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CATKit2-HCI: a collaborative framework for advancing high-contrast coronagraph testbeds
Rémi Soummer, Iva Laginja, Emiel H. Por +19
High-contrast exoplanet imaging requires dedicated laboratory testbeds for the development and validation of coronagraph architectures, wavefront sensing and control methods, calib…
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…
Technical description and performance of the phase II version of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
Nemanja Jovanovic, Daniel Echeverri, Jacques-Robert Delorme +46
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a series of upgrades for the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) system and the NIRSPEC spectrograph to enable diffraction limited, high…
SCExAO/CHARIS Spectroscopic Characterization of Cloudy L/T Transition Companion Brown Dwarf HIP 93398 B
Briley Lewis, Yiting Li, Aidan Gibbs +10
Brown dwarfs with measured dynamical masses and spectra from direct imaging are benchmarks that anchor substellar atmosphere cooling and evolution models. We present Subaru SCExAO/…
Real-time control and data standardization on various telescopes and benches
Nour Skaf, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Aaron Hunter +19
Real-time control (RTC) is pivotal for any Adaptive Optics (AO) system, including high-contrast imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar environments. It is the brain of the AO syst…
Implementation and Characterization of the Vector Vortex Coronagraph on the SEAL Testbed
Ashai Moreno, Vincent Chambouleyron, Rebecca M. Jensen-Clem +3
The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL) testbed is an optical bench meant to design and develop new wavefront control techniques for high-contrast imaging for segmented telescopes. Th…
The Keck-HGCA Pilot Survey II: Direct Imaging Discovery of HD 63754 B, a ~20 au Massive Companion Near the Hydrogen Burning Limit
Yiting Li, Timothy D. Brandt, Kyle Franson +15
We present the joint astrometric and direct imaging discovery, mass measurement, and orbital analysis of HD 63754 B (HIP 38216 B), a companion near the stellar-substellar boundary…
Subaru/CHARIS High-Resolution Mode Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Companion HD 33632 Ab
Aidan Gibbs, Briley Lewis, Michael Fitzgerald +6
Brown dwarfs (BD) are model degenerate in age and mass. High-contrast imaging and spectroscopy of BD companions to host stars where the mass and age can be independently constraine…
Towards understanding interactions between the AO system and segment co-phasing with the vector-Zernike wavefront sensor on Keck
Maïssa Salama, Charlotte Guthery, Vincent Chambouleyron +14
We extend our previous demonstration of the first on-sky primary mirror segment closed-loop control on Keck using a vector-Zernike wavefront sensor (vZWFS), which improved the Stre…
The future looks dark: improving high contrast imaging with hyper-parameter optimization for data-driven predictive wavefront control
J. Fowler, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Maaike A. M. van Kooten +2
The direct imaging and characterization of exoplanets requires extreme adaptive optics (XAO), achieving exquisite wavefront correction (upwards of 90 Strehl) over a narrow fiel…
Laboratory demonstration of an all-fiber-based focal plane nulling interferometer
Jordan Diaz, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Daren Dillon +6
Starlight suppression techniques for High-Contrast Imaging (HCI) are crucial to achieving the demanding contrast ratios and inner working angles required for detecting and characte…
Photonic lantern wavefront reconstruction in a multi-wavefront sensor single-conjugate adaptive optics system
Aditya R. Sengupta, Jordan Diaz, Benjamin L. Gerard +6
Exoplanet direct imaging using adaptive optics (AO) is often limited by non-common path aberrations (NCPAs) and aberrations that are invisible to traditional pupil-plane wavefront…
Keck Primary Mirror Closed-Loop Segment Control using a Vector-Zernike Wavefront Sensor
Maissa Salama, Charlotte Guthery, Vincent Chambouleyron +17
We present the first on-sky segmented primary mirror closed-loop piston control using a Zernike wavefront sensor (ZWFS) installed on the Keck II telescope. Segment co-phasing error…
SHIMM as an atmospheric profiler on the Nickel Telescope
Ollie Jackson, Maaike A. M. van Kooten, Saavidra Perera +2
Optimal atmospheric conditions are beneficial for detecting exoplanets via high contrast imaging (HCI), as speckles from adaptive optics' (AO's) residuals can make it difficult to…
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES): driving science cases and expected outcomes
Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, Deno Stelter +34
The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) is a m, high-contrast integral field spectrograph (IFS) currently being built for Keck Observa…
Closed-Loop Until Further Notice: Comparing Predictive Control Methods in Closed-Loop
J. Fowler, M. A. M. van Kooten, R. Jensen-Clem
For future extremely large telescopes, error in extreme adaptive optics systems at small angular separations will be highly impacted by the lag time of the correction, which is typ…
Using the Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm to reconstruct non-modulated pyramid wavefront sensor measurements
Vincent Chambouleyron, Aditya Sengupta, Maïssa Salama +9
Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique to improve the resolution of ground-based telescopes by correcting, in real-time, optical aberrations due to atmospheric turbulence and the tele…
A Wolf 359 in sheep's clothing: Hunting for substellar companions in the fifth-closest system using combined high-contrast imaging and radial velocity analysis
Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Philip M. Hinz +16
Wolf 359 (CN Leo, GJ 406, Gaia DR3 3864972938605115520) is a low-mass star in the fifth-closest neighboring system (2.41 pc). Because of its relative youth and proximity, Wolf 359…
Deformable mirror-based pupil chopping for exoplanet imaging and adaptive optics
Javier Perez Soto, Cesar Laguna, Benjamin L. Gerard +3
Due to turbulence in the atmosphere images taken from ground-based telescopes become distorted. With adaptive optics (AO) images can be given greater clarity allowing for better ob…
First laboratory demonstration of real-time multi-wavefront sensor single conjugate adaptive optics
Benjamin L. Gerard, Daren Dillon, Sylvain Cetre +1
Exoplanet imaging has thus far enabled studies of wide-orbit (10 AU) giant planet (2 Jupiter masses) formation and giant planet atmospheres, with future 30 meter-class Extrem…
High Speed Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing with an Optical Chopper
Benjamin L. Gerard, Daren Dillon, Sylvain Cetre +1
Focal plane wavefront sensing and control is a critical approach to reducing non-common path errors between the a conventional astronomical adaptive optics (AO) wavefront sensor (W…
Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: A Giant Planet Imaged Inside the Debris Disk of the Young Star AF Lep
Kyle Franson, Brendan P. Bowler, Yifan Zhou +13
We present the direct imaging discovery of a giant planet orbiting the young star AF Lep, a 1.2 member of the 24 3 Myr Pic moving group. AF Lep was observed a…
Surveying Nearby Brown Dwarfs with HGCA: Direct Imaging Discovery of a Faint, High-Mass Brown Dwarf Orbiting HD 176535 A
Yiting Li, Timothy D. Brandt, G. Mirek Brandt +16
Brown dwarfs with well-measured masses, ages and luminosities provide direct benchmark tests of substellar formation and evolutionary models. We report the first results from a dir…
Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: Discovery and Characterization of HIP 21152 B, the First T-Dwarf Companion in the Hyades
Kyle Franson, Brendan P. Bowler, Mariangela Bonavita +28
Benchmark brown dwarf companions with well-determined ages and model-independent masses are powerful tools to test substellar evolutionary models and probe the formation of giant p…