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Spectral Selection in Sphere-Constrained Flows Generated by Polynomials of the Dirichlet Laplacian
Javed Hussain
Let be a bounded smooth domain and let be the positive Dirichlet Laplacian on . For a real polynomial with positive leading coefficient, w…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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…
The spectral energy distribution of YSES 1 b and its circumplanetary disc
Michiel Darcis, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Tomas Stolker +18
Context. Direct imaging enables the characterisation of substellar companions on wide orbits. These objects provide a testbed for our formation theories; therefore, it is important…
Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Complex Mask Coronagraph (PIAACMC) on-sky demonstration with MagAO-X
Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Haffert, Warren Foster +18
Advancing the technological development of small inner working angle (IWA) coronagraphs is essential to enabling high-contrast imaging of temperate exoplanets with future extremely…
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…
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…
Making the unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensor smart II. First on-sky demonstration of extreme adaptive optics with deep learning
R. Landman, S. Y. Haffert, J. D. Long +17
Pyramid wavefront sensors (PWFSs) are the preferred choice for current and future extreme adaptive optics (XAO) systems. Almost all instruments use the PWFS in its modulated form t…
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…
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…
Challenge of direct imaging of exoplanets within structures: disentangling real signal from point source from background light
Jialin Li, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males +19
The high contrast and spatial resolution requirements for directly imaging exoplanets requires effective coordination of wavefront control, coronagraphy, observation techniques, an…
On-sky, real-time optical gain calibration on MagAO-X using incoherent speckles
Eden A. McEwen, Jared R. Males, Olivier Guyon +15
The next generation of extreme adaptive optics (AO) must be calibrated exceptionally well to achieve the desired contrast for ground-based direct imaging exoplanet targets. Current…
More data than you want, less data than you need: machine learning approaches to starlight subtraction with MagAO-X
Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +17
High-contrast imaging data analysis depends on removing residual starlight from the host star to reveal planets and disks. Most observers do this with principal components analysis…
Making the unmodulated Pyramid wavefront sensor smart. Closed-loop demonstration of neural network wavefront reconstruction with MagAO-X
Rico Landman, Sebastiaan Haffert, Jared Males +12
Almost all current and future high-contrast imaging instruments will use a Pyramid wavefront sensor (PWFS) as a primary or secondary wavefront sensor. The main issue with the PWFS…
MagAO-X and HST high-contrast imaging of the AS209 disk at H
Gabriele Cugno, Yifan Zhou, Thanawuth Thanathibodee +22
The detection of emission lines associated with accretion processes is a direct method for studying how and where gas giant planets form, how young planets interact with their nata…
Implicit electric field Conjugation: Data-driven focal plane control
S. Y. Haffert, J. R. Males, K. Ahn +11
Direct imaging of Earth-like planets is one of the main science cases for the next generation of extremely large telescopes. This is very challenging due to the star-planet contras…
HIP 67506 C: MagAO-X Confirmation of a New Low-Mass Stellar Companion to HIP 67506 A
Logan A. Pearce, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +17
We report the confirmation of HIP 67506 C, a new stellar companion to HIP 67506 A. We previously reported a candidate signal at 2/D (240~mas) in L in MagAO/Clio imagi…
Three-sided pyramid wavefront sensor. II. Preliminary demonstration on the new CACTI testbed
Lauren Schatz, Johanan Codona, Joseph D. Long +17
The next generation of giant ground and space telescopes will have the light-collecting power to detect and characterize potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets using high-con…