The adaptive optics lucky imager (AOLI): presentation, commissioning, and AIV innovations
arXiv:1807.09759 · doi:10.1117/12.2311982
Abstract
Here we present the Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI), a state-of-the-art instrument which makes use of two well proved techniques, Lucky Imaging (LI) and Adaptive Optics (AO), to deliver diffraction limited imaging at visible wavelengths, 20 mas, from ground-based telescopes. Thanks to its revolutionary TP3-WFS, AOLI shall have the capability of using faint reference stars. In the extremely-big telescopes era, the combination of techniques and the development of new WFS systems seems the clue key for success. We give details of the integration and verification phases explaining the defiance that we have faced and the innovative and versatile solutions for each of its subsystems that we have developed, providing also very fresh results after its first fully-working observing run at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT).
arXiv comment6 pages, 6 figures, conference. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.09354, arXiv:1608.04806
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