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most citedSpectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru telescope: Laboratory characterization and first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (α Leo) and `Aua (α Ori)

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No need to modulate: On-sky results of a Neural Network enhanced pyramid wavefront sensor and prospects for the ELTs

Rico Landman, Liam Koning, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +20

One of the main limitations of ground-based extreme adaptive optics systems (XAO) is the balance between the temporal and photon noise error. The unmodulated Pyramid Wavefront Sens…

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On-sky demonstration of self-learning predictive control with MagAO-X

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Parker T. Johnson +13

Direct imaging of exoplanets is very tricky and requires extremely well corrected wavefronts. Especially low-order order modes are detrimental to the performance of coronagraphs at…

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Sub-diffraction-limited coronagraphic imaging with nano-printed PIAACMC phase masks

Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Warren B. Foster +22

Imaging Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone of their host star is among the main science objectives of future ground-based and space-based observatories. However, the extre…

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Instrumental artifacts in photonic lantern spectroastrometry and their mitigation with PLred

Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Malena Bloom +10

Spectroastrometry is a powerful spectral-differential technique for probing angular scales below the resolution limit, but it is also well known to be susceptible to instrumental a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Closed-loop Atmospheric Dispersion Correction for High-Contrast Imaging with MagAO-X

Katie Twitchell, Sebastiaan Haffert, Jared R. Males +17

Incoming starlight is refracted as it enters Earth's atmosphere from the vacuum of space. The wavelength-dependence of atmospheric refraction causes elongation of the broadband PSF…

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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…

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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…

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Visible-Light High-Contrast Polarimetry with MagAO-X: Characterization and Initial Results

Miles Lucas, Laird Close, Jared R. Males +22

MagAO-X is a visible-light extreme adaptive optics instrument on the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay Telescope, recently upgraded to enable high-contrast polarimetric differential imaging…

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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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Time-variable Scattered Light in Herbig Disks Observed with Subaru/SCExAO

Camryn Mullin, Miles Lucas, Ruobing Dong +12

Using the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument, we present near-infrared K-band polarimetric imaging of nine Herbig stars selected from a volume-limited…