Status update of the canary on-sky MOAO demonstrator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Gendron, E ^a   Morris, T ^b   Hubert, Z ^a   Myers, R ^b   Longmore, A ^c   Rousset, G ^a   Talbot, G ^b   Vidal, F ^a   Dipper, N ^b   Gratadour, D ^a   Looker, N ^b   Brangier, M ^a   Younger, E ^b   Sevin, A ^a   Basden, A ^b   Perret, D ^a   Young, L ^b   Atkinson, D ^c   Chemla, F ^d   Henry, D ^c   Butterley, T ^b   Laporte, P ^d   Guzman, D ^b   Marteaud, M ^a   Geng, D ^b   Vedrenne, N ^e   Harrison, M ^b   Fusco, T ^e   Guesalaga, A ^f   Dunlop, C ^b   Tood, S ^c   Dee, K ^g   Dickson, C ^c   Greenaway, A ^h   Stobie, B ^c   Dalgarno, H ^h   Skvarc, J ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e ONERA   (France)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g Engineering and Project Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^h HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes; Laser guide star; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; LASER GUIDE STAR; OVERALL STABILITIES; WILLIAM HERSCHEL TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77957827888     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857668     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

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2. Morris , T., Hubert, Z., Myers, R., et al., "CANARY: The NGS/LGS MOAO demonstrator for EAGLE", in the 1st AO4ELT Conference - Adaptative Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes proceedings, edited by Y. Clénet, J.-M. Conan, T. Fusco and G. Rousset, published by EDP Sciences, Paris, 08003 (2010).
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4. Vidal, F., Gendron, E., Rousset, G., "A tomography approach for MOAO", JOSA, accepted (2010).
5. Vidal, F., Gendron, E., Sevin, A., Kellerer, A., Rousset, G., Hubert, Z., Fusco, T., Myers, R.M., "Tomographic tests for MOAO on the SESAME bench", in the 1st AO4ELT Conference - Adaptative Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes proceedings, edited by Y. Clénet, J.-M. Conan, T. Fusco and G. Rousset, published by EDP Sciences, Paris, 07001 (2010).
6. Dipper, N. A., Basden, A., Looker, N. E., Gendron, E., D. Geng, Gratadour, D., Hubert, Z., Vidal, F., Myers, R. M., Rousset, G., Sevin, A., Younger, E. J., "The real-time control system for the CANARY multi-object adaptive optics on-sky demonstrator", in this conference, Proc SPIE, 7736, 7736-174 (2010).