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Aug 2026
SAXO+, the second-stage adaptive optics for SPHERE: high contrast performance analysis
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.
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