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astro-ph.IM2026

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): X. Dark zone maintenance

Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian, Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya Anche +12

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a vacuum high contrast imaging testbed designed to demonstrate starlight suppression at optical wavelengths and obtain contrasts bett…

astro-ph.IM2026

Testing of machine learning wavefront sensing algorithms on the Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO) testbed

Sanchit Sabhlok, Solvay A. Blomquist, Maggie Y +16

Phase retrieval techniques are utilized to correct low order wavefront aberrations originating from misalignments of the optical system in space based telescope concepts. Tradition…

astro-ph.IM2026

Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO): testing algorithms for autonomous on-orbit alignment for space-based telescope systems

Solvay A. Blomquist, Sanchit Sabhlok, Hyukmo Kang +11

The Tiny Observatory for Telescope Optimization (TOTO) is an optical testbed designed to evaluate the efficacy of autonomously driven alignment algorithms for space-based telescope…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities

Arpita Roy, Stuart Feldman, Pete Klupar +51

The Lazuli Space Observatory is a 3-meter aperture astronomical facility designed for rapid-response observations and precision astrophysics across visible to near-infrared wavelen…

astro-ph.IM2022

XPipeline: Starlight subtraction at scale for MagAO-X

Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +15

MagAO-X is an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) instrument for the Magellan Clay 6.5-meter telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Its high spatial and temporal resolution can…

astro-ph.IM2022

Advanced wavefront sensing and control demonstration with MagAO-X

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Kyle Van Gorkom +13

The search for exoplanets is pushing adaptive optics systems on ground-based telescopes to their limits. Currently, we are limited by two sources of noise: the temporal control err…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Holographic Dispersed Fringe Sensors (HDFS): phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close, Alexander D. Hedglen +14

The next generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMT) will have large gaps between the segments either caused by the shadow of the mechanical structure of the secondary m…

astro-ph.IM2021

High contrast imaging at the photon noise limit with self-calibrating WFS/C systems

Olivier Guyon, Barnaby Norris, Marc-Antoine Martinod +20

High contrast imaging (HCI) systems rely on active wavefront control (WFC) to deliver deep raw contrast in the focal plane, and on calibration techniques to further enhance contras…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

SCExAO, a testbed for developing high-contrast imaging technologies for ELTs

Kyohoon Ahn, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi +21

To directly detect exoplanets and protoplanetary disks, the development of high accuracy wavefront sensing and control (WFS&C) technologies is essential, especially for ground-base…

astro-ph.IM2021

Characterizing deformable mirrors for the MagAO-X instrument

Kyle Van Gorkom, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +11

The MagAO-X instrument is a new extreme adaptive optics system for high-contrast imaging at visible and near-infrared wavelengths on the Magellan Clay Telescope. A central componen…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

First on-sky demonstration of spatial Linear Dark Field Control with the vector-Apodizing Phase Plate at Subaru/SCExAO

S. P. Bos, K. L. Miller, J. Lozi +9

One of the key noise sources that currently limits high-contrast imaging observations for exoplanet detection is quasi-static speckles. Quasi-static speckles originate from slowly…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 27 cited

The vector-apodizing phase plate coronagraph: design, current performance, and future development

D. S. Doelman, F. Snik, E. H. Por +50

Over the last decade, the vector-apodizing phase plate (vAPP) coronagraph has been developed from concept to on-sky application in many high-contrast imaging systems on 8-m class t…

astro-ph.IM2021

New concepts in vector-Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraphy

Steven P. Bos, David S. Doelman, Kelsey L. Miller +1

The vector-Apodizing Phase Plate (vAPP) is a pupil-plane coronagraph that manipulates phase to create dark holes in the stellar PSF. The phase is induced on the circular polarizati…

astro-ph.IM2020

Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing on SUBARU/SCExAO

Sebastien Vievard, Steven P. Bos, Frederic Cassaing +20

Focal plane wavefront sensing is an elegant solution for wavefront sensing since near-focal images of any source taken by a detector show distortions in the presence of aberrations…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark Field Control For Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light

Thayne Currie, Eugene Pluzhnik, Olivier Guyon +15

Imaging planets in reflected light, a key focus of future NASA missions and ELTs, requires advanced wavefront control to maintain a deep, temporally correlated null of stellar halo…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 23 cited

Focal-plane wavefront sensing with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate

Steven P. Bos, David S. Doelman, Julien Lozi +6

In this article we show that the vector-Apodizing Phase Plate (vAPP) coronagraph can be designed such that the coronagraphic point spread functions (PSFs) can act as a wavefront se…

astro-ph.IM2018

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes III. Technology opportunities and pathways

Frans Snik, Olivier Absil, Pierre Baudoz +30

The Optimal Optical CoronagraphWorkshop at the Lorentz Center in September 2017 in Leiden, the Netherlands gathered a diverse group of 25 researchers working on exoplanet instrumen…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground-based and space-based telescopes II. Common path wavefront sensing/control and Coherent Differential Imaging

Nemanja Jovanovic, Olivier Absil, Pierre Baudoz +28

The Optimal Optical Coronagraph (OOC) Workshop held at the Lorentz Center in September 2017 in Leiden, the Netherlands, gathered a diverse group of 25 researchers working on exopla…

astro-ph.IM2018

Modeling coronagraphic extreme wavefront control systems for high contrast imaging in ground and space telescope missions

Jennifer Lumbres, Jared Males, Ewan Douglas +17

The challenges of high contrast imaging (HCI) for detecting exoplanets for both ground and space applications can be met with extreme adaptive optics (ExAO), a high-order adaptive…

astro-ph.IM2018

Focal plane wavefront sensing and control strategies for high-contrast imaging on the MagAO-X instrument

Kelsey Miller, Jared R. Males, Olivier Guyon +14

The Magellan extreme adaptive optics (MagAO-X) instrument is a new extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system designed for operation in the visible to near-IR which will deliver high co…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Characterization of deformable mirrors for the MagAO-X project

Kyle Van Gorkom, Kelsey L. Miller, Jared R. Males +4

The MagAO-X instrument is an upgrade of the Magellan AO system that will introduce extreme adaptive optics capabilities for high-contrast imaging at visible and near-infrared wavel…

astro-ph.IM2018

Design of the MagAO-X Pyramid Wavefront Sensor

Lauren H. Schatz, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +11

Adaptive optics systems correct atmospheric turbulence in real time. Most adaptive optics systems used routinely correct in the near infrared, at wavelengths greater than 1 micron.…

astro-ph.IM2018

MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results

Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Kelsey Miller +32

MagAO-X is an entirely new "extreme" adaptive optics system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope, funded by the NSF MRI program starting in Sep 2016. The key science goal of MagAO…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Optical and mechanical design of the extreme AO coronagraphic instrument MagAO-X

Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Olivier Durney +9

Here we review the current optical mechanical design of MagAO-X. The project is post-PDR and has finished the design phase. The design presented here is the baseline to which all t…