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Addressing the low-wind effect with the Lyot-based low-order wavefront sensor on SCExAO
Garima Singh, Sebastien Vievard, Julien Lozi +5
The Low-Wind Effect (LWE) is a well-known issue that affects the coronagraphic capabilities of instruments optimized to take direct images of exoplanets. This effect is prominent i…
AO3k + SCExAO: on-sky wavefront quality and demonstration of novel WFS techniques with the double XAO system
Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Vincent Deo +5
The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system, fed by its upstream 3000-actuator "woofer" (AO3k), serves both as a platform for high contrast imaging (HCI) techn…
Characterization of the stabilized nulling interferometry testbed PERSÉE
Julien Lozi
Observing exoplanets is hindered by high stellar contrast and tiny angular separation. Nulling interferometry addresses this by recombining two pupils for destructive interference…
The Photonic Lantern Nuller: from concept to laboratory and on-sky demonstrations
Yinzi Xin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Dimitri Mawet +18
This thesis work presents the conceptual design and experimental characterization of the Photonic Lantern Nuller instrument, which uses a multimode-to-single-mode demultiplexing wa…
Instrumental artifacts in photonic lantern spectroastrometry and their mitigation with PLred
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Malena Bloom +10
Spectroastrometry is a powerful spectral-differential technique for probing angular scales below the resolution limit, but it is also well known to be susceptible to instrumental a…
Updating the SCExAO/CHARIS polarimetric calibration following the Nasmyth beam-switcher upgrade
Thomas McIntosh, Manxuan Zhang, Briley L. Lewis +18
Subaru/SCExAO/CHARIS enables near-infrared integral field spectropolarimetry. Quantitative polarimetry is useful for a variety of science cases, particularly measurements related t…
Sensor fusion on MagAO-X: real time vibration control using accelerometers
Parker T. Johnson, Jared R. Males, Povilas Palunas +16
Mechanical vibrations are a significant source of residual wavefront error (WFE) in adaptive optics (AO) systems, limiting the performance of high-contrast imaging instruments. We…
FIRST-PL: Commissioning the first visible photonic lantern spectrograph for sub-diffraction-limit astronomy on Subaru/SCExAO
Sebastien Vievard, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +18
FIRST-PL (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope - Photonic Lantern) is a newly commissioned visible-light instrument on Subaru/SCExAO achieving spectroscopy below the diffraction l…
He'e-Lab: A modular testbed for astrophotonics and wavefront sensing development
Sebastien Vievard, Christopher Hamner, Nour Skaf +14
Advanced astronomical instrumentation requires accessible, reconfigurable platforms to validate novel technologies and algorithms before on-sky deployment. We present the design, a…
Japan's Possible Contributions for Coronagraph of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
Keigo Enya, Kenta Yoneta, Naoshi Murakami +20
In this paper, we describe Japan's possible contributions for coronagraph of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) based on our independent study. We are considering to contribute…
Combining spectroscopy and wavefront control at deep contrast with photonic lanterns
Mona El Morsy, Olivier Guyon, Barnaby Norris +7
HWO aims to directly image objects orbiting Sun-like stars, using a 6-m telescope capable of high-contrast imaging () and spectroscopy to search for biosignatures in plan…
On-sky Demonstration of Subdiffraction-limited Astronomical Measurement Using a Photonic Lantern
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Sébastien Vievard +18
Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescop…
PIRATES -- a machine-learning framework for polarized, interferometric image reconstruction
Lucinda Lilley, Barnaby Norris, Peter Tuthill +13
Optical interferometric image reconstruction is a challenging, ill-posed optimization problem which usually relies on heavy regularization for convergence. Conventional algorithms…
Experimental and on-sky demonstration of spectrally dispersed wavefront sensing using a photonic lantern
Jonathan Lin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Yinzi Xin +12
Adaptive optics systems are critical in any application where highly resolved imaging or beam control must be performed through a dynamic medium. Such applications include astronom…
Spectral characterization of a 3-port photonic lantern for application to spectroastrometry
Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Lin +10
Spectroastrometry, which measures wavelength-dependent shifts in the center of light, is well-suited for studying objects whose morphology changes with wavelength at very high angu…
Visible-Light High-Contrast Imaging and Polarimetry with SCExAO/VAMPIRES
Miles Lucas, Barnaby Norris, Olivier Guyon +17
We present significant upgrades to the VAMPIRES instrument, a visible-light (600 nm to 800 nm) high-contrast imaging polarimeter integrated within SCExAO on the Subaru telescope. K…
Spectral interferometric wavefront sensing: a solution for petalometry at Subaru/SCExAO
Vincent Deo, Sebastien Vievard, Manon Lallement +12
The petaling effect, induced by pupil fragmentation from the telescope spider, drastically affects the performance of high contrast instruments by inducing core splitting on the PS…
Photonic chip for visible interferometry: laboratory characterization and comparison with the theoretical model
Manon Lallement, Sylvestre Lacour, Elsa Huby +15
Integrated optics are used to achieve astronomical interferometry inside robust and compact materials, improving the instruments stability and sensitivity. In order to perform diff…
Photonic beam-combiner for visible interferometry with SCExAO/FIRST: laboratory characterization and design optimization
Manon Lallement, Elsa Huby, Sylvestre Lacour +15
Integrated optics are used to achieve astronomical interferometry inside robust and compact materials, improving the instrument's stability and sensitivity. In order to perform dif…
Spectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru telescope: Laboratory characterization and first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (α Leo) and `Aua (α Ori)
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
Photonic lanterns are waveguide devices enabling high throughput single mode spectroscopy and high angular resolution. We aim to present the first on-sky demonstration of a photoni…
AO3k at Subaru: First on-sky results of the facility extreme-AO
Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Hannah Blue +12
The facility adaptive optics of the Subaru Telescope AO188 recently received some long-awaited upgrades: a new 3224-actuator deformable mirror (DM) from ALPAO (hence the name chang…
The GLINT nulling interferometer: improving nulls for high-contrast imaging
Eckhart Spalding, Elizabeth Arcadi, Glen Douglass +13
GLINT is a nulling interferometer downstream of the SCExAO extreme-adaptive-optics system at the Subaru Telescope (Hawaii, USA), and is a pathfinder instrument for high-contrast im…
Exo-NINJA at Subaru: fiber-fed spectro-imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks at R4000
Mona El Morsy, Julien Lozi, Olivier Guyon +9
Exo-NINJA will realize nearIR R4000 diffraction-limited narrow-field spectro-imaging for characterization of exoplanets and circumstellar disk structures. It uniquely combine…
Visible Photonic Lantern integration, characterization and on-sky testing on Subaru/SCExAO
Sébastien Vievard, Manon Lallement, Sergio Leon-Saval +23
A Photonic Lantern (PL) is a novel device that efficiently converts a multi-mode fiber into several single-mode fibers. When coupled with an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system a…