Adaptive optics on-sky demonstrator for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Michael Goodwin; Jessica Zheng; Jon Lawrence; Samuel Richards; Alexander Arriola; Nick Cvetojevic; Simon Gross; Barnaby Norris

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Adaptive optics on-sky demonstrator for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

Michael Goodwin, Jessica Zheng, Jon Lawrence, Samuel Richards, Alexander Arriola, Nick Cvetojevic, Simon Gross, Barnaby Norris

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The Australian Astronomical Observatory is currently investigating the use of adaptive optics technologies for the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. It might be that ground-layer or multi-object adaptive optics is beneficial for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (seeing ∼1.5). Key to achieving this goal is an adaptive optics test-bench developed for laboratory experiments and on-sky demonstration. The test-bench provides a facility to demonstrate on-sky natural guide star adaptive optics as well as second stage correction with active injection into single mode waveguides. The test-bench provides wide field access of up to 20 arcminutes for testing our plug-plate distributed wavefront sensors. Data has been collected in a range of seeing conditions where closed-loop corrections were performed. We present the design, results and plans for the adaptive optics on-sky demonstrator.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adaptive Optics Systems V
Editors	Enrico Marchetti, Laird M. Close, Jean-Pierre Véran
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510601987
ISBN (Print)	9781510601970
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232241
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Adaptive Optics Systems V - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jun 2016 → 1 Jul 2016

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	9909
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Adaptive Optics Systems V
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	26/06/16 → 1/07/16

Keywords

Adaptive Optics
Anglo-Australian Telescope
Shack-Hartmann
Test-bench
Wavefront-Sensors

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Goodwin, M, Zheng, J, Lawrence, J, Richards, S, Arriola, A, Cvetojevic, N, Gross, S & Norris, B 2016, Adaptive optics on-sky demonstrator for the Anglo-Australian Telescope. in E Marchetti, LM Close & J-P Véran (eds), Adaptive Optics Systems V., 990933, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 9909, SPIE, Bellingham, Washington, pp. 1-14, Adaptive Optics Systems V, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 26/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232241

Adaptive optics on-sky demonstrator for the Anglo-Australian Telescope. / Goodwin, Michael; Zheng, Jessica; Lawrence, Jon et al.
Adaptive Optics Systems V. ed. / Enrico Marchetti; Laird M. Close; Jean-Pierre Véran. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2016. p. 1-14 990933 (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 9909).

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