activity
20182026
most citedTowards on-sky adaptive optics control using reinforcement learning

31 citations · 86 across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2022Show all

10 papers · 1 filter

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

Advanced wavefront sensing and control demonstration with MagAO-X

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Kyle Van Gorkom +13

The search for exoplanets is pushing adaptive optics systems on ground-based telescopes to their limits. Currently, we are limited by two sources of noise: the temporal control err…

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…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

The Visible Integral-field Spectrograph eXtreme (VIS-X): high-resolution spectroscopy with MagAO-X

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +9

MagAO-X system is a new adaptive optics for the Magellan Clay 6.5m telescope. MagAO-X has been designed to provide extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) performance in the visible. VIS-X…

astro-ph.IM2022

The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 2. wavefront sensing and control in a vacuum-compatible coronagraph testbed for spaceborne high-contrast imaging technology

Kyle Van Gorkom, Ewan S. Douglas, Jaren N. Ashcraft +9

The 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics endorsed space-based high contrast imaging for the detection and characterization of habitable exoplanets as a key priority fo…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 1. Design and Assembly of a Vacuum-compatible Coronagraph Testbed for Spaceborne High-Contrast Imaging Technology

Jaren N. Ashcraft, Heejoo Choi, Ewan S. Douglas +14

The development of spaceborne coronagraphic technology is of paramount importance to the detection of habitable exoplanets in visible light. In space, coronagraphs are able to bypa…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Giant Magellan Telescope high contrast adaptive optics phasing testbed (p-HCAT): lab tests of segment/petal phasing with a pyramid wavefront sensor and a holographic dispersed fringe sensor (HDFS) in turbulence

Alexander D. Hedglen, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +14

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) design consists of seven circular 8.4-m diameter mirror segments that are separated by large > 30 cm gaps, creating the possibility of fluctuatio…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Holographic Dispersed Fringe Sensors (HDFS): phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close, Alexander D. Hedglen +14

The next generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMT) will have large gaps between the segments either caused by the shadow of the mechanical structure of the secondary m…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

Towards on-sky adaptive optics control using reinforcement learning

J. Nousiainen, C. Rajani, M. Kasper +15

The direct imaging of potentially habitable Exoplanets is one prime science case for the next generation of high contrast imaging instruments on ground-based extremely large telesc…