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Initial modeling and testbed feasibility studies of WaveDriver: a laser guide star AO system for HWO
Dominic F. Sanchez, Benjamin L. Gerard, Peter Waswa +16
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will require greater wavefront stability than achieved by JWST, pushing conventional telescope architectures to picometer-level…
On-sky results from REDWOODS, a platform at Lick/ShaneAO for testing second stage AO technologies
Benjamin L. Gerard, Dominic F. Sanchez, Aditya R. Sengupta +11
REDWOODS is a new sub-testbed within the Shane Adaptive Optics (AO) system at Lick observatory, developed to test second stage AO wavefront sensing and control technologies, includ…
WaveDriver: a Laser Guide Star AO System for HWO
Benjamin L. Gerard, Alex Geringer-Sameth, Aditya R. Sengupta +7
Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) presents a key challenge for technology development in the coming years, requiring a more stable system than \textit{JWST}. WaveD…
Control algorithms for dual-wavefront sensor single-conjugate adaptive optics
Aditya R. Sengupta, Lisa A. Poyneer, Benjamin L. Gerard +2
High-contrast imaging systems using active control with adaptive optics (AO) are often limited by non-common path (NCP) aberrations that are seen only at the final science image. A…
WaveDriver: a Laser Guide Star AO System for HWO
Benjamin L. Gerard, Alex Geringer-Sameth, Aditya R. Sengupta +16
HWO's Tier 1 Contrast Stability Technology Gap presents a key challenge for technology development in the coming years, requiring to a >100x more stable system than JWST. WaveDrive…
Developments on LLNL's high contrast testbed and Lick/ShaneAO
Benjamin L. Gerard, Dominic F. Sanchez, Aditya R. Sengupta +15
LLNL has recently setup a High Contrast Testbed (HCT) for AO and exoplanet imaging technology development. We present the various HCT technologies currently under development, incl…
GPI 2.0: Exploring The Impact of Different Readout Modes on the Wavefront Sensor's EMCCD
Clarissa R. Do Ó, Saavidra Perera, Jérôme Maire +26
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that aims to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. GPI is being upgraded to GPI 2.0, with several subsyst…
Estimating Atmospheric Wind Speeds From Gemini Planet Imager AO Telemetry
Zhenxi Du, Saavidra Perera, Daniel Levinstein +6
The Earth's atmosphere is comprised of turbulent layers that result in speckled and blurry images from ground-based visible and infrared observations. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems…
The Focal-plane Actualized Shifted Technique Realized for a Shack Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (fastrSHWFS)
Benjamin L. Gerard, Aaron Lemmer, Bautista R. Fernandez +6
Astronomical adaptive optics (AO) is a critical approach to enable ground-based diffraction-limited imaging and high contrast science, with the potential to enable habitable exopla…
GPI 2.0: Performance Evaluation of the Wavefront Sensor's EMCCD
Clarissa R. Do Ó, Saavidra Perera, Jérôme Maire +26
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that aims to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. GPI is being upgraded to GPI 2.0, with several subsyst…
Estimating effective wind speed from Gemini Planet Imager's adaptive optics data using covariance maps
Daniel M. Levinstein, Saavidra Perera, Quinn M. Konopacky +4
The Earth's turbulent atmosphere results in speckled and blurred images of astronomical objects when observed by ground based visible and near-infrared telescopes. Adaptive optics…
GPI 2.0 : Optimizing reconstructor performance in simulations and preliminary contrast estimates
Alexander Madurowicz, Bruce Macintosh, Lisa Poyneer +12
During its move from the mountaintop of Cerro Pachon in Chile to the peak of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Gemini Planet Imager will make a pit stop to receive various upgrades, includi…
HD 165054: an astrometric calibration field for high-contrast imagers in Baade's Window
Meiji M. Nguyen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51
We present a study of the HD 165054 astrometric calibration field that has been periodically observed with the Gemini Planet Imager. HD 165054 is a bright star within Baade's Windo…
Effects of Mirror Seeing on High-Contrast Adaptive Optics Instruments
Melisa Tallis, Vanessa P. Bailey, Bruce Macintosh +6
Ground-based direct imaging surveys like the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) rely on Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to image and characterize exoplanets that are up to…
Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager
Robert J. De Rosa, Meiji M. Nguyen, Jeffrey Chilcote +49
We present a revision to the astrometric calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an instrument designed to achieve the high contrast at small angular separations necessary t…
Asymmetries in adaptive optics point spread functions
Alexander Madurowicz, Bruce Macintosh, Vanessa P. Bailey +45
An explanation for the origin of asymmetry along the preferential axis of the PSF of an AO system is developed. When phase errors from high altitude turbulence scintillate due to F…
Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager Non-Redundant Mask and spectroscopy of two close-separation binaries HR 2690 and HD 142527
Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Anthony Cheetham, Anand Sivaramakrishnan +51
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) contains a 10-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), enabling interferometric resolution in complement to its coronagraphic capabilities. The NRM operates bo…
Characterization of lemniscate atmospheric aberrations in Gemini Planet Imager data
Alexander Madurowicz, Bruce A. Macintosh, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio +5
A semi analytic framework for simulating the effects of atmospheric seeing in Adaptive Optics systems on an 8-m telescope is developed with the intention of understanding the origi…
Air, Telescope, and Instrument Temperature Effects on the Gemini Planet Imager's Image Quality
Melisa Tallis, Vanessa P. Bailey, Bruce Macintosh +5
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a near-infrared instrument that uses Adaptive Optics (AO), a coronagraph, and advanced data processing techniques to achieve very high contrast im…
The Gemini Planet Imager: Looking back over five years and forward to the future
Bruce Macintosh, Jeffrey K. Chilcote, Vanessa P. Bailey +10
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), a coronagraphic adaptive optics instrument designed for spectroscopy of extrasolar planets, had first light in 2013[13]. After five years, GPI has o…
Automated data processing architecture for the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey
Jason Wang, Marshall Perrin, Dmitry Savransky +49
The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) is a multi-year direct imaging survey of 600 stars to discover and characterize young Jovian exoplanets and their environments. We…
Status and performance of the Gemini Planet Imager adaptive optics system
Vanessa P. Bailey, Lisa A. Poyneer, Bruce A. Macintosh +14
The Gemini Planet Imager is a high-contrast near-infrared instrument specifically designed to image exoplanets and circumstellar disks over a narrow field of view. We use science d…
A laboratory demonstration of an LQG technique for correcting frozen flow turbulence in adaptive optics systems
Alexander Rudy, Lisa Poyneer, Srikar Srinath +2
We present the laboratory verification of a method for re- moving the effects of frozen-flow atmospheric turbulence using a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller, also known a…
On-sky low order non-common path correction of the GPI Calibration Unit
Markus Hartung, Bruce Macintosh, Paul Langlois +12
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) entered on-sky commissioning phase, and had its First Light at the Gemini South telescope in November 2013. Meanwhile, the fast loops for atmospheric…