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February 2 - 6, 2026 • Caltech, Pasadena, CA

Poster PDFs

Poster Session 1


A J Eldorado Riggs High-fidelity wavefront correction simulation tools for the Roman Coronagraph
Alexander Venner Old Planets, New Tricks: Making Archival Data Work for Direct Imaging of Mature Giant Exoplanets
Alexandra Greenbaum Roman Coronagraph Ground Loop Operations
Alexis Lau CAPyBARA: a fast, robust Roman CGI-like simulator for exploring WFSC, observing, and post-processing strategies
Andre Fogal Earth to Spock: Hipparcos-Gaia Astrometry Reveals a New Planetary Candidate ‘Vulcan’ orbiting 40 Eridani A
Andre Fogal Machine Learning Wavefront Reconstruction: On-sky Results with SPIDERS
Aneesh Baburaj First Spectroscopic Observations of Cold Planetary-mass Companion GJ 504 b with JWST/NIRSpec reveal high metal enrichment
Angelle Tanner The Starchive – A Growing Resource for Direct Imaging Surveys
Aniket Sanghi Mapping the Late Stages of Giant Planet Evolution with JWST Imaging of Benchmark Cold Planets Eps Ind Ab and Eps Eri b
Anne-Marie Lagrange Resolving Outer Giants with Gaia Astrometry, High contrast Imaging, and Radial Velocities
Anthony Boccaletti Mid-infrared images of iconic directly imaged systems with JWST/MIRI.
Arin Avsar Studying Massive Collisions in Exo-Kuiper Belts with Multi-Epoch Coronagraphy
Ashley Messier NIRCam Bar Coronagraphy Reveals Enriched CO2 and Possible Planet-Like Formation for a Sample of Super Jupiters
Axel Potier Coherent differential imaging on VLT/SPHERE : first results and beyond.
Brendan Bowler Accretion Light Echoes and Halpha Variability of a Protoplanet Candidate
Caldon Whyte Prospects for Detecting and Characterizing the Atmospheres of White Dwarf Exoplanets
Carles Cantero New substellar candidates identified with deep learning in the large-scale SHINE direct imaging survey
Caroline Morley Which Sonora Model Should I Use?
Charles Beichman Will Gaia DR4 Reveal New Targets for Roman/CGI
Chen Xie Water ice in the debris disk around HD 181327
Chia-Lin Ko Improving High-Contrast Imaging Through Temporally Informed Post-Processing
Chris Carilli A New Method for Aperture Masking Interferometric Imaging: Demonstration with the JWST
Christopher Mann Pushing Coherent Differential Imaging to its Limits with SPIDERS
Dan Sirbu Extending the Capabilities of the Roman Coronagraph: Community Participation Program Hardware Working Development of Enhanced Modes and High Order Wavefront Sensing Simulations
Danielle Bovie Characterizing Massive Planets and Brown Dwarfs with High-Contrast Imaging and Precision Astrometry
Dori Blakely The Disk Connection: Detecting Planets Around Disk-Hosting Stars with Hipparcos and Gaia Astrometry
Dorian Demars New multi-epoch H-alpha monitoring observations of PDS 70 b and c
Eduardo Bendek Following Up Alpha Cen Ab Planet Candidate using the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph
Elodie Choquet ESCAPE: investigating active observing and post-processing methods for Roman and HWO
Gabriele Cugno Direct Measurement of Extinction in a Planet-Hosting Gap
Geoffrey Bryden JWST/NIRCam imaging of the HR 8799 planetary system
Iva Laginja Enhanced Wavefront Sensing for Roman CGI: Single-Actuator Probes with Flight-Like Validation
Jay K Kueny A Novel Autodiff Pipeline for Freeform Forward Modeling of Circumstellar Disks
Jayke Samson Nguyen Quantifying The Information Content In High Contrast Imaging Data
Jean Pablo Costa Construction of a Data Processing Algorithm for Light Curves in Exoplanet Detection via the Transit Method
Jie Li Using Astrometry and RV to Identify New Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs Amenable to High-Contrast Imaging From the Ground and Space
Jingwen Zhang CorgiSim: A Community Tool for Roman Coronagraph Simulations
John Debes Cold Planets Around White Dwarfs with JWST
Jonas Wehrung-Montpezat Optimizing the detection of exoplanets with JWST/MIRI: comparing direct imaging and coronagraphy
Joseph Long Development of a hybrid physical optics and deep learning model for speckle evolution
Julien H Girard Ground/space complementarity in the direct imaging of exoplanetary systems, a review
Karl Roald Stapelfeldt Debris Disk Target Considerations for the Roman Coronagraph Mission
Katie Crotts The First Saturn Analog: Exploration of the TWA 7 Planet–Disk System with JWST NIRCam
Kellen Dunn Lawson Wholesale High Contrast Imaging With the Roman Wide Field Instrument
Kenta Yoneta Development of High-Contrast Imaging Technique Based on the Speckle Area Nulling Method
Kenta Yoneta Development of High-Contrast Imaging Techniques for Direct Observation of Exoplanets in Binary-Star Systems
Kimberly Ward-Duong JWST/MIRI Coronagraphy of the Benchmark Brown Dwarf Companion GJ 758 B
Lillian Yushu Jiang A Deep HST/WFC3/H-alpha Imaging Survey to Probe the Demographics of Accreting Planets at Wide Separations
Lisa Altinier High-Order Modes Dithering for the Roman HLC: Results with the CAPyBARA Simulator
Louis Desdoigts Restoring the lost performance of JWST’s Aperture Masking Interferometer with AMIGO
Lukas Delaye Simulated parametric study of coherent differential imaging for exoplanet detection with SPHERE(+).
Macarena Constanza Vega Pallauta CorGI-REx: Reference Star Vetting for the Roman Coronagraph Instrument with High-Contrast Imaging from VLT/SPHERE
Margot Courtoux Detection and characterisation of protoplanets with JWST/MIRI
Mariam Sabalbal Observing Conditions Matter! Enhanced SHINE F150 detection limits with RSM
Marie Ygouf Toward Science-Ready Data: Development and Validation of the Roman Coronagraph Data Reduction Pipeline
Marie Ygouf Model-Based Phase Retrieval for JWST Coronagraphy and High-Contrast Imaging
Mary Anne Limbach Direct Detection of White Dwarf Exoplanets in the JWST Era
Mathilde Malin Mid-infrared spectroscopy of cold directly imaged giant planets with JWST/MIRI.
Mathilde Malin Medium-resolution spectroscopy reveals a carbon-rich circumplanetary disk around the young accreting exoplanet Delorme 1 AB b
Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer Preparing for Launch: The Roman Coronagraph Instrument Community Participation Program
Michiel Darcis Wavefront Sensing in Colour Using the Gradient Descent Reconstructor and Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs)
Natalia Sanchez-Soria Coronagraphic postprocessing using a forward-modeling approach with bootstrapping
Nicholas Thomas Schragal CorGI-REx Reference Star Vetting for the Roman Coronagraph – Northern Hemisphere Interferometric Observations with the CHARA Array
Nicolas Godoy The JWST/MIRI view of HR 2562 b and κ And b
Rachel Bowens-Rubin NIRCam yells at cloud: How non-chronographic MIRI imaging can directly detect exoplanets as cold as Saturn and Jupiter that other modes might miss
Raphaël Pourcelot JWST telemetry combined with active coronagraphy: inferring raw contrast predictions for exoplanet imaging with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Rohan Kane JWST NIRCam Detections of Sub-Jupiter Companion Candidates and a Multi-Component Debris Disk
Sarah Steiger Incorporating Wavefront Error, Wavefront Sensing and Control, and Sensitivities into Exposure Time Calculations with the Error Budget Software (EBS)
Sophie Noiret Simulating Roman Coronagraph Observations with CorgiSim and CPGS
Tiffany Meshkat Searching for planets around Altair with JWST
Toshiyuki Mizuki Polarimetry of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument
Vasuda Trehan High-Dimensional Artificial Intelligence Modeling for Predicting Exoplanetary Atmospheric Absorption Spectra
Vito Squicciarini The COBREX archival survey: a direct imaging view of planet formation
William Ceva High contrast imaging of substellar companions that correspond to long term trends in over 25 years of RV data
William O Balmer Colder, closer: Pushing the limits of JWST Coronagraphy
Yi Yang Interpretable Deep Transfer Learning for Protoplanetary Disk Classification in Polarimetric Imaging
Yifan Zhou Time-Resolved Coronagraphic Observations with JWST: Accessing the Rotational and Atmospheric Dynamics of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Yihan Li A Search for Wide-orbit Planets Around M-dwarfs using Deep MIRI 15-micron Images
Yu-Chia Lin Characterizing the TW Hya System with JWST/NIRCam: Fine-Scale Disk Architecture and Deep Companion Limits

 

Poster Session 2


A J Eldorado Riggs Black Silicon Apodizer Results Relevant to the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Adam Johnson STARLITE Monochromatic Simulations: Coronagraphic Performance, DM Control, and Contrast Estimates
Adam Johnson Recovering Full-Field Spectra with SPIDERS’ IFTS: First On-Sky Results at Subaru
Aditya Rohan Sengupta On-sky demonstration of second-stage wavefront control with a photonic lantern
Alexis Carlotti High-contrast NIR spectro-imaging capability with ELT/HARMONI
Andrea Bernardi Improved orbital solutions for wide directly imaged companions
Andy Skemer SCALES: Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
Anna Rahim Exoplanet observations with a cascade adaptive optics with a second stage based on a Zernike wavefront sensor: in-lab validation on the ESO/GHOST testbed in broadband light
Anne Elisabeth Peck Characterization of the Host Binary of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 143811 AB b
Anuroop Dasgupta Discovery of a Deeply Embedded Substellar Companion in V960 Mon: A Potential Case of Gravitational Instability
Anusha Janardan Pai Asnodkar Tricouplers for nulling with photonic integrated circuits
Ashley Baker Understanding differential limb coupling in diffraction-limited spectrographs on large telescopes
Beck Dacus The Science Potential of Characterizing Gas Giant Planets with HWO
Ben Andrew Sappey A deep look with Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC): Isotopologue measurements for HR 7672 B
Benjamin Calvin A Conceptual Exploration of High-Contrast Aperture Masking Interferometry
Bhavesh Rajpoot Measuring Worlds by Their Lines: Unlocking High-Dispersion Coronagraphy in H-band at VLT with HiRISE
Bryony Francesca Nickson Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Caleb Harada SPORES-HWO II. Companion mass limits for future exo-earth survey target stars from >30 years of precision radial velcoty monitoring
Charles Sallard First laboratory demonstration of iEFC for high-contrast imaging at small angular separation on ELT scales
Chen Xie Protoplanets Revealed by Spiral Motion from SAFFRON: Candidate Drivers of Spirals and Gaps in SAO 206462 and V1247 Ori Disks
Chih-Chun "Dino" Hsu Bifurcated Rotation of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarf Companions
Chloe Ann Lawlor From Dust to Giants: What WISPIT 2 Reveals About Planet Formation
Christian Marois The Gemini Planet Imager CAL2 upgrade, toward reflected light exoplanet imaging with high-speed focal plane wavefront sensing
Cicero Lu Spatially-Resolved CO Gas and Dust Emission in the disk of AB Aurigae with Gemini/GNIRS HR-IFU and Insights from Commissioning data
Clarissa R. Do O The Orbital Evolution of Multiple Wide Super-Jupiters: How Disk Migration and Dispersal Shape the Stability of The PDS 70 System
claude Jean aime Comparing Starshade and Sunshade Coronagraphs
Connor James Vancil Assessing Exoplanet Habitability with HWO Polarimetry
Corey Spohn Simulating Images for a Complete HWO Survey with coronagraphoto
Dan Sirbu AstroPIC: Advancing a near-infrared photonic coronagraph toward the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Daniel Echeverri Overview and laboratory validation of the front-end instrument (FEI) subsystem of the Keck/HISPEC instrument
Dhwanil Patel Hybrid PIAA-coronagraphy and -wavefront sensing using a single optical metasurface focal plane mask
Dominic Francisco Sanchez REDWOODS: a Platform at Lick/ShaneAO for Testing Second Stage AO Technologies
Dominic Francisco Sanchez Ongoing Developments for WaveDriver, a Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System for HWO
Dorian Demars Monitoring accretion lines on Super-Jupiters with phase-resolved echelle spectroscopy: first results of the ENTROPY program
Eden McEwen Optical gain three ways: comparing on-sky, real-time wavefront sensor gain calibrations with MagAO-X
Eleonora Alei Multi-Bandpass Exoplanet Atmosphere Reconnaissance (MPEAR): Optimizing HWO's First-Visit Photometric Strategy
Eleonora Alei pyEDITH: Exposure Time Calculator for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph Instrument
Emiel Por Hybrid Photonic Coronagraphy: Integration and Testing on the SEAL Testbed
Eric Nielsen Exoplanet Demographics from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planets
Erica Dykes SCxAO/CHARIS high contrast integral field spectropolarimetry of protoplanetary disks around (sub)solar-mass stars
Guillaume Huber Latest characterization results of 1kx1k LmAPDs for ultra-low noise NIR astronomy
Genevieve Markees Performance Simulations of Photonic-Enabled ExoPlanet Spectroscopic Sensor (PEEPSS) for HWO
Gilles Orban de Xivry Breaking the symmetry: Asymmetric Lyot stops for METIS focal plane wavefront sensing
Iremsu Taskin Exploring reinforcement learning to enhance METIS focal plane wavefront correction
Jennifer Patience MAPS – the MMT Adaptive optics exo-Planet characterization System
Jialin Li Discovery of H Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X
John Krist Developing Optical Models of Coronagraphic Testbeds at JPL
John Trauger A demonstration of low order wavefront sensing and control for HWO exoplanet imaging
Jonas G Kuhn The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the 4-m DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument: Status Update
Jordan Israel Diaz Relaxing stability requirements on HWO by suppressing sensitivity to specific modes
Jorge Llop-Sayson Advancing Vector Vortex Coronagraph Technology for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Joshua Liberman Lab Demonstration of the Spatially-Clipped Self-Coherent Camera
Jules Fowler When PIGSS fly: a Polarimetric InvestiGation of the Self-luminous Substellar companions AF Lep b and HIP 21152 B
Julianne Cronin Atmospheric Characterization of Benchmark Brown Dwarf HIP21152B
Jun Hashimoto Toward understanding the emission mechanisms of accreting planets
Jun Nishikawa Two-stage coronagraph concept for high contrast imaging
Justin Latour Imaging and characterising forming exoplanets in their birth environment
Kaitlyn Hessel Resolving Tensions Around a Rare Multi-Planet System (HR 8799): An Investigation of Planet Masses and the Search for a Hidden 5th Planet
Katei Twitchell Closed-loop Atmospheric Dispersion Correction for High Contrast Imaging with MagAO-X
Katelyn Horstman Searching for exo-satellites and brown dwarf binaries using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC)
Katherine Follette Protoplanet and PMC Population Puzzles
Kevin Ludwick Accounting for clock-induced charge production in the electron-multiplying charge-coupled device gain register
Liurong Lin Active focal-plane phase coronagraphy with a pixelated device: Combining simulations and digital holographic microscopy metrology
Logan Pearce Preparing for reflected light exoplanet detection campaigns with ground based platforms
Lorenzo Koenig Applications of scalar metasurface phase masks for high-contrast imaging
Lucie Leboulleux The Redundant Apodized Pupil coronagraph against the low-wind effect: developments and experimental validation on SCExAO/Subaru
Maggie Kautz High-Contrast Imaging at First-Light of the GMT: Using the High Contrast Adaptive Optics Phasing Testbed (HCAT) to develop key adaptive optics components for GMagAO-X
Mamadou Mamadou The ANDES high-resolution spectrograph of the ELT: overview of the high-contrast capabilities for exoplanet observations
Marah Brinjikji The Companions to B and A Stars Snapshot (C-BASS) Survey: Discovery of a New Brown Dwarf Companion around an A-Star
Maria Vincent High Order Keck Adaptive Optics: Results from lab integration and testing of the High Order Deformable Mirror
Martin Charles Noecker Rock Steady: the Habitable Worlds Observatory and its Coronagraph Instrument
Masayuki Kuzuhara Updated Report on High-Contrast Imaging Discoveries and Spectroscopic Characterizations of Brown Dwarfs with the Subaru Telescope
Mathis Houllé Mid-infrared interferometry of young giant exoplanets at the VLTI
Mathieu Motte On-sky results with OZIRIIS: The 2nd stage AO of PAPYRUS using a vector Zernike Wavefront Sensor
Matthew Kenworthy Searching for exomoons around Beta Pictoris b and YSES 1b
Matthijs Mars Non-linear low-order wavefront control with a physics-based digital twin: On-sky results from MagAO-X
Michael Arena Progress Towards an Upgraded Detector Array for the MKID Exoplanet Camera (MEC')
Michael McElwain Habitable World Discovery and Characterization: Coronagraph Concept of Operations and Data Post-Processing
Michael R. Meyer A New Mid-Infrared Hammer for High Contrast Nails: MIRAC-5+AGPM with MMT-MAPS
Michiel Darcis YSES 1 b observations with MagAO-X and updated modeling including circumplanetary disk extinction
Miles Lucas Initial Characterization of the Polarimetric Performance of MagAO-X
Mona El Morsy Starlight Suppression with Photonic Integrated Circuits: Laboratory Characterization and Future Applications for Subaru/GLINT and HWO
Naoshi Murakami Toward Broadband High-Contrast Imaging: Coronagraphic Phase Masks and an Auxiliary Optical Module for Wavefront Control
Nemanja Jovanovic Overview and status of Keck/HISPEC, the diffraction-limited y-K band spectrograph for exoplanet characterization
Nicole Wolff GPI 2.0 End-to-end Simulations
Nikki Anita Zivkov MEC Prime: Upgrading MKID Exoplanet Camera for the Next Generation of High Contrast Exoplanet Imaging
Niyati Desai Scalar Vortex Phase Masks for Exoplanet Direct Detection
Olivier Guyon High Contrast Imaging with the CACAO real-time software framework
Oscar Carrion-Gonzalez The PCS instrument at the ELT: definition of science cases and expected science yield
Parker Johnson Real-time Vibration Control with Accelerometers for MagAO-X
Patricia Van de Walle Suárez Autodifferentiable PSF modeling for the VLT/ERIS vortex coronagraph
Peter Marley Chingaipe Status and performance of the Asgard/NOTT cold nulling camera
Pierre Baudoz Evaluating MICADO’s High‑Contrast Mode for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets and Disks
Raphaël Pourcelot Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics performance on METIS/ELT: Simulations, robustness analysis and impacts on high-contrast imaging science cases
Rebecca Zhang First Light for Near-Infrared Polarimetry on Keck/NIRC2
Rico Landman Extreme adaptive optics with machine learning: On-sky demonstration with MagAO-X and towards the ELT’s
Ronald Alexander Lopez A midplane analysis of HD110058's warped debris disk
Ruben Tandon The Active DAG/PLACID Coronagraph: Discovery Space and Binary Star Observing Mode
Ruslan Belikov Coronagraph Design Survey and Performance Analysis for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Saavidra Perera GPI 2.0: Adaptive Optics Upgrade
Sam Walker 2 Fast 2 Furious: Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing Through A Coronagraph
Sarah Steiger Calibration of MEMS DM actuator gains using a Zernike Wavefront Sensor on the HiCAT Testbed
Sasha Hinkley Characterizing Planets with ELT/METIS Near the Circumstellar Ice Line
Satoshi Itoh Development Progress of wide-spectral-band combined nuller systems using the one-dimensional diffraction-limited coronagraph
Simon Petrus X-SHYNE: A multi-approach analysis of 43 planetary analogue near-infrared medium-resolution spectra
Simon Petrus Detectability of O₂ in Simulated Low-Resolution Reflected Spectra of Earth-like Planets Observed with HWO
Stephen Eikenberry Photonic-Enabled ExoPlanet Spectroscopic Sensor (PEEPSS) for Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing and Imaging Spectroscopy on HWO
Steven Martos Probing the ELT’s limits towards Earth-like planets: costs and gains of molecular mapping
Steven Martos On-sky demonstration of the high transmission, high resolution VIPA spectrograph for close companions
Susan F. Redmond Dark zone maintenance for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
SWASTIK CHOWBAY Direct Imaging of Protoplanet Candidates in Protoplanetary Disks Using VLT/ERIS NIX L-band Observation
VIDYA VENKATESAN Constraints on the Orbit of the Young Substellar Companion GQ Lup B from High-Resolution Spectroscopy and VLTI/GRAVITY Astrometry
Vivek Vijayakumar Commissioning a new quad-AGPM coronagraph for mid-IR exoplanet imaging with LBTI
William Thompson SPIDERS First Light: a Coherent Path to High Contrast
Yinzi Xin Focal plane wavefront sensing and control with mode-sorting coronagraphs
Yoo Jung Kim A configurable mode-based imager using an active photonic integrated circuit: concept and initial laboratory results
Zhuhai Li A VLT/MUSE Survey for Accreting Planets in 75 Protoplanetary Disks
ZIYING GU Constraining the Evolution of Substellar Companions with Bayesian Ages: A New Detection from SCExAO/OASIS Survey