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No need to modulate: On-sky results of a Neural Network enhanced pyramid wavefront sensor and prospects for the ELTs
Rico Landman, Liam Koning, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +20
One of the main limitations of ground-based extreme adaptive optics systems (XAO) is the balance between the temporal and photon noise error. The unmodulated Pyramid Wavefront Sens…
Digging dark holes on-sky with the Self-Coherent Camera: Preliminary results
Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +17
Current high-contrast imaging instruments are limited by wavefront errors originating from non-common path aberrations (NCPAs) due, for example, to manufacturing errors in the opti…
On-sky demonstration of self-learning predictive control with MagAO-X
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Parker T. Johnson +13
Direct imaging of exoplanets is very tricky and requires extremely well corrected wavefronts. Especially low-order order modes are detrimental to the performance of coronagraphs at…
Sub-diffraction-limited coronagraphic imaging with nano-printed PIAACMC phase masks
Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Warren B. Foster +22
Imaging Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone of their host star is among the main science objectives of future ground-based and space-based observatories. However, the extre…
The final design of GMagAO-X: the wavefront sensing and control (WFS&C) architecture of GMagAO-X
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +10
The Giant Magellan Adaptive Optics eXtreme (GMagAO-X) instrument has now been selected as an official part of the Giant Magellan Telescope's (GMT) instrument suite. The instrument…
Quantum-optimal instruments for high-contrast imaging with multi-plane light converters
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Yinzi Xin, Rico Landman
Spatial Mode Demultiplexers (SPADE) are devices that split an incoming wavefront into a particular set of electric field modes. SPADEs have been shown to be quantum-optimal for man…
The Photonic Lantern Nuller: from concept to laboratory and on-sky demonstrations
Yinzi Xin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Dimitri Mawet +18
This thesis work presents the conceptual design and experimental characterization of the Photonic Lantern Nuller instrument, which uses a multimode-to-single-mode demultiplexing wa…
Demonstration of simultaneous PIAA- coronagraphy and wavefront sensing using a single metasurface-based focal-plane optic
Dhwanil Patel, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Skyler Palatnick +23
Controlling residual wavefront aberrations downstream of an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system is a major challenge in high-contrast imaging. These aberrations produce quasi-sta…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: early calibration plan and pilot observation of a companion
Julien H. Girard, Eric Cady, Neil T. Zimmerman +42
Roman is set to launch in weeks! The Coronagraph Instrument - technology pathfinder for future direct imaging missions - is ready to fly too. According to predictions, laboratory t…
The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: pre-launch reference star list and impact of reference star properties on post-processing performance
Justin Hom, Schuyler G. Wolff, Jessica Gersh-Range +51
The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstra…
Comparing realtime optical gain measurement and methods on MagAO-X
Eden McEwen, Jared R. Males, Olivier Guyon +20
A lingering technical challenge for pyramid wavefront sensors (PyWFS) is their change in response between calibration and correction residuals, a quantity known as optical gain (OG…
Closed-loop Atmospheric Dispersion Correction for High-Contrast Imaging with MagAO-X
Katie Twitchell, Sebastiaan Haffert, Jared R. Males +17
Incoming starlight is refracted as it enters Earth's atmosphere from the vacuum of space. The wavelength-dependence of atmospheric refraction causes elongation of the broadband PSF…
windsoCC: reconstructing the wind-driven halo in MagAO-X images using wavefront sensor telemetry
Jay K. Kueny, Jared R. Males, Alycia J. Weinberger +16
The wind-driven halo (WDH) is a persistent, low spatial frequency noise artifact that arises due to the servo-lag error inherent to all adaptive optics (AO) instruments. Spatial fi…
The final design of GMagAO-X: high-contrast imaging at first-light of the GMT
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +13
GMagAO-X will be the first-light high-contrast imager on the 25 m Giant Magellan Telescope. The driving science case for GMagAO-X is characterization of the atmospheres of nearby r…
Sensor fusion on MagAO-X: real time vibration control using accelerometers
Parker T. Johnson, Jared R. Males, Povilas Palunas +16
Mechanical vibrations are a significant source of residual wavefront error (WFE) in adaptive optics (AO) systems, limiting the performance of high-contrast imaging instruments. We…
The eXtreme Wavefront Control Toolkit: High-Contrast Imaging Instrument Control for Ground and Space-Based Coronagraphs
Jared R. Males, Joseph D. Long, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +16
We present the eXtreme Wavefront Control Toolkit (XWCTk) instrument control software system developed for the MagAO-X extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) instrument. The XWCTk is built…
Freezing the speckles: focal plane wavefront sensing with the spatially-clipped self-coherent camera
Joshua Liberman, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +8
The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) and the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) require active speckle suppression to directly image exo-Earths. Focal plane wav…
Visible-Light High-Contrast Polarimetry with MagAO-X: Characterization and Initial Results
Miles Lucas, Laird Close, Jared R. Males +22
MagAO-X is a visible-light extreme adaptive optics instrument on the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay Telescope, recently upgraded to enable high-contrast polarimetric differential imaging…
Optimal mode-sorting coronagraphy: limits of single-moded measurements for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Yinzi Xin, Sebastiaan Haffert, Rico Landman
Conventional coronagraph architectures struggle to reach the theoretical limit of exoplanet detection at close working angles. Spatial mode-sorting is capable of reaching the theor…
Tolerancing the PIAA-ZWFS: a practical and robust wavefront sensor that approaches the fundamental sensitivity limit
Adam K. Taras, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Louis Desdoigts
High-contrast imaging demands extremely sensitive wavefront sensing to correct atmospheric effects and surface errors. While the limits of the sensitivity of a wavefront sensor are…
On-sky dark hole diggin' with implicit Electric Field Conjugation on MagAO-X
S. Y. Haffert, J. Liberman, J. R. Males +17
Direct spectroscopy is very promising approach to characterizing the atmospheres of nearby rocky exoplanets. Non-common path aberrations (NCPA) are differential aberrations between…
Quantum-optimal coronagraphy with spatial mode sorting for direct exoplanet observations
Yinzi Xin, Sebastiaan Haffert, Yoo Jung Kim +1
Conventional coronagraphs struggle to reach the theoretical limit of exoplanet detection at close separations to the star, particularly when the telescope has a complex aperture or…
Differentiable design of the PIAA-ZWFS: a flexible wavefront sensor that approaches the fundamental limit
A. K. Taras, S. Y. Haffert, L. Desdoigts
Extreme adaptive optics (AO) is necessary for high contrast astronomy at scales of the habitable zone of nearby systems. We seek to evaluate wavefront sensors that approach fundame…
ffortissimo: A Freeform Forward-Modeling Pipeline for High-Contrast Images of Circumstellar Disks Based on Automatic Differentiation
Jay K. Kueny, Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males +16
Modeling circumstellar disks in the traditional sense carries the assumption that the dust density distribution can be accurately described with a fixed parametric form. Furthermor…