4 papers
Data-driven subspace predictive control of adaptive optics for high-contrast imaging
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +11
The search for exoplanets is pushing adaptive optics systems on ground-based telescopes to their limits. One of the major limitations at small angular separations, exactly where ex…
Concept for the GMT High-Contrast Exoplanet Instrument GMagAO-X and the GMT High-Contrast Phasing Testbed with MagAO-X
Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Alex Hedglen +2
Here we review the current conceptual optical mechanical design of GMagAO-X --the extreme AO (ExAO) system for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The GMagAO-X tweeter deformable m…
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…
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…