3 papers
astro-ph.IM2022
Experimental Trials With The Optical Differentiation Wavefront Sensor For Extended Objects
Meghan Farris O'Brien, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Joseph D. Long +4
Commonly used wavefront sensors, the Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor and the pyramid wavefront sensor, for example, have large dynamic range or high sensitivity, trading one regime…
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
MagAO-X: current status and plans for Phase II
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Haffert +15
We present a status update for MagAO-X, a 2000 actuator, 3.6 kHz adaptive optics and coronagraph system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope. MagAO-X is optimized for high contras…