adaptive Optics Imaging of Geosynchronous Satellites, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 54, pp. 621-639, 2017.
M. Plyler, A machine learning approach to wind estimation and uncertainty using remote dropsondes and deterministic forecasts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
W. Blackwell and Cahoy, K., New small satellite capabilities for microwave atmospheric remote sensing, in Seventh Conf. on Transition of Research to Operations/13th Annual Symp. on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, 2017.
M. Lee, Optomechanical and wavelength alignments of CubeSat laser communication Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
H. Yoon, Pointing system performance analysis for optical inter-satellite communication on CubeSats, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
K. Riesing, Yoon, H., and Cahoy, K., A portable optical ground station for low-earth orbit satellite communications, in Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, 2017, pp. 108-114.
E. Clements and Cahoy, K., Probabilistic Methods for Nanosatellite Systems Engineering: A Lasercom Case Study, in 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2017, p. 0400.
R. Milanowski, Aniceto, R., Hardy, F., Vermeire, B., Jacox, M., Moro, S., and Cahoy, K., Proton Radiation Effects Assessment of a Commercial 12-Megapixel CMOS Imager, in Radiation Effects Data Workshop (REDW), 2017 IEEE, 2017, pp. 1-7.
R. Aniceto, Milanowski, R., Moro, S., Cahoy, K., and Schlenvogt, G., Proton Radiation Effects on Hamamatsu InGaAs PIN Photodiodes, in 2017 17th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2017.
M. J. Rizzo, Groff, T. D., Zimmermann, N. T., Gong, Q., Mandell, A. M., Saxena, P., McElwain, M., Roberge, A., Krist, J., Riggs, A. J. Eldorad, Cady, E. J., Prada, C. Mejia, Brandt, T., Douglas, E., and Cahoy, K., Simulating the WFIRST coronagraph integral field spectrograph, in Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VIII, 2017, vol. 10400, p. 104000B.
R. Aniceto, Moro, S., Milanowski, R., Isabelle, C., Hall, N., Vermeire, B., and Cahoy, K., Single Event Effect and Total Ionizing Dose Assessment of Commercial Optical Coherent DSP ASIC, in Radiation Effects Data Workshop (REDW), 2017 IEEE, 2017, pp. 1-6.
A. Hein, A systems analysis of CubeSat constellations with distributed sensors, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
J. Brown and Stubis, K., TETRA: Star Identification with Hash Tables, 2017.
2016
A. Marinan, Cahoy, K., Bishop, R., Lui, S. Seto, Bardeen, J. R., Mulligan, T., Blackwell, W., Leslie, R. Vincent, Osaretin, I. A., and Shields, M., Assessment of Radiometer Calibration With GPS Radio Occultation for the MiRaTA CubeSat Mission, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, pp. 5703-5714, 2016.
S. J. Shea, Characterization of redundant UHF communication systems for CubeSats, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
R. Aniceto, Cahoy, K., and Lohmeyer, W., Communication satellite power amplifiers: current and future SSPA and TWTA technologies, 2016.
T. Cordeiro, Dynamic instabilities imparted by CubeSat propulsion, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
M. C. Pasqual, Experimental study of non-resolved active polarimetry for space surveillance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
A. Carlton, Fault detection algorithms for spacecraft monitoring and environmental sensing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
H. Yoon, Sternberg, D. C., and Cahoy, K., A General Solution for Update with Out-of-Sequence Measurements: The Augmented Fixed-Lag Smoother, in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2016, p. 1619.
K. Cahoy and Carlton, A., GEO Satellites as Space Weather Sensors. {Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge United States}, 2016.
S. Domagal-Goldman, Gaudi, S., Seager, S., Mennesson, B., Warfield, K. R., Cahoy, K., Feinberg, L., Guyon, O., N. Kasdin, J., Mawet, D., Robinson, T. D., Rogers, L., Scowen, P. A., Somerville, R., Stapelfeldt, K., Stern, D., Turnbull, M., Marois, C., Mouillet, D., Prusti, T., Quirrenbach, A., Tamura, M., Still, M., and Hudgins, D., HabEx: Finding and characterizing Habitable Exoplanets with a potential future flagship astrophysics mission, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2016, p. P13C-02.
B. Mennesson, Gaudi, S., Seager, S., Cahoy, K., Domagal-Goldman, S., Feinberg, L., Guyon, O., N. Kasdin, J., Marois, C., Mawet, D., Tamura, M., Mouillet, D., Prusti, T., Quirrenbach, A., Robinson, T. D., Rogers, L., Scowen, P. A., Somerville, R., Stapelfeldt, K., Stern, D., Still, M., Turnbull, M., Booth, J., Kiessling, A., Kuan, G., and Warfield, K. R., The Habitable Exoplanet (HabEx) Imaging Mission: preliminary science drivers and technical requirements, in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 2016, vol. 9904, p. 99040L.
R. Kingsbury, Caplan, D., and Cahoy, K., Implementation and validation of a CubeSat laser transmitter, in Free-Space Laser Communication and Atmospheric Propagation XXVIII, 2016, vol. 9739, p. 973905.
W. Alan Navar Marlow, Improving attitude determination and control of resource-constrained CubeSats using unscented Kalman filtering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
A. Marinan, Improving nanosatellite capabilities for atmospheric sounding and characterization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
A. Marinan, Cahoy, K., Merk, J., Belikov, R., and Bendek, E. A., Improving Nanosatellite Imaging with Adaptive Optics, AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2016.
E. Clements, Carlton, A., Joyce, C. J., Schwadron, N. A., Spence, H. E., Sun, X., and Cahoy, K., Interplanetary space weather effects on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter avalanche photodiode performance, Space Weather, vol. 14, pp. 343-350, 2016.
H. Yoon, Sternberg, D. C., and Cahoy, K., Interpolation Method for Update with Out-of-Sequence Measurements: The Augmented Fixed-Lag Smoother, Journal of Guidance Control Dynamics, vol. 39, pp. 2546-2553, 2016.
W. Alan Navar Marlow, Carlton, A., Yoon, H., Clark, J., Haughwout, C., Cahoy, K., Males, J., Close, L., and Morzinski, K. M., Laser Guidestar Satellite for Ground-based Adaptive Optics Imaging of Geosynchronous Satellites, in Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, 2016, p. 99.
M. Plyler, Cahoy, K., Angermueller, K., Chen, D., and Markuzon, N., Learning-based Wind Estimation using Distant Soundings for Unguided Aerial Delivery, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2016, p. NG33A-1854.
E. Clements, Aniceto, R., Barnes, D., Caplan, D., Clark, J., del Portillo, I., Haughwout, C., Khatsenko, M., Kingsbury, R., Lee, M., Morgan, R. E., Twichell, J., Riesing, K., Yoon, H., Ziegler, C., and Cahoy, K., Nanosatellite optical downlink experiment: design, simulation, and prototyping, Optical Engineering, vol. 55, p. 111610, 2016.
J. Clark, Nonlinear optics for frequency-doubling in nanosatellite laser communication, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
A. Kennedy and Cahoy, K., Performance Analysis of Algorithms for Coordination of Earth Observation by CubeSat Constellations, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol. 14, pp. 451-471, 2016.
K. Gantner, Production leveling and cycle time reduction in satellite manufacturing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
J. Byrne, Resource-constrained avionics design for CubeSats, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
J. Brown, ROAD : Rapid Optical Asteroid Detection, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
H. Yoon, Riesing, K., and Cahoy, K., Satellite tracking system using amateur telescope and star camera for portable optical ground station, 2016.
Z. Decker, A systems-engineering assessment of multiple CubeSat build approaches, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
A. Carlton, de Soria-Santacruz Pich, M., Jun, I., Kim, W., and Cahoy, K., Using the Galileo Solid State Imager as a Sensor of Jovian Energetic Electrons, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2016, p. SM51A-2463.
2015
M. C. Pasqual, Cahoy, K., and Hines, E. L., Active Polarimetry for Orbital Debris Identification, in Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, 2015.
A. Kennedy, Marinan, A., Cahoy, K., Byrne, J., Cordeiro, T., Decker, Z., Marlow, W. Alan Navar, Shea, S. J., Blackwell, W., DiLiberto, M., and , Automated resource-constrained science planning for the mirata mission, 2015.
R. Kingsbury, Caplan, D., and Cahoy, K., Compact optical transmitters for CubeSat free-space optical communications, in Free-Space Laser Communication and Atmospheric Propagation XXVII, 2015, vol. 9354, p. 93540S.
T. Nguyen, Riesing, K., Kingsbury, R., and Cahoy, K., Development of a pointing, acquisition, and tracking system for a CubeSat optical communication module, in Free-Space Laser Communication and Atmospheric Propagation XXVII, 2015, vol. 9354, p. 93540O.
K. Riesing, Development of a pointing, acquisition, and tracking system for a nanosatellite laser communications module, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015.
K. Cahoy, Blackwell, W., Marinan, A., Bishop, R., Leslie, R. Vincent, Shields, M., Marlow, W. Alan Navar, and Kennedy, A., Development of the Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) CubeSat for all-weather atmospheric sounding, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2015, vol. 2015, p. A51S-09.
M. Webber, Lewis, N. K., Marley, M. S., Morley, C. V., Fortney, J. J., and Cahoy, K., Effect of Longitude-dependent Cloud Coverage on Exoplanet Visible Wavelength Reflected-light Phase Curves, vol. 804, p. 94, 2015.
M. Webber, Lewis, N. K., Marley, M. S., Morley, C. V., Fortney, J. J., and Cahoy, K., Effect of Longitudinally Varying Cloud Coverage on Visible Wavelength Reflected-Light Exoplanet Phase Curves, ArXiv e-prints, p. arXiv:1503.01028, 2015.
K. Cahoy, Belikov, R., Stapelfeldt, K., Chakrabarti, S., Trauger, J., Serabyn, E., McElwain, M., Pong, C., and Brugarolas, P., Enabling Technologies for Characterizing Exoplanet Systems with Exo-C, in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts \#225, 2015, vol. 225, p. 259.07.
E. Douglas, Hewasawam, K., Mendillo, C. Bernard, Cahoy, K., Cook, T. A., Finn, S. C., Howe, G. A., Kuchner, M., Lewis, N. K., Marinan, A., Mawet, D., and Chakrabarti, S., End-to-end simulation of high-contrast imaging systems: methods and results for the PICTURE mission family, in Proc. SPIE, 2015, vol. 9605, p. 96051A-96051A-13.
K. Stapelfeldt, Dekens, F. G., Brenner, M. P., Warfield, K. R., Belikov, R., Brugarolas, P., Bryden, G., Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Dubovitsky, S., Effinger, R. T., Hirsch, B., Kissil, A., Krist, J., Lang, J. J., Marley, M. S., McElwain, M., Meadows, V., Nissen, J., Oseas, J. M., Pong, C., Serabyn, E., Sunada, E., Trauger, J., and Unwin, S. C., Exo-C: a probe-scale space observatory for direct imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planetary systems, in Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VII, 2015, vol. 9605, p. 96050T.
K. Stapelfeldt, Belikov, R., Bryden, G., Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Marley, M. S., McElwain, M., Meadows, V., Serabyn, E., Trauger, J., and , Exo-C imaging nearby worlds, by the Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) and the Exo-C Design team, final report, http://exep. jpl. nasa. gov/stdt/Exo-C\_Final\_Report\_for\_Unlimited\_Release\_150323. pdf, 2015.
A. Carlton and Cahoy, K., Geostationary Communications Satellites as Sensors for the Space Weather Environment: Telemetry Event Identification Algorithms, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2015, vol. 2015, p. SA13B-2357.
T. Nguyen, Laser beacon tracking for free-space optical communication on small-satellite platforms in low-earth orbit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015.
T. Nguyen and Cahoy, K., Laser beacon tracking for high-accuracy attitude determination, 2015.
W. Alan Navar Marlow, Cahoy, K., Males, J., Carlton, A., and Yoon, H., Laser Guidestar Satellite for Ground-based Adaptive Optics Imaging of Geosynchronous Satellites and Astronomical Targets, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2015, vol. 2015, p. SH43B-2451.
C. Bernard Mendillo, Brown, J., Martel, J., Howe, G. A., Hewasawam, K., Finn, S. C., Cook, T. A., Chakrabarti, S., Douglas, E., Mawet, D., Guyon, O., Singh, G., Lozi, J., Cahoy, K., and Marinan, A., The low-order wavefront sensor for the PICTURE-C mission, in Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VII, 2015, vol. 9605, p. 960519.
R. Kingsbury, Optical communications for small satellites, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015.
T. Cook, Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Douglas, E., Finn, S. C., Kuchner, M., Lewis, N. K., Marinan, A., Martel, J., Mawet, D., Mazin, B., Meeker, S. R., Mendillo, C. Bernard, Serabyn, E., Stuchlik, D., and Swain, M. R., Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment–Coronagraph (PICTURE C), Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 1, pp. 044001-044001, 2015.
A. Kennedy, Resource optimization algorithms for an automated coordinated CubeSat constellation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015.

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