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Advancing European High-Contrast Imaging R&D Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Iva Laginja, Óscar Carrión-González, Romain Laugier +31
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will enable a transformative leap in the direct imaging and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets. For this, NASA is focusing on early in…
Discovery of a point-like source and a third spiral arm in the transition disk around the Herbig Ae star MWC 758
M. Reggiani, V. Christiaens, O. Absil +20
Transition disks offer the extraordinary opportunity to look for newly born planets and investigate the early stages of planet formation. In this context we observed the Herbig A5…
The W. M. Keck Observatory infrared vortex coronagraph and a first image of HIP79124 B
Eugene Serabyn, Elsa Huby, Keith Matthews +22
An optical vortex coronagraph has been implemented within the NIRC2 camera on the Keck II telescope and used to carry out on-sky tests and observations. The development of this new…
Characterization of the inner disk around HD 141569 A from Keck/NIRC2 L-band vortex coronagraphy
Dimitri Mawet, Élodie Choquet, Olivier Absil +22
HD 141569 A is a pre-main sequence B9.5 Ve star surrounded by a prominent and complex circumstellar disk, likely still in a transition stage from protoplanetary to debris disk phas…
Discovery of a low-mass companion inside the debris ring surrounding the F5V star HD206893
Julien Milli, Pascale Hibon, Valentin Christiaens +30
Uncovering the ingredients and the architecture of planetary systems is a very active field of research that has fuelled many new theories on giant planet formation, migration, com…
Optimizing the subwavelength grating of L-band Annular Groove Phase Masks for high coronagraphic performance
Ernesto Vargas Catalan, Elsa Huby, Pontus Forsberg +9
Context. The Annular Groove Phase Mask (AGPM) is one possible implementation of the vector vortex coronagraph, where the helical phase ramp is produced by a concentric subwavelengt…
Mid-IR AGPMs for ELT applications
Brunella Carlomagno, Christian Delacroix, Olivier Absil +8
The mid-infrared region is well suited for exoplanet detection thanks to the reduced contrast between the planet and its host star with respect to the visible and near-infrared wav…
The VORTEX coronagraphic test bench
Aissa Jolivet, Pierre Piron, Elsa Huby +5
In this paper, we present the infrared coronagraphic test bench of the University of Liège named VODCA (Vortex Optical Demonstrator for Coronagraphic Applications). The goal of the…
Annular Groove Phase Mask coronagraph in diamond for mid-IR wavelengths: manufacturing assessment and performance analysis
Christian Delacroix, Pontus Forsberg, Mikael Karlsson +7
Phase-mask coronagraphs are known to provide high contrast imaging capabilities while preserving a small inner working angle, which allows searching for exoplanets or circumstellar…
A diamond AGPM coronagraph for VISIR
Christian Delacroix, Oliver Absil, Dimitri Mawet +6
In recent years, phase mask coronagraphy has become increasingly efficient in imaging the close environment of stars, enabling the search for exoplanets and circumstellar disks. Co…
Development of a subwavelength grating vortex coronagraph of topological charge 4 (SGVC4)
Christian Delacroix, Olivier Absil, Brunella Carlomagno +6
One possible solution to achieve high contrast direct imaging at a small inner working angle (IWA) is to use a vector vortex coronagraph (VVC), which provides a continuous helical…
L'-band AGPM vector vortex coronagraph's first light on LBTI/LMIRCam
D. Defrère, O. Absil, P. Hinz +20
We present the first observations obtained with the L'-band AGPM vortex coronagraph recently installed on LBTI/LMIRCam. The AGPM (Annular Groove Phase Mask) is a vector vortex coro…
The VORTEX project: first results and perspectives
Olivier Absil, Dimitri Mawet, Christian Delacroix +15
(abridged) Vortex coronagraphs are among the most promising solutions to perform high contrast imaging at small angular separations. They feature a very small inner working angle,…
Laboratory demonstration of a mid-infrared AGPM vector vortex coronagraph
Christian Delacroix, Olivier Absil, Pontus Forsberg +9
Coronagraphy is a powerful technique to achieve high contrast imaging and hence to image faint companions around bright targets. Various concepts have been used in the visible and…
The Optimal Gravitational Lens Telescope
J. Surdej, C. Delacroix, P. Coleman +8
Given an observed gravitational lens mirage produced by a foreground deflector (cf. galaxy, quasar, cluster,...), it is possible via numerical lens inversion to retrieve the real s…