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The Roman Coronagraph Community Participation Program: Using the Zernike wavefront sensor for a full characterisation of the Roman Space Telescope and the Coronagraph Instrument
Arthur Vigan, Alexis Bidot, Vincent Chambouleyron +4
The Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) will demonstrate a series of technologies and techniques to enable the direct detection of reflected-light planets with space…
Impact of segmented deformable mirrors on high-contrast testbeds for exoplanet imaging with future large space telescopes: contrast stability assessment on the HiCAT bench
Benjamin Buralli, Mamadou N'Diaye, Raphaël Pourcelot +13
We investigate the stability of a segmented deformable mirror (DM) on high-contrast testbeds and its impact on the images produced with coronagraphs. Segmented apertures are promis…
Cascade adaptive optics with a second stage based on a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet observations
M. N'Diaye, A. Vigan, B. Engler +7
Over the past decade, the high-contrast observation of disks and gas giant planets around nearby stars has been made possible on ground-based instruments using extreme adaptive opt…
High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 8. Dark zone demonstration with simultaneous closed-loop low-order wavefront sensing and control
Rémi Soummer, Emiel H. Por, Raphaël Pourcelot +27
We present recent laboratory results demonstrating high-contrast coronagraphy for the future space-based large IR/Optical/Ultraviolet telescope recommended by the Decadal Survey. T…
High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT): 11. System-level demonstration of the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph with a segmented aperture in air
Rémi Soummer, Raphaël Pourcelot, Emiel H. Por +16
We present the final results of the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph (APLC) on the High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT) testbed, under NASA's Strategic Astro…
Mid-order wavefront control for exoplanet imaging: preliminary characterization of the segmented deformable mirror and Zernike wavefront sensor on HiCAT
B. Buralli, M. N'Diaye, R. Pourcelot +13
We study a mid-order wavefront sensor (MOWFS) to address fine cophasing errors in exoplanet imaging with future large segmented aperture space telescopes. Observing Earth analogs a…
V(WF)S: Very Wide Field WaveFront Sensor for GLAO
Olivier Lai, Mark Chun, Stefan Kuiper +7
Adaptive optics is a technique mostly used on large telescopes. It turns out to be challenging for smaller telescopes (0.5~2m) due to the small isoplanatic angle, small subaperture…
Exoplanet imaging with ELTs: exploring a second-stage AO with a Zernike wavefront sensor on the ESO/GHOST testbed
Mamadou N'Diaye, Arthur Vigan, Byron Engler +6
We propose to explore a cascade extreme Adaptive optics (ExAO) approach with a second stage based on a Zernike wavefront sensor (ZWFS) for exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy. Most…
Integrated photonic-based coronagraphic systems for future space telescopes
Niyati Desai, Lorenzo König, Emiel Por +38
The detection and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets around Sun-like stars is a primary science motivation for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. However, the current best te…
First light of VLT/HiRISE: High-resolution spectroscopy of young giant exoplanets
A. Vigan, M. El Morsy, M. Lopez +46
A major endeavor of this decade is the direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution to determine the composition of their atmosphere and infer thei…
High-contrast detection of exoplanets with a kernel-nuller at the VLTI
Peter Marley Chingaipe, Frantz Martinache, Nick Cvetojevic +5
Context: The conventional approach to direct imaging has been the use of a single aperture coronagraph with wavefront correction via extreme adaptive optics. Such systems are limit…
Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging: II. Concurrent operation with stroke minimization
R. Pourcelot, E. H. Por, M. N'Diaye +16
Wavefront sensing and control (WFSC) will play a key role in improving the stability of future large segmented space telescopes while relaxing the thermo-mechanical constraints on…
APLC-Optimization: an apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph design survey toolkit
Bryony F. Nickson, Emiel H. Por, Meiji M. Nguyen +9
We present a publicly available software package developed for exploring apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph (APLC) solutions for various telescope architectures. In particular, the pa…
HARMONI at ELT: A Zernike wavefront sensor for the high-contrast module -- Testbed results with realistic observation conditions
Adrien Hours, Alexis Carlotti, David Mouillet +10
ELT-HARMONI is the first light visible and near-IR integral field spectrograph (IFS) for the ELT. It covers a large spectral range from 450nm to 2450nm with resolving powers from 3…
Redundant Apodized Pupils (RAP) for high-contrast imagers robust to segmentation-due aberrations and island effects
Lucie Leboulleux, Alexis Carlotti, Mamadou N'Diaye +6
The imaging and characterization of a larger range of exoplanets, down to young Jupiters and exo-Earths will require accessing very high contrasts at small angular separations with…
Statistical tests with multi-wavelength Kernel-phase analysis for the detection and characterization of planetary companions
Mamadou N'Diaye, David Mary, Frantz Martinache +4
Kernel phase is a method to interpret stellar point source images by considering their formation as the analytical result of an interferometric process. Using Fourier formalism, th…
Connecting SPHERE and CRIRES+ for the characterisation of young exoplanets at high spectral resolution: status update of VLT/HiRISE
A. Vigan, M. Lopez, M. El Morsy +32
New generation exoplanet imagers on large ground-based telescopes are highly optimised for the detection of young giant exoplanets in the near-infrared, but they are intrinsically…
3-beam self-calibrated Kernel nulling photonic interferometer
Nick Cvetojevic, Frantz Martinache, Peter Chingaipe +6
The use of interferometric nulling for the direct characterization of extrasolar planets is an exciting prospect, but one that faces many practical challenges when deployed on tele…
Redundant apodization for direct imaging of exoplanets 2: Application to island effects
Lucie Leboulleux, Alexis Carlotti, Mamadou N'Diaye +6
Telescope pupil fragmentation from spiders generates specific aberrations observed at various telescopes and expected on the large telescopes under construction. This so-called isl…
Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging
R. Pourcelot, M. N'Diaye, E. H. Por +19
Combining large segmented space telescopes, coronagraphy and wavefront control methods is a promising solution to produce a dark hole (DH) region in the coronagraphic image of an o…
Redundant apodization for direct imaging of exoplanets I: Robustness to primary mirror segmentation-induced errors outside the segment diffraction limit
Lucie Leboulleux, Alexis Carlotti, Mamadou N'Diaye
Direct imaging and spectroscopy of Earth-like planets and young Jupiters require contrasts up to 10^6-10^10 at angular separations of a few dozen milliarcseconds. To achieve this g…
Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging instruments with a Zernike phase-mask sensor. IV. Temporal stability of non-common path aberrations in VLT/SPHERE
A. Vigan, K. Dohlen, M. N'Diaye +12
Coronagraphic imaging of exoplanets using ground-based instruments on large telescopes is intrinsically limited by speckles induced by uncorrected aberrations. These aberrations or…
Design of the vacuum high contrast imaging testbed for CDEEP, the Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer
Erin R. Maier, Ewan S. Douglas, Daewook Kim +26
The Coronagraphic Debris Exoplanet Exploring Payload (CDEEP) is a Small-Sat mission concept for high contrast imaging of circumstellar disks. CDEEP is designed to observe disks in…
Experimental validation of active control of low-order aberrations with a Zernike sensor through a Lyot coronagraph
Raphaël Pourcelot, Mamadou N'Diaye, Emiel H. Por +11
Future large segmented space telescopes and their coronagraphic instruments are expected to provide the resolution and sensitivity to observe Earth-like planets with a 10^10 contra…