Comparison of the coronagraphic profiles acquired on 2018-04-01 on the internal source (left; test CT01) and on sky (right; test CT02) with coronagraphic image reconstruction based on realistic inputs (see Appendix C). The theoretical performance of the APLC in the presence of amplitude errors is also plotted (dashed green curve). For the on-sky data, the image reconstruction includes ExAO residual wavefront errors based on SAXO real-time telemetry (see Appendix B). The blue shadowed region shows the region masked by the focal-plane mask of the APLC.