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First high-contrast results on THD2 testbed after infrastructure upgrade
Iva Laginja, Pierre Baudoz, Rémi Soummer +17
We present the first scientific results delivered by the upgraded THD2 high-contrast imaging testbed. We report two advances enabled by its improved stability and broadband perform…
Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek
Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94
We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the Pictoris system. We detect Pictoris d ( Pic d) in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERI…
Vector Apodizing Phase Plates for the ELT: From prototype to final optics for METIS and MICADO
J. A. van den Born, R. Landman, D. S. Doelman +12
The first generation of instruments for the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will allow for the direct imaging of exoplanets that were previously below the sensitivity or r…
SUPPPPRESS: Prototyping and testing liquid-crystal vector vortex coronagraphs with reduced polarization leakage
Rico Landman, David Doelman, Jeroen Rietjens +16
The vortex coronagraph is one of the most promising candidates for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) due to its excellent theoretical performance for an off-axis telescope. A…
The VLT/ERIS grating vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph
M. A. Kenworthy, F. A. Dannert, J. Hayoz +29
We describe the design, laboratory manufacture, and on-sky testing of the grating vector apodizing phase plate (gvAPP) coronagraph for the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrogra…
The TOLIMAN mission: A low-cost space telescope for high precision narrow-angle astrometry
Peter Tuthill, Christopher Betters, Max Charles +29
The TOLIMAN project is engaged with the construction, launch and operation of a low-cost space telescope of unorthodox optical design. Its primary science goal targets an exhaustiv…
Chasing the storm: Investigating the application of high-contrast imaging techniques in producing precise exoplanet light curves
Ben J. Sutlieff, David S. Doelman, Jayne L. Birkby +10
Substellar companions such as exoplanets and brown dwarfs exhibit changes in brightness arising from top-of-atmosphere inhomogeneities, providing insights into their atmospheric st…
The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL) 2.0: A reflective, multi-wavelength rebuild
Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Vincent Chambouleyron, Prince Javier +20
The Santa cruz Extreme Adaptive optics Lab (SEAL) is a visible/near-infrared wavelength testbed designed to support technology development for high contrast imaging on large, segme…
Detecting alien living worlds and photosynthetic life using imaging polarimetry with the HWO coronagraph
Svetlana Berdyugina, Lucas Patty, Jonathan Grone +10
Our Earth, being the only living planet that we know, provides us with clues that photosynthetic life-forms may be dominant on other exoplanets for billions of years. Spectropolari…
VSTPOL: making the VST a large survey telescope for optical polarimetry
P. Schipani, S. Covino, F. Snik +30
Since the start of operations in 2011, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has been one of the most efficient wide-field imagers in the optical bands. However, in the next years the Ver…
Prototyping liquid-crystal coronagraphs for exo-Earth imaging
Iva Laginja, David Doelman, Frans Snik +12
This paper presents initial results from the ESA-funded ``SUPPPPRESS'' project, which aims to develop high-performance liquid-crystal coronagraphs for direct imaging of Earth-like…
METIS high-contrast imaging: from final design to manufacturing and testing
Olivier Absil, Matthew Kenworthy, Christian Delacroix +21
The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) is one of the first-generation scientific instruments for the ELT, built under the supervision of ESO by a consortium of resear…
Sub-percent Characterization and Polarimetric Performance Analysis of Commercial Micro-polarizer Array Detectors
Thijs Stockmans, Naor Scheinowitz, Erwoud van der Linden +4
Polarization imaging can yield crucial information in multiple applications of remote sensing, such as characterization of clouds, aerosols, and the Aurora Borealis. Some applicati…
First on-sky demonstration of spatial Linear Dark Field Control with the vector-Apodizing Phase Plate at Subaru/SCExAO
S. P. Bos, K. L. Miller, J. Lozi +9
One of the key noise sources that currently limits high-contrast imaging observations for exoplanet detection is quasi-static speckles. Quasi-static speckles originate from slowly…
ERIS: revitalising an adaptive optics instrument for the VLT
Richard Davies, Simone Esposito, Hans Martin Schmid +63
ERIS is an instrument that will both extend and enhance the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for the VLT. It will replace two instruments that ar…