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Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake. How do Planetary Systems Form?
I. Mendigutía, N. Huélamo, I. Jiménez-Serra +32
The detection and characterization of protoplanets in protoplanetary disks around young stars is emerging as a transformative field that will redefine our understanding of how plan…
The next frontier in exoplanet science: Imaging our neighbouring planetary systems
Ignas Snellen, Sebastiaan Haffert, Matthew Kenworthy +1
Transmission and eclipse spectroscopy have been invaluable tools for the characterisation of extrasolar planet atmospheres. While they will continue to provide many new insights an…
Single-shot focal plane wavefront sensing with the spatially-clipped self-coherent camera
Joshua Liberman, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +2
The Habitable Worlds Observatory requires active speckle suppression to directly image Earth-like exoplanets. Focal plane wavefront sensing and control allows us to detect, and sub…
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 7. design, fabrication, and first light for a self-coherent camera
Kevin Derby, Kian Milani, Grace C. Hathaway +10
The 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics tasked future space observatories with the goal of detecting and characterizing a large sample of Earth-like exoplanets. To ac…
WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): A Gap-clearing Planet in a Multi-ringed Disk around the Young Solar-type Star WISPIT 2
Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Christian Ginski, Matthew A. Kenworthy +17
In the past decades several thousand exoplanet systems have been discovered around evolved, main-sequence stars, revealing a wide diversity in their architectures. To understand ho…
Wide Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Discovery of a Gap H Protoplanet WISPIT 2b with MagAO-X
Laird M. Close, Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Gabriel Weible +34
Excellent (<25 mas) H images of the star TYC 5709-354-1 led to the discovery of a rare H protoplanet. This star was discovered by the WISPIT survey to have a large multi-ri…
Adding colour to the Zernike wavefront sensor: Advantages of including multi-wavelength measurements for wavefront reconstruction
M. Darcis, S. Y. Haffert, V. Chambouleyron +3
To directly image Earth-like planets, contrast levels of 10^-8 - 10^-10 are required. The next generation of instruments will need wavefront control below the nanometer level to ac…
Discovery of H Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X
Jialin Li, Laird M. Close, Feng Long +32
2MASS J16120668-3010270 (hereafter 2MJ1612) is a young M0 star that hosts a protoplanetary disk in the Upper Scorpious star-forming region. Recent ALMA observations of 2MJ1612 show…
High-Contrast Coronagraphy
Matthew A. Kenworthy, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert
Imaging terrestrial exoplanets around nearby stars is a formidable technical challenge, requiring the development of coronagraphs to suppress the stellar halo of diffracted light a…
Five New Sirius-Like White Dwarf + Main Sequence Star Systems with MagAO-X
Logan A. Pearce, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +20
Most known white dwarfs in multiple systems with main sequence stars have been discovered with M-type companions, because the white dwarf causes detectable UV excess and bluer colo…
A planetary-mass candidate imaged in the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey
Pengyu Liu, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Beth A. Biller +26
Directly imaged exoplanets in wide orbits challenge current gas giant formation theories. They need to form quickly and acquire enough material before the disk dissipates, which ca…
Three Years of High-Contrast Imaging of the PDS 70 b and c Exoplanets at Hα with MagAO-X: Evidence of Strong Protoplanet Hα Variability and Circumplanetary Dust
Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Jialin Li +23
We present 3 years of high-contrast imaging of the PDS 70 b and c accreting protoplanets with the new extreme AO system MagAO-X as part of the MaxProtoPlanetS survey of H protop…
Evidence for Variable Accretion onto PDS 70 c and Implications for Protoplanet Detections
Yifan Zhou, Brendan P. Bowler, Aniket Sanghi +14
Understanding the processes of planet formation and accretion in young systems is essential to unraveling the initial conditions of planetary systems. The PDS 70 system, which host…
Phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope: Lab Experiments and First On-sky Demonstration
Maggie Y. Kautz, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close +21
The large apertures of the upcoming generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes will enable unprecedented angular resolutions that scale as /D and higher sensitivi…
Polarization aberrations in next-generation Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs). II. Influence of segment-to-segment coating variations on high-contrast imaging and polarimetry
Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ramya M. Anche, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +8
Direct exo-Earth imaging is a key science goal for astronomy in the next decade. This ambitious task imposes a target contrast of ~10^-7 at wavelengths from I to J-band. In our pri…