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Characterization and on-sky testing of photonic, AWG-based astronomical spectrographs
Jeronimo Calderon-Gomez, Frantz Martinache, Nick Cvetojevic +14
Astrophotonics is a field that intends to meet the needs of next-generation instruments at a small footprint, low cost, and high stability, compared to bulk-optics-based alternativ…
HARMONI@ELT: instrument design, performance, and science capabilities
B. Neichel, J. Dunlop, S. Chittick +17
HARMONI is the integral field spectrograph for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Designed as the primary workhorse near-infrared spectrograph of the ELT, it will deliver spatial…
HARMONI at ELT: Reoptimization of the NGSS natural guide star sensors system for MCAO compatibility
Kjetil Dohlen, David Le Mignant, Anne Bonnefoi +16
HARMONI is the first-light, adaptive optics assisted, near-IR integral field spectrograph for the ELT. It covers a spectral range from below 800nm to 2400nm with resolving powers f…
Combining high-contrast imaging with high-resolution spectroscopy: Actual on-sky MIRI/MRS results compared to expectations
S. Martos, A. Bidot, A. Carlotti +1
CONTEXT: Combining high-contrast imaging with high-resolution spectroscopy offers a powerful way to detect and characterize exoplanets around nearby stars, despite challenges linke…
Behind the Mask: can HARMONI@ELT detect biosignatures in the reflected light of Proxima b?
Sophia R. Vaughan, Jayne L. Birkby, Niranjan Thatte +7
Proxima b is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of the nearest star system and a key test case in the search for extraterrestrial life. Here, we investigate the characterizati…
Exoplanets detection limits using spectral cross-correlation with spectro-imaging. An analytical model applied to the case of ELT-HARMONI
Alexis Bidot, David Mouillet, Alexis Carlotti
The combination of high-contrast imaging and medium to high spectral resolution spectroscopy offers new possibilities for the detection and characterization of exoplanets. The mole…
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…
Visible extreme adaptive optics on extremely large telescopes: Towards detecting oxygen in Proxima Centauri b and analogs
J. Fowler, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Maaike A. M. van Kooten +38
Looking to the future of exo-Earth imaging from the ground, core technology developments are required in visible extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) to enable the observation of atmosph…
Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Sophia R. Vaughan, Timothy D. Gebhard, Kimberly Bott +41
NASA is engaged in planning for a Habitable Worlds Observatory (HabWorlds), a coronagraphic space mission to detect rocky planets in habitable zones and establish their habitabilit…
On-sky demonstration at Palomar Observatory of the near-IR, high-resolution VIPA spectrometer
Alexis Carlotti, Alexis Bidot, David Mouillet +16
A near-IR high-resolution, R=80000 spectrometer has been developed at IPAG to directly characterize the atmosphere of exoplanets using adaptive optics (AO) assisted telescopes, and…
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…
Coronagraphy for DiRect Imaging of Exoplanets (CIDRE) testbed 1: concept, optical set up, and experimental results of adaptive amplitude apodization
Lucie Leboulleux, Alexis Carlotti, Stéphane Curaba +5
Oncoming exoplanet spectro-imagers like the Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS) for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will aim for a new class of exoplanets, including Earth-…
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…
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…
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…
Lessons learned from SPHERE for the astrometric strategy of the next generation of exoplanet imaging instruments
A. -L. Maire, M. Langlois, P. Delorme +14
Measuring the orbits of directly-imaged exoplanets requires precise astrometry at the milliarcsec level over long periods of time due to their wide separation to the stars ($\gtrsi…
Spectral unmixing for exoplanet direct detection in hyperspectral data
Julien Rameau, Jocelyn Chanussot, Alexis Carlotti +2
The direct detection of exoplanets with high-contrast instruments can be boosted with high spectral resolution. For integral field spectrographs yielding hyperspectral data, this m…
Direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets with the ELT/HARMONI high-contrast module
Mathis Houllé, Arthur Vigan, Alexis Carlotti +9
Combining high-contrast imaging with medium-resolution spectroscopy has been shown to significantly boost the direct detection of exoplanets. HARMONI, one of the first-light instru…
Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zone of α Centauri
K. Wagner, A. Boehle, P. Pathak +39
Giant exoplanets on wide orbits have been directly imaged around young stars. If the thermal background in the mid-infrared can be mitigated, then exoplanets with lower masses can…
A medium-resolution spectrum of the exoplanet HIP 65426 b
Simon Petrus, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Gaël Chauvin +18
Medium-resolution integral-field spectrographs (IFS) coupled with adaptive-optics such as Keck/OSIRIS, VLT/MUSE, or SINFONI are appearing as a new avenue for enhancing the detectio…
XAO-assisted coronagraphy with SHARK NIR: from simulations to laboratory tests
Gabriele Umbriaco, Elena Carolo, Daniele Vassallo +22
Several Extreme Adaptive Optics (XAO) systems dedicated to the detection and characterisation of the exoplanets are currently in operation for 8-10 meter class telescopes. Coronagr…
SPHERE+: Imaging young Jupiters down to the snowline
A. Boccaletti, G. Chauvin, D. Mouillet +130
SPHERE (Beuzit et al,. 2019) has now been in operation at the VLT for more than 5 years, demonstrating a high level of performance. SPHERE has produced outstanding results using a…
High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT): 3. first lab results with wavefront control
Mamadou N'Diaye, Johan Mazoyer, Elodie Choquet +9
HiCAT is a high-contrast imaging testbed designed to provide complete solutions in wavefront sensing, control and starlight suppression with complex aperture telescopes. The pupil…
Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging instruments with a Zernike phase-mask sensor. III. On-sky validation in VLT/SPHERE
A. Vigan, M. N'Diaye, K. Dohlen +12
Second-generation exoplanet imagers using extreme adaptive optics and coronagraphy have demonstrated their great potential for studying close circumstellar environments and for det…