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Rico Landman

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Review Sep 2026

Coronagraph design survey

NASA is embarking on an ambitious program to develop the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) flagship to perform transformational astrophysics, as well as directly image ∼25 potentially Earth-like planets and spectroscopically characterize them for signs of life. This mission was recommended by the Astro2020 decadal sur...

R. Belikov, Christopher Stark, Nicholas Siegler et al. · Journal of Astronomical Tele... · 1 citation

Review Open access Aug 2026

The final design of GMagAO-X: the wavefront sensing and control (WFS&C) architecture of GMagAO-X

The Giant Magellan Adaptive Optics eXtreme (GMagAO-X) instrument has now been selected as an official part of the Giant Magellan Telescope’s (GMT) instrument suite. The instrument will be ready at first-light of the GMT in the mid 2030s. The instrument is now progressing towards its final design with a final design rev...

S. Haffert, J. Males, L. Close et al. · Astronomical Telescopes + In... · 3 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Quantum-optimal instruments for high-contrast imaging with multi-plane light converters

Spatial Mode Demultiplexers (SPADE) are devices that split an incoming wavefront into a particular set of electric field modes. SPADEs have been shown to be quantum-optimal for many measurement problems including coronagraphy, wavefront sensing and interferometric (nulling) beam combiners. We will show how quantum opti...

S. Haffert, Yin-Zi Xin, R. Landman · Astronomical Telescopes + In... · 1 citation