MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades

Jared R. Males; Laird M. Close; Sebastiaan Y. Haffert; Maggie Y. Kautz; Jay Kueny; Joseph D. Long; Eden McEwen; Noah Swimmer; John I. Bailey; Warren Foster; Benjamin A. Mazin; Logan Pearce; Joshua Liberman; Katie Twitchell; Alycia J. Weinberger; Olivier Guyon; Alexander D. Hedglen; Avalon McLeod; Roz Roberts; Kyle Van Gorkom; Jialin Li; Isabella Doty; Victor Gasho

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MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades

Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Maggie Y. Kautz, Jay Kueny, Joseph D. Long, Eden McEwen, Noah Swimmer, John I. Bailey, Warren Foster, Benjamin A. Mazin, Logan Pearce, Joshua Liberman, Katie Twitchell, Alycia J. Weinberger, Olivier Guyon, Alexander D. Hedglen, Avalon McLeod, Roz Roberts, Kyle Van GorkomJialin Li, Isabella Doty, Victor Gasho

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MagAO-X is the coronagraphic extreme adaptive optics system for the 6.5 m Magellan Clay Telescope. We report the results of commissioning the first phase of MagAO-X. Components now available for routine observations include: the > 2 kHz high-order control loop consisting of a 97 actuator woofer deformable mirror (DM), a 2040 actuator tweeter DM, and a modulated pyramid wavefront sensor (WFS); classical Lyot coronagraphs with integrated low-order (LO) WFS and control using a third 97-actuator non-common path correcting (NCPC) DM; broad band imaging in g, r, i, and z filters with two EMCCDs; simultaneous differential imaging in Hα; and integral field spectroscopy with the VIS-X module. Early science results include the discovery of an Hα jet, images of accreting protoplanets at Hα, images of young extrasolar giant planets in the optical, discovery of new white dwarf companions, resolved images of evolved stars, and high-contrast images of circumstellar disks in scattered light in g-band (500 nm). We have commenced an upgrade program, called “Phase II”, to enable high-contrast observations at the smallest inner working angles possible. These upgrades include a new 952 actuator NCPC DM to enable coronagraphic wavefront control; phase induced amplitude apodization coronagraphs; new fast cameras for LOWFS and Lyot-LOWFS; and real-time computer upgrades. We will report the status of these upgrades and results of first on-sky testing in March-May 2024.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Adaptive Optics Systems IX
Editors	Kathryn J. Jackson, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510675179
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019464
State	Published - 2024
Event	Adaptive Optics Systems IX 2024 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: Jun 16 2024 → Jun 22 2024

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	13097
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Adaptive Optics Systems IX 2024
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	6/16/24 → 6/22/24

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adaptive optics

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Males, J. R., Close, L. M., Haffert, S. Y., Kautz, M. Y., Kueny, J., Long, J. D., McEwen, E., Swimmer, N., Bailey, J. I., Foster, W., Mazin, B. A., Pearce, L., Liberman, J., Twitchell, K., Weinberger, A. J., Guyon, O., Hedglen, A. D., McLeod, A., Roberts, R., ... Gasho, V. (2024). MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades. In K. J. Jackson, D. Schmidt, & E. Vernet (Eds.), Adaptive Optics Systems IX Article 1309709 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13097). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019464

MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades. / Males, Jared R.; Close, Laird M.; Haffert, Sebastiaan Y. et al.
Adaptive Optics Systems IX. ed. / Kathryn J. Jackson; Dirk Schmidt; Elise Vernet. SPIE, 2024. 1309709 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13097).

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Males, JR, Close, LM, Haffert, SY, Kautz, MY, Kueny, J, Long, JD, McEwen, E, Swimmer, N, Bailey, JI, Foster, W, Mazin, BA, Pearce, L, Liberman, J, Twitchell, K, Weinberger, AJ, Guyon, O, Hedglen, AD, McLeod, A, Roberts, R, Van Gorkom, K, Li, J, Doty, I & Gasho, V 2024, MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades. in KJ Jackson, D Schmidt & E Vernet (eds), Adaptive Optics Systems IX., 1309709, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 13097, SPIE, Adaptive Optics Systems IX 2024, Yokohama, Japan, 6/16/24. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019464

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