Characterizing and mitigating vibrations for SCExAO

Julien Lozi*, Olivier Guyon, Nemanja Jovanovic, Garima Singh, Sean Goebel, Barnaby Norris, Hirofumi Okita

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    Abstract

    The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument, under development for the Subaru Telescope, has currently the fastest on-sky wavefront control loop, with a pyramid wavefront sensor running at 3.5 kHz. But even at that speed, we are still limited by low-frequency vibrations. The current main limitation was found to be vibrations attributed mainly to the rotation of the telescope. Using the fast wavefront sensors, cameras and accelerometers, we managed to identify the origin of most of the vibrations degrading our performance. Low-frequency vibrations are coming from the telescope drive in azimuth and elevation, as well as the elevation encoders when the target is at transit. Other vibrations were found at higher frequency coming from the image rotator inside Subaru's adaptive optics facility AO188. Different approaches are being implemented to take care of these issues. The PID control of the image rotator has been tuned to reduce their high-frequency contribution. We are working with the telescope team to tune the motor drives and reduce the impact of the elevation encoder. A Linear Quadratic Gaussian controller (LQG, or Kalman filter) is also being implemented inside SCExAO to control these vibrations. These solutions will not only improve significantly SCExAOs performance, but will also help all the other instruments on the Subaru Telescope, especially the ones behind AO188. Ultimately, this study will also help the development of the TMT, as these two telescopes share very similar drives.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdaptive Optics Systems V
    EditorsEnrico Marchetti, Laird M. Close, Jean-Pierre Véran
    Place of PublicationBellingham, Washington
    PublisherSPIE
    Pages99090J-1-99090J-13
    Number of pages13
    ISBN (Electronic)9781510601987
    ISBN (Print)9781510601970
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    EventAdaptive Optics Systems V - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Duration: 26 Jun 20161 Jul 2016

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of SPIE
    PublisherSPIE
    Volume9909
    ISSN (Print)0277-786X

    Other

    OtherAdaptive Optics Systems V
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityEdinburgh
    Period26/06/161/07/16

    Keywords

    • Accelerometers
    • Control
    • Extreme Adaptive Optics
    • LQG
    • Vibrations

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