The SAXO+ system is a planned second-stage Adaptive Optics (AO) upgrade to the VLT/SPHERE eXtreme Adaptive Optics (SAXO) system. This consists of adding a second adaptive optics stage using a near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor to record images of fainter exoplanets around redder stars. In this work, we compare the...
M. Langlois, C. B'echet, L. Schreiber et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 2 citations
Direct imaging of exoplanets is limited by the extreme contrast between the star and the planets, which is mitigated using a coronagraph. However, optical aberrations cause starlight leakage through the coronagraph, producing speckles that obscure the planetary signal. Achieving the required contrast levels demands wav...
Manuela Castañeda-Medina, Yann Gutierrez, J. Mazoyer et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 0 citations
SAXO+ is the second-stage adaptive optics (AO) system that will be added in cascade after SPHERE’s current extreme AO system at the VLT. This upgrade of SPHERE aims to improve coronagraphic contrast by a factor of 10 or more, close to the star, and to extend the performance to fainter, redder targets. To achieve these...
M. Tallon, C. B'echet, I. Dinis et al.· Astronomical Telescopes + In...· 5 citations
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