Alex Rodack
University of Arizona
18 Papers
12 Citations
Alex Rodack is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Engineering & Wavefront. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results
Jared R. Males,Laird M. Close,Kelsey Miller,Lauren Schatz,David S. Doelman,Jennifer Lumbres,Frans Snik,Alex Rodack,Justin Knight,Kyle Van Gorkom,Joseph D. Long,Alex Hedglen,Maggie Kautz,Nemanja Jovanovic,Katie M. Morzinski,Olivier Guyon,Olivier Guyon,Olivier Guyon,Ewan S. Douglas,Katherine B. Follette,Julien Lozi,Chris Bohlman,Olivier Durney,Victor Gasho,Phil Hinz,Michael J. Ireland,Madison Jean,Christoph U. Keller,Matthew A. Kenworthy,Ben Mazin,Jamison Noenickx,Dan Alfred,Kevin Perez,Anna Sanchez,Corwynn Sauve,Alycia J. Weinberger,Al Conrad +36 more
- 10 Jul 2018
TL;DR: MagAO-X as mentioned in this paper is an entirely new extreme adaptive optics system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope, funded by the NSF MRI program starting in Sep 2016.
Implicit electric field conjugation: Data-driven focal plane control
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert,Jared R. Males,Kyohoon Ahn,Kyle Van Gorkom,Olivier Guyon,Laird M. Close,Joseph Long,Alex Hedglen,Lauren Schatz,Maggie Kautz,Jennifer Lumbres,Alex Rodack,Justin Knight,Kelsey Miller +13 more
- 24 Mar 2023
TL;DR: In this paper , an implicit electric field conjugation (iEFC) is proposed to remove the non-common path aberrations (NCPA) by active focal plane wavefront control using a data-driven approach.
MagAO-X: current status and plans for Phase II
Jared R. Males,Laird M. Close,Sebastiaan Y. Haffert,Joseph Long,Alex Hedglen,Logan A. Pearce,M. Weinberger,Olivier Guyon,Justin Knight,Avalon L McLeod,Maggie Kautz,Kyle Van Gorkom,Jennifer Lumbres,Lauren Schatz,Alex Rodack,Victor Gasho,Jay Kueny,Warren B. Foster +17 more
- 15 Aug 2022
TL;DR: MagAO-X as mentioned in this paper is a 2000 actuator, 3.6 kHz adaptive optics and coronagraph system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope optimized for high contrast imaging at visible wavelengths, ranging from very young, still-accreting planets detected at H-alpha to older temperate planets which will be characterized using reflected starlight.
Lab tests of segment/petal phasing with a pyramid wavefront sensor and a holographic dispersed fringe sensor in turbulence with the Giant Magellan Telescope high contrast adaptive optics phasing testbed
Alex Hedglen,Laird M. Close,Sebastiaan Y. Haffert,Jared R. Males,Maggie Kautz,Antonin Bouchez,Richard A. Demers,Fernando Quiros-Pacheco,Breann N. Sitarski,Olivier Guyon,Kyle Van Gorkom,Joseph Long,Jennifer Lumbres,Lauren Schatz,Kelsey Miller,Alex Rodack,Justin Knight +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a prototype of a GMT high contrast adaptive optics phasing testbed is presented to demonstrate segment phase sensing and simultaneous AO-control for high-contrast natural guide star science.
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Phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope with the holographic dispersed fringe sensor
Sebastiaan Y. Haffert,Laird M. Close,Alex Hedglen,Jared R. Males,Maggie Kautz,Antonin Bouchez,Richard A. Demers,Fernando Quiros-Pacheco,Breann N. Sitarski,Kyle Van Gorkom,Joseph Long,Olivier Guyon,Lauren Schatz,Kelsey Miller,Jennifer Lumbres,Alex Rodack,Justin Knight +16 more
TL;DR: The holographic dispersed fringe sensor (HDFS) as mentioned in this paper uses a single pupil-plane hologram to interfere the segments onto different spatial locations in the focal plane to sense and control these petal/piston modes.
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