The numerical simulation tool for the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system
Abstract
The Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY (MAORY) is and Adaptive Optics module to be mounted on the ESO European-Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). It is a hybrid Natural and Laser Guide System that will perform the correction of the atmospheric turbulence volume above the telescope feeding the Multi-AO Imaging Camera for Deep Observations Near Infrared spectro-imager (MICADO). We developed an end-to-end Monte- Carlo adaptive optics simulation tool to investigate the performance of a the MAORY and the calibration, acquisition, operation strategies. MAORY will implement Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics combining Laser Guide Stars (LGS) and Natural Guide Stars (NGS) measurements. The simulation tool implements the various aspect of the MAORY in an end to end fashion. The code has been developed using IDL and uses libraries in C++ and CUDA for efficiency improvements. Here we recall the code architecture, we describe the modeled instrument components and the control strategies implemented in the code.
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@article{arxiv.1608.00386,
title = {The numerical simulation tool for the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system},
author = {Carmelo Arcidiacono and Laura Schreiber and Giovanni Bregoli and Emiliano Diolaiti and Italo Foppiani and Guido Agapito and Alfio Puglisi and Marco Xompero and Sylvain Oberti and Giuseppe Cosentino and Matteo Lombini and Chris R. Butler and Paolo Ciliegi and Fausto Cortecchia and Mauro Patti and Simone Esposito and Philippe Feautrier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00386},
year = {2016}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure, Proceeding 9909 310 of the conference SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016, 26 June 1 July 2016 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK