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A prototype of a low cost Adaptive Optics (AO) system has been developed at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) and tested at the 2.2m telescope of the Calar Alto observatory. We present here the status of the project, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Aceituno , S. F. Sanchez , J. L. Ortiz , F. J. Aceituno

We present an analytical derivation of the on-axis performance of Adaptive Optics systems using a given number of guide stars of arbitrary altitude, distributed at arbitrary angular positions in the sky. The expressions of the residual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Tatulli , A. N. Ramaprakash

SAXO+ is a planned enhancement of the existing SAXO, the VLT/ SPHERE adaptive optics system, deployed on ESO's Very Large Telescope. This upgrade is designed to significantly enhance the instrument's capacity to detect and analyze young…

The Multiconjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) has successfully demonstrated on sky both Star Oriented (SO) and Layer Oriented (LO) multiconjugate adaptive optics techniques. While SO has been realized using 3 Shack-Hartmann…

Multi-object astronomical adaptive-optics (MOAO) is now a mature wide-field observation mode to enlarge the adaptive-optics-corrected field in a few specific locations over tens of arc-minutes. The work-scope provided by open-loop…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Carlos M. Correia , Kate Jackson , Jean-Pierre Veran , David Andersen , Olivier Lardiere , Colin Bradley

Here we describe a simple, efficient, and most importantly fully operational point-spread-function(PSF)-reconstruction approach for laser-assisted ground layer adaptive optics (GLAO) in the frame of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Thierry Fusco , R. Bacon , S. Kamann , S. Conseil , Benoit Neichel , Carlos Correia , Olivier Beltramo-Martin , Joel Vernet , Johann Kolb , Pierre-Yves Madec

SenAOReFoc is a closed-loop sensorbased adaptive optics (AO) and remote focusing control software that works with a deformable mirror (DM) and a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWS). It is programmed in Python and is open-source on Github…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-21 Jiahe Cui , Karen M. Hampson , Matthew Wincott , Martin J. Booth

The future large adaptive telescopes will trigger new constraints for the calibration of Adaptive Optics (AO) systems equipped with pre-focal Deformable Mirrors (DM). The image of the DM actuators grid as seen by the Wave-Front Sensor (WFS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. T. Heritier , T. Fusco , S. Oberti , B. Neichel , S. Esposito , P. -Y. Madec

Modern Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs) like the Extremely Large Telescope, which is currently under construction, depend heavily on Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to correct for atmospheric distortions. However, a residual blur…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Roland Wagner , Jenny Niebsch , Ronny Ramlau

This paper introduces a novel multi-objective integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework to enable collaborative wireless sensing in conjunction with over-the-air federated-edge learning (OTA-FEEL). The framework enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Laser Guide Star (LGS) Shack-Hartmann (SH) wavefront sensors for next generation Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) require low-noise, large format (about 1Mpx), fast detectors to match the need for a large number of subapertures and a good…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Guido Agapito , Lorenzo Busoni , Giulia Carlà , Cédric Plantet , Simone Esposito , Paolo Ciliegi

Observations close to the diffraction limit, with high Strehl ratios from Adaptive Optics (AO)-assisted instruments mounted on ground-based telescopes are a reality and will become even more widespread with the next generation instruments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Matteo Simioni , Carmelo Arcidiacono , Andrea Grazian , Marco Gullieuszik , Elisa Portaluri , Benedetta Vulcani , Roland Wagner , Anita Zanella

We present a simple method of extracting a small number of reference optical turbulence and wind profiles from a large dataset for single conjugate and extreme adaptive optics simulations. These reference profiles can be used in slow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 O. J. D. Farley

We present a detailed discussion of how to obtain precise stellar photometry in crowded fields using images from multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) systems, with the intent of informing the scientific development of this key technology…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 P. Turri , A. W. McConnachie , P. B. Stetson , G. Fiorentino , D. R. Andersen , G. Bono , D. Massari , J. -P. Veran

Underwater visual localization remains challenging due to wavelength-dependent attenuation, poor texture, and non-Gaussian sensor noise. We introduce MARVO, a physics-aware, learning-integrated odometry framework that fuses underwater image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sacchin Sundar , Atman Kikani , Aaliya Alam , Sumukh Shrote , A. Nayeemulla Khan , A. Shahina

The ALMA Observation Support Tool (OST) is an ALMA simulator which is interacted with solely via a standard web browser. It is aimed at users who may or may not be experts in interferometry, or those that do not wish to familarise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-20 I. Heywood , A. Avison , C. J. Williams

This article reports on the results of simulations conducted to assess the performance of a modal Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on a 10m telescope with one Deformable Mirror (DM) conjugated to the telescope pupil and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Femenia , N. Devaney

Since its beginnings, diffraction-limited ground-based adaptive optics (AO) imaging has been limited to wavelengths in the near IR ({\lambda} > 1 micron) and longer. Visible AO ({\lambda} < 1 micron) has proven to be difficult because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-03 Derek Kopon , Jared R. Males , Laird M. Close , Victor Gasho

HARMONI is a visible and NIR integral field spectrograph, providing the E-ELT's core spectroscopic capability at first light. HARMONI will work at the diffraction limit of the E-ELT, thanks to a Classical and a Laser Tomographic AO system.…

The achievement of $\mu$arcsec relative astrometry with ground-based, near infrared, extremely large telescopes requires a significant endeavour of calibration strategies. In this paper we address the removal of instrument optical…