Phase retrieval and design with automatic differentiation: tutorial

A Wong, B Pope, L Desdoigts, P Tuthill, B Norris… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The principal limitation in many areas of astronomy, especially for directly imaging
exoplanets, arises from instability in the point spread function (PSF) delivered by the …

Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system review–II. Commissioning, operation and overall performance

B Neichel, F Rigaut, F Vidal… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system–GeMS, a facility instrument mounted on
the Gemini South telescope, delivers a uniform, near diffraction limited images at near …

Applied general relativity

MH Soffel, WB Han - Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer Nature …, 2019 - Springer
At present, there is a vast number of textbooks on Einstein's theory of gravity (general
relativity, GR) that are available for different kinds of readers and at different levels of …

[HTML][HTML] VLT/SPHERE robust astrometry of the HR8799 planets at milliarcsecond-level accuracy-Orbital architecture analysis with PyAstrOFit

O Wertz, O Absil, CAG González, J Milli… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. HR8799 is orbited by at least four giant planets, making it a prime target for the
recently commissioned Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch …

Astrometric performance of the Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system in crowded fields

B Neichel, JR Lu, F Rigaut, SM Ammons… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system (GeMS) is a facility instrument for the
Gemini South telescope. It delivers uniform, near-diffraction-limited image quality at near …

Techniques for high-contrast imaging in multi-star systems. I. Super-nyquist wavefront control

S Thomas, R Belikov, E Bendek - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Direct imaging of extra-solar planets is now a reality with the deployment and
commissioning of the first generation of specialized ground-based instruments (GPI …

Kernel phase and coronagraphy with automatic differentiation

BJS Pope, L Pueyo, Y Xin, PG Tuthill - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The accumulation of aberrations along the optical path in a telescope produces distortions
and speckles in the resulting images, limiting the performance of cameras at high angular …

Differentiable optics with∂ Lux: I—deep calibration of flat field and phase retrieval with automatic differentiation

L Desdoigts, BJS Pope, J Dennis… - Journal of Astronomical …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The sensitivity limits of space telescopes are imposed by uncalibrated errors in the point
spread function, photon-noise, background light, and detector sensitivity. These are typically …

The TOLIMAN space telescope

P Tuthill, E Bendek, O Guyon, A Horton… - Optical and Infrared …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The TOLIMAN space telescope is a low-cost, agile mission concept dedicated to astrometric
detection of exoplanets in the near-solar environment, and particularly targeting the Alpha …

Differentiable Optics with dLux II: Optical Design Maximising Fisher Information

L Desdoigts, B Pope, M Gully-Santiago… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The design of astronomical hardware operating at the diffraction limit requires optimization
of physical optical simulations of the instrument with respect to desired figures of merit, such …