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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…
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…
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…
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…
Unveiling the Atmosphere of HR 7672 B from the Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectrum Using REACH/Subaru
Yui Kasagi, Yui Kawashima, Hajime Kawahara +12
Characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs is crucial for understanding their atmospheric physics and chemistry, searching for biosignatures, and investigating t…
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…
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…
Spectral interferometric wavefront sensing: a solution for petalometry at Subaru/SCExAO
Vincent Deo, Sebastien Vievard, Manon Lallement +12
The petaling effect, induced by pupil fragmentation from the telescope spider, drastically affects the performance of high contrast instruments by inducing core splitting on the PS…
Spectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru telescope: Laboratory characterization and first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (α Leo) and `Aua (α Ori)
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
Photonic lanterns are waveguide devices enabling high throughput single mode spectroscopy and high angular resolution. We aim to present the first on-sky demonstration of a photoni…
AO3k at Subaru: First on-sky results of the facility extreme-AO
Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Hannah Blue +12
The facility adaptive optics of the Subaru Telescope AO188 recently received some long-awaited upgrades: a new 3224-actuator deformable mirror (DM) from ALPAO (hence the name chang…
The GLINT nulling interferometer: improving nulls for high-contrast imaging
Eckhart Spalding, Elizabeth Arcadi, Glen Douglass +13
GLINT is a nulling interferometer downstream of the SCExAO extreme-adaptive-optics system at the Subaru Telescope (Hawaii, USA), and is a pathfinder instrument for high-contrast im…
Exo-NINJA at Subaru: fiber-fed spectro-imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks at R4000
Mona El Morsy, Julien Lozi, Olivier Guyon +9
Exo-NINJA will realize nearIR R4000 diffraction-limited narrow-field spectro-imaging for characterization of exoplanets and circumstellar disk structures. It uniquely combine…
Visible Photonic Lantern integration, characterization and on-sky testing on Subaru/SCExAO
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
A Photonic Lantern (PL) is a novel device that efficiently converts a multi-mode fiber into several single-mode fibers. When coupled with an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system a…
Direct-imaging Discovery of a Substellar Companion Orbiting the Accelerating Variable Star, HIP 39017
Taylor L. Tobin, Thayne Currie, Yiting Li +23
We present the direct-imaging discovery of a substellar companion (a massive planet or low-mass brown dwarf) to the young, Doradus-type variable star, HIP 39017 (HD 65526). The…
Real-time experimental demonstrations of a photonic lantern wavefront sensor
Jonathan W. Lin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +12
The direct imaging of an Earth-like exoplanet will require sub-nanometric wavefront control across large light-collecting apertures, to reject host starlight and detect the faint p…
Nonlinear wavefront reconstruction from a pyramid sensor using neural networks
Alison P. Wong, Barnaby R. M. Norris, Vincent Deo +7
The pyramid wavefront sensor (PyWFS) has become increasingly popular to use in adaptive optics (AO) systems due to its high sensitivity. The main drawback of the PyWFS is that it i…
Experimental demonstration of spectral linear dark field control at NASA's high contrast imaging testbeds
Phillip K. Poon, Axel Potier, Garreth Ruane +6
Due to the low flux of exoEarths, long exposure times are required to spectrally characterize them. During these long exposures, the contrast in the dark hole will degrade as the t…
Photonic spectro-interferometry with SCExAO/FIRST at the Subaru Telescope: towards H-alpha imaging of protoplanets
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Elsa Huby +27
FIRST is a post Extreme Adaptive-Optics (ExAO) spectro-interferometer operating in the Visible (600-800 nm, R~400). Its exquisite angular resolution (a sensitivity analysis of on-s…
Single-aperture spectro-interferometry in the visible at the Subaru telescope with FIRST: First on-sky demonstration on Keho'oea (α Lyrae) and Hokulei (α Aurigae)
Sébastien Vievard, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +20
FIRST is a spectro-interferometer combining, in the visible, the techniques of aperture masking and spatial filtering thanks to single-mode fibers. This instrument aims to deliver…
Implicit electric field Conjugation: Data-driven focal plane control
S. Y. Haffert, J. R. Males, K. Ahn +11
Direct imaging of Earth-like planets is one of the main science cases for the next generation of extremely large telescopes. This is very challenging due to the star-planet contras…
AO3000 at Subaru: Combining for the first time a NIR WFS using First Light's C-RED ONE and ALPAO's 64x64 DM
Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Christophe Clergeon +7
After 16 years of on-sky operation, Subaru Telescope's facility adaptive optics AO188 is getting several major upgrades to become the extreme-AO AO3000 (3000 actuators in the pupil…
Probing Photon Statistics in Adaptive Optics Images with SCExAO/MEC
Sarah Steiger, Timothy D. Brandt, Olivier Guyon +11
We present an experimental study of photon statistics for high-contrast imaging with the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Exoplanet Camera (MEC) located behind the Suba…
Controlling petals using fringes: discontinuous wavefront sensing through sparse aperture interferometry at Subaru/SCExAO
Vincent Deo, Sébastien Vievard, Nick Cvetojevic +9
Low wind and petaling effects, caused by the discontinuous apertures of telescopes, are poorly corrected -- if at all -- by commonly used workhorse wavefront sensors (WFSs). Wavefr…