3 papers
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
On-sky demonstration of reinforcement learning for adaptive optics control
Jalo Nousiainen, Vincent Chambouleyron, Benoit Neichel +7
Reinforcement learning (RL)-based algorithms have recently emerged as a promising approach for adaptive optics (AO) control. In simulations and laboratory experiments, they have de…
astro-ph.IM2024
The GPU-based High-order adaptive OpticS Testbench
Byron Engler, Markus Kasper, Serban Leveratto +12
The GPU-based High-order adaptive OpticS Testbench (GHOST) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a new 2-stage extreme adaptive optics (XAO) testbench at ESO. The GHOST is…