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most citedDiscovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70

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astro-ph.IM2026

SAXO+, the second-stage adaptive optics for SPHERE: NCPA compensation and dark-hole loop with a pyramid wavefront sensor

Johan Mazoyer, Charles Goulas, Raphaël Galicher +21

The SAXO+ upgrade of the VLT/SPHERE adaptive optics system introduces a second-stage near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor to improve high-contrast imaging, making accurate calibr…

astro-ph.IM2026

Test of a 34 GHz EOM laser frequency comb at ESPRESSO

Tobias M. Schmidt, Ewelina Obrzud, François Bouchy +18

Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are a promising technology for wavelength calibration of astronomical high-resolution spectrographs requiring utmost accuracy and stability, since they…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 29 cited

NIRPS joining HARPS at ESO 3.6 m. On-sky performance and science objectives

Francois Bouchy, Rene Doyon, Francesco Pepe +131

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped with an AO system. Installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope, it…

astro-ph.IM2024

Characterizing the performance of two C-RED ONE cameras for implementation in RISTRETTO and SAXO+ projects

Muskan Shinde, Jana Anouk Baron, Nicolas Blind +4

In the near-infrared wavelength regime, atmospheric turbulence fluctuates at a scale of a few milliseconds, and its precise control requires the use of extreme adaptive optics (XAO…

astro-ph.IM2024

NIRPS first light and early science: breaking the 1 m/s RV precision barrier at infrared wavelengths

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon +111

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher or NIRPS is a precision radial velocity spectrograph developed through collaborative efforts among laboratories in Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, Fr…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design

Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud, Florence Laurent +47

BlueMUSE is a blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, panoramic integral field spectrograph under development for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). With an optimised transmission…