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Addressing the low-wind effect with the Lyot-based low-order wavefront sensor on SCExAO
Garima Singh, Sebastien Vievard, Julien Lozi +5
The Low-Wind Effect (LWE) is a well-known issue that affects the coronagraphic capabilities of instruments optimized to take direct images of exoplanets. This effect is prominent i…
AO3k + SCExAO: on-sky wavefront quality and demonstration of novel WFS techniques with the double XAO system
Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Vincent Deo +5
The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system, fed by its upstream 3000-actuator "woofer" (AO3k), serves both as a platform for high contrast imaging (HCI) techn…
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…
SCExAO/CHARIS High-Contrast Pre-Launch Vetting of Roman Coronagraph Technology Demonstration PSF Reference Stars
Thayne Currie, Jie Li, Mona El Morsy +9
We present deep, SCExAO/CHARIS high-contrast integral field spectroscopy and archival imaging of four candidate Roman Coronagraph PSF reference stars within/near the Roman Continuo…
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…
Updating the SCExAO/CHARIS polarimetric calibration following the Nasmyth beam-switcher upgrade
Thomas McIntosh, Manxuan Zhang, Briley L. Lewis +18
Subaru/SCExAO/CHARIS enables near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry. Quantitative polarimetry is useful for a variety of science cases, particularly measurements related t…
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…
Technology and Science Advancing Observations with Roman Coronagraph Informed by Ground-Based High-Contrast Imaging
Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Brianna Lacy +10
The Roman Coronagraph technology demonstration focuses on achieving 10 contrasts within the instrument's dark hole and our ability to detect and characterize properties…
FIRST-PL: Commissioning the first visible photonic lantern spectrograph for sub-diffraction-limit astronomy on Subaru/SCExAO
Sebastien Vievard, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +18
FIRST-PL (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope - Photonic Lantern) is a newly commissioned visible-light instrument on Subaru/SCExAO achieving spectroscopy below the diffraction l…
He'e-Lab: A modular testbed for astrophotonics and wavefront sensing development
Sebastien Vievard, Christopher Hamner, Nour Skaf +14
Advanced astronomical instrumentation requires accessible, reconfigurable platforms to validate novel technologies and algorithms before on-sky deployment. We present the design, a…
Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates
Taichi Uyama, Thayne Currie, Jerry W. Xuan +22
We present the discovery of a low-mass companion located at 0\farcs{}85 () from the early-type 1.2 Gyr-old star HIP 53005 using direct imagin…
SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet 3--4 lambda/D from the Accelerating Star HIP 54515
Thayne Currie, Yiting Li, Mona El Morsy +28
We present the discovery of a superjovian planet around the young A5 star HIP 54515, detected using precision astrometry from the Hipparcos Gaia Catalogue of Accelerations and high…
OASIS Survey Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of HIP 71618 B: A Substellar Companion Suitable for the Roman Coronagraph Technology Demonstration
Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Brianna Lacy +27
We present the OASIS survey program discovery of a substellar companion orbiting the young A1V star HIP 71618, detected using precision astrometry from Gaia and Hipparcos and high-…
On-sky Demonstration of Subdiffraction-limited Astronomical Measurement Using a Photonic Lantern
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Sébastien Vievard +18
Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescop…
Multi-band Spectral and Astrometric Characterization of the HIP 99770 b Planet with SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia
Danielle Bovie, Thayne Currie, Mona El Morsy +12
We present and analyze follow-up, higher resolution ( 70) and band integral field spectroscopy of the superjovian exoplanet HIP 99770 b with SCExAO/CHARIS. Our ne…
Dynamical Analysis of the HD 169142 Planet-Forming Disk: Twelve Years of High-Contrast Polarimetry
Miles Lucas, Michael Bottom, Ruobing Dong +19
We present a dynamical analysis of the HD 169142 planet-forming disk based on high-contrast polarimetric imaging over a twelve-year observational period, offering insights into its…
PIRATES -- a machine-learning framework for polarized, interferometric image reconstruction
Lucinda Lilley, Barnaby Norris, Peter Tuthill +13
Optical interferometric image reconstruction is a challenging, ill-posed optimization problem which usually relies on heavy regularization for convergence. Conventional algorithms…
Experimental and on-sky demonstration of spectrally dispersed wavefront sensing using a photonic lantern
Jonathan Lin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +12
Adaptive optics systems are critical in any application where highly resolved imaging or beam control must be performed through a dynamic medium. Such applications include astronom…
Apollon Real-Time Adaptive Optics (ARTAO) -- Astronomy-Inspired Wavefront Stabilization in Ultraintense Lasers
Jonas Benjamin Ohland, Nathalie Lebas, Vincent Deo +4
Traditional wavefront control in high-energy, high-intensity laser systems usually lacks real-time capability, failing to address dynamic aberrations. This limits experimental accu…
Visible-Light High-Contrast Imaging and Polarimetry with SCExAO/VAMPIRES
Miles Lucas, Barnaby Norris, Olivier Guyon +17
We present significant upgrades to the VAMPIRES instrument, a visible-light (600 nm to 800 nm) high-contrast imaging polarimeter integrated within SCExAO on the Subaru telescope. K…
SCExAO/CHARIS Near-Infrared Scattered-Light Imaging and Integral Field Spectropolarimetry of the AB Aurigae Protoplanetary System
Erica Dykes, Thayne Currie, Kellen Lawson +21
We analyze near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry of the AB Aurigae protoplanetary disk and protoplanet (AB Aur b), obtained with SCExAO/CHARIS in 22 wavelength channels c…
Real-time control and data standardization on various telescopes and benches
Nour Skaf, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Aaron Hunter +19
Real-time control (RTC) is pivotal for any Adaptive Optics (AO) system, including high-contrast imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar environments. It is the brain of the AO syst…
Design, scientific goals, and performance of the SCExAO survey for planets around accelerating stars
Mona El Morsy, Thayne Currie, Masayuki Kuzuhara +25
We describe the motivation, design, and early results for our 42-night, 125 star Subaru/SCExAO direct imaging survey for planets around accelerating stars. Unlike prior large surve…