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astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Tolerancing the PIAA-ZWFS: a practical and robust wavefront sensor that approaches the fundamental sensitivity limit

Adam K. Taras, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Louis Desdoigts

High-contrast imaging demands extremely sensitive wavefront sensing to correct atmospheric effects and surface errors. While the limits of the sensitivity of a wavefront sensor are…

physics.optics2026

Empirical verification of principal mode orthogonality and relative phase calibration in photonic lanterns

Adam K. Taras, Barnaby R. M. Norris, Christopher Betters +5

The paper experimentally characterizes the principal modes of a photonic lantern using digital off‑axis holography, showing they are highly orthogonal and proposing ways to use thi…

physics.optics2026

Overcoming the low signal-to-noise problem for hybrid mode-selective photonic lantern-based wavefront correction using machine learning

Nathan K Long, Barnaby Norris, Daniel S Dahl +10

Hybrid mode-selective photonic lanterns transform an input complex point-spread function into several single-mode outputs, where a selected core feeds the fundamental mode to a pho…

physics.optics2026

Seidr update: photonic 'black magic' for high-contrast interferometry using kernel-nulling and photonic lanterns

Nathan K Long, Daniel S Dahl, Christopher H Betters +13

Seidr is a new interferometric beam combiner within the Asgard Suite, utilizing infrastructure common to the BIFROST instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Seidr co…