M.A. (Matthew) Kenworthy
M.A. (Matthew) Kenworthy
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Born and raised in Epsom, on the outskirts of London, Matthew Kenworthy gained an M.A. in Physics at the
University of Oxford at
Christ Church and received his PhD in Astronomical Instrumentation from the
University of Cambridge in 1999 under the supervision of Ian Parry. He moved to the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics at
Steward Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, for two years before moving to the University of Cincinnati for a postdoc position with Margaret Hanson. The lure of instrumentation proved to be too strong, however, and he moved back to Steward Observatory to become Instrument Scientist for the world's first deformable secondary mirror adaptive optic system from 2003 to 2007.
In 2007 he became an Assistant Astronomer at Steward Observatory, involved in thermal imaging and searches for extrasolar planets. He uses a combination of coronagraphic optics, point spread function modelling and other various techniques in a quest to look closer in to the bright halos of star images to search for signs of companion planets.
In 2010 he moved over to the Netherlands to become an Assistant Professor at Leiden Observatory, becoming Associate Professor in 2015.
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Publications
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2023
Chasing rainbows and ocean glints
Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Sophia R. Vaughan / Timothy D. Gebhard / Nicolas B. Cowan / David S. Doelman / Matthew Kenworthy / Victor J.H. Trees / Daphne M. Stam / Bernhard Brandl / Evangelia Kleisioti / More Authors -
2023
Tidally heated exomoons around Ïμ Eridani b
Observability and prospects for characterization
E. Kleisioti / D. Dirkx / M. Rovira Navarro / M.A. Kenworthy -
2020
Erratum
METIS high-contrast imaging: Design and expected performance (J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. (2020) 6: 3 (035005) DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.6.3.035005)
Brunella Carlomagno / Christian Delacroix / Olivier Absil / Faustine Cantalloube / Gilles Orban de Xivry / Prashant Pathak / Tibor Agocs / Bernhard Brandl / Matthew Kenworthy / More Authors -
2020
METIS high-contrast imaging: design and expected performance
Brunella Carlomagno / Christian Delacroix / Olivier Absil / Faustine Cantalloube / Gilles Orban de Xivry / Prashant Pathak / Tibor Agocs / Bernhard Brandl / Matthew Kenworthy
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2018
A review of high contrast imaging modes for METIS
Matthew A. Kenworthy / Olivier Absil / Brunella Carlomagno / Tibor Agócs / Emiel H. Por / Steven Bos / Bernhard Brandl / Frans Snik
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