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most citedThree Years of High-Contrast Imaging of the PDS 70 b and c Exoplanets at Hα with MagAO-X: Evidence of Strong Protoplanet Hα Variability and Circumplanetary Dust

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24 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Digging dark holes on-sky with the Self-Coherent Camera: Preliminary results

Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +17

Current high-contrast imaging instruments are limited by wavefront errors originating from non-common path aberrations (NCPAs) due, for example, to manufacturing errors in the opti…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Demonstration of simultaneous PIAA- coronagraphy and wavefront sensing using a single metasurface-based focal-plane optic

Dhwanil Patel, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Skyler Palatnick +23

Controlling residual wavefront aberrations downstream of an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system is a major challenge in high-contrast imaging. These aberrations produce quasi-sta…

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

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

On-sky dark hole diggin' with implicit Electric Field Conjugation on MagAO-X

S. Y. Haffert, J. Liberman, J. R. Males +17

Direct spectroscopy is very promising approach to characterizing the atmospheres of nearby rocky exoplanets. Non-common path aberrations (NCPA) are differential aberrations between…

astro-ph.EP2026

The spectral energy distribution of YSES 1 b and its circumplanetary disc

Michiel Darcis, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Tomas Stolker +18

Context. Direct imaging enables the characterisation of substellar companions on wide orbits. These objects provide a testbed for our formation theories; therefore, it is important…

astro-ph.IM2026

Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Complex Mask Coronagraph (PIAACMC) on-sky demonstration with MagAO-X

Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Haffert, Warren Foster +18

Advancing the technological development of small inner working angle (IWA) coronagraphs is essential to enabling high-contrast imaging of temperate exoplanets with future extremely…

astro-ph.EP2025

Wide Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Discovery of a Gap H Protoplanet WISPIT 2b with MagAO-X

Laird M. Close, Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Gabriel Weible +34

Excellent (<25 mas) H images of the star TYC 5709-354-1 led to the discovery of a rare H protoplanet. This star was discovered by the WISPIT survey to have a large multi-ri…

astro-ph.SR2025

Five New Sirius-Like White Dwarf + Main Sequence Star Systems with MagAO-X

Logan A. Pearce, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +20

Most known white dwarfs in multiple systems with main sequence stars have been discovered with M-type companions, because the white dwarf causes detectable UV excess and bluer colo…

astro-ph.IM2025

Making the unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensor smart II. First on-sky demonstration of extreme adaptive optics with deep learning

R. Landman, S. Y. Haffert, J. D. Long +17

Pyramid wavefront sensors (PWFSs) are the preferred choice for current and future extreme adaptive optics (XAO) systems. Almost all instruments use the PWFS in its modulated form t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 23 cited

Three Years of High-Contrast Imaging of the PDS 70 b and c Exoplanets at Hα with MagAO-X: Evidence of Strong Protoplanet Hα Variability and Circumplanetary Dust

Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Jialin Li +23

We present 3 years of high-contrast imaging of the PDS 70 b and c accreting protoplanets with the new extreme AO system MagAO-X as part of the MaxProtoPlanetS survey of H protop…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

Phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope: Lab Experiments and First On-sky Demonstration

Maggie Y. Kautz, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close +21

The large apertures of the upcoming generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes will enable unprecedented angular resolutions that scale as /D and higher sensitivi…

astro-ph.IM2024

On-sky, real-time optical gain calibration on MagAO-X using incoherent speckles

Eden A. McEwen, Jared R. Males, Olivier Guyon +15

The next generation of extreme adaptive optics (AO) must be calibrated exceptionally well to achieve the desired contrast for ground-based direct imaging exoplanet targets. Current…

astro-ph.IM2024

MagAO-X Phase II Upgrades: Implementation and First On-Sky Results of a New Post-AO 1000 Actuator Deformable Mirror

Jay K. Kueny, Kyle Van Gorkom, Maggie Kautz +13

MagAO-X is the extreme coronagraphic adaptive optics (AO) instrument for the 6.5-meter Magellan Clay telescope and is currently undergoing a comprehensive batch of upgrades. One in…

astro-ph.IM2024

More data than you want, less data than you need: machine learning approaches to starlight subtraction with MagAO-X

Joseph D. Long, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +17

High-contrast imaging data analysis depends on removing residual starlight from the host star to reveal planets and disks. Most observers do this with principal components analysis…

astro-ph.IM2024

MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades

Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +20

MagAO-X is the coronagraphic extreme adaptive optics system for the 6.5 m Magellan Clay Telescope. We report the results of commissioning the first phase of MagAO-X. Components now…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Making the unmodulated Pyramid wavefront sensor smart. Closed-loop demonstration of neural network wavefront reconstruction with MagAO-X

Rico Landman, Sebastiaan Haffert, Jared Males +12

Almost all current and future high-contrast imaging instruments will use a Pyramid wavefront sensor (PWFS) as a primary or secondary wavefront sensor. The main issue with the PWFS…

astro-ph.EP2023

MagAO-X and HST high-contrast imaging of the AS209 disk at H

Gabriele Cugno, Yifan Zhou, Thanawuth Thanathibodee +22

The detection of emission lines associated with accretion processes is a direct method for studying how and where gas giant planets form, how young planets interact with their nata…

astro-ph.SR2023

HIP 67506 C: MagAO-X Confirmation of a New Low-Mass Stellar Companion to HIP 67506 A

Logan A. Pearce, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +17

We report the confirmation of HIP 67506 C, a new stellar companion to HIP 67506 A. We previously reported a candidate signal at 2/D (240~mas) in L in MagAO/Clio imagi…

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…