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astro-ph.IM2026

Exploring reinforcement learning to enhance focal-plane wavefront control for vortex coronagraphs

Iremsu Taskin, Jalo Nousiainen, Gilles Orban de Xivry +2

High Contrast Imaging (HCI) on ground-based telescopes suffers from phase aberrations on the observed wavefront caused by atmospheric turbulence. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are a…

astro-ph.IM2026

METIS high-contrast imaging simulations: From instrument modelling to science readiness

Gilles Orban de Xivry, Olivier Absil, Iain Hammond +9

The Mid-infrared Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) instrument, expected to see first light in early 2030, aims to detect and characterise exoplanets a…

astro-ph.IM2026

Upgrading LBTI/NOMIC with a quadruple annular groove phase mask and GeoSnap detector for imaging nearby, habitable-zone exoplanets

Kevin Wagner, Manny Montoya, Steve Ertel +32

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI)'s Nulling-Optimized Mid-Infrared Camera (NOMIC) is among the most capable thermal-infrared imaging systems available for high-co…

astro-ph.IM2026

Maximising the mid-infrared high-contrast performance of ELT/METIS despite water vapour seeing

Olivier Absil, Gilles Orban de Xivry, Prashant Pathak +7

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) will be equipped with a SCAO system delivering Strehl ratios above 90% at L band (3.5 - 4.1 um) and close to 99% at N band (8 -…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek

Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94

We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the Pictoris system. We detect Pictoris d ( Pic d) in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERI…

astro-ph.IM2026

Vector Apodizing Phase Plates for the ELT: From prototype to final optics for METIS and MICADO

J. A. van den Born, R. Landman, D. S. Doelman +12

The first generation of instruments for the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will allow for the direct imaging of exoplanets that were previously below the sensitivity or r…

astro-ph.EP2026

Two inner dust clumps in PDS 70. A third protoplanet traced by trojan material or a substructured inner disk?

O. Balsalobre-Ruza, V. Christiaens, N. Huélamo +18

The PDS 70 cavity hosts two confirmed directly imaged protoplanets and a third inner planet candidate at 13au, labeled PDS 70 d. Despite its Keplerian motion, its unusually blue sp…

astro-ph.EP2026

Information content of JWST transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanet HAT-P-12b from the optical to the mid-infrared

L. Heinke, M. Min, J. Bouwman +18

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides low- to medium-resolution spectra with unprecedented precision and broad near- to mid-infrared wavelength coverage, enabling detailed…

astro-ph.IM2026

Focal plane wavefront control with model-based reinforcement learning

Jalo Nousiainen, Iremsu Taskin, Markus Kasper +2

The direct imaging of potentially habitable exoplanets is one prime science case for high-contrast imaging instruments on extremely large telescopes. Most such exoplanets orbit clo…