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6 October 2023 MagAO-X: a pathfinder for GMT to operate extreme adaptive optics at the photon noise limit
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Joseph D. Long, Alexander D. Hedglen, Maggie Kautz, Kyle Van Gorkom, Avalon L. McLeod, Warren B. Foster, Eden A. McEwen, Logan Pearce, Jialin Li, Jay Kueny, Ben Mazin, Noah Swimmer, Jeb Bailey, Sarah Steiger
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Proceedings Volume 12680, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets XI; 1268008 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677533
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States
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The upcoming Extremely Large Telescopes have the angular resolution and light collecting area that is necessary to observe biosignatures in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets. High-contrast imaging instruments will play a large role in this because observing planets directly overcomes many of the observational limitations of other exoplanet detection techniques. The influence of the bright star can be significantly reduced by spatially resolving the dim planet, allowing characterization of the planet and its atmosphere. However, the required wavefront sensing, and control (WFS&C) technologies have yet to be proven on-sky. The Magellan Adaptive Optics eXtreme (MagAO-X) instrument is a new visible to near-infrared high-contrast imaging system that operates as a testbed for the development and testing of WFS&C techniques.
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Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Joseph D. Long, Alexander D. Hedglen, Maggie Kautz, Kyle Van Gorkom, Avalon L. McLeod, Warren B. Foster, Eden A. McEwen, Logan Pearce, Jialin Li, Jay Kueny, Ben Mazin, Noah Swimmer, Jeb Bailey, and Sarah Steiger "MagAO-X: a pathfinder for GMT to operate extreme adaptive optics at the photon noise limit", Proc. SPIE 12680, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets XI, 1268008 (6 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677533
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KEYWORDS
Adaptive optics
Coronagraphy
Equipment
Planets
Imaging systems
Reflection
Exoplanetary science
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