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R&D activity in INAF on light instrumentation for continuous optical turbulence monitoring
Camilo Weinberger, Elena Masciadri, Luca Carbonaro +5
Measurements of optical turbulence are essential in both ground-based astronomy and free-space optical communication systems contexts for multiple reasons including supporting and…
Neural networks applied to forecasting the astroclimatic and meteorological parameters in an operational context
C. Weinberger, E. Masciadri, M. De Sepibus +4
Forecasting optical turbulence and atmospheric parameters is crucial for science operations of present and new generation ground-based telescopes (ELT) as well as for free-space op…
Establishing baseline model performances for optical turbulence forecasting
M. De Sepibus, E. Masciadri, C. Weinberger +4
Accurate forecasting of optical turbulence (OT) is useful to optimise telescope scheduling and maximising observing efficiency, as the performance of adaptive optics systems strong…
Establishing baseline model performances for optical turbulence forecasting
M. De Sepibus, E. Masciadri, C. Weinberger +2
Accurate optical turbulence (OT) forecasts help telescopes observe with maximum efficiency, as the performance of adaptive optics (AO) systems strongly depends on turbulence condit…
Laser-based metrology systems vs wavefront sensing techniques: a comparative overview between the Large Binocular Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory for the telescope alignment and collimation tracking
Luca Rosignoli, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Sandrine J. Thomas +26
This work presents a comparative overview of the collimation and alignment strategies employed by two leading 8m-class facilities: the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Vera…
Optical turbulence forecast for ground-based astronomy and free-space optical communication
Elena Masciadri, Alessio Turchi, Camilo Weinberger +2
Forecasting optical turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere has been an ambitious challenge for the astronomical scientific community for several decades. While earlier research prima…
FAST: A software suite for automatic weather and optical turbulence forecast on ground-based telescope sites
A. Turchi, E. Masciadri, L. Fini
In this contribution we present the FAST, which is a comprehensive software suite that aims to streamline and automatically manage the forecast of atmospheric and astroclimatic par…
Optical turbulence forecast for the European Solar Telescope (EST): the challenge of the day-time regime
Elena Masciadri, Alessio Turchi, Luca Fini
In this contribution we present preliminary results of a study applied to the Observatories of Roque de Los Muchachos (La Palma) and Teide (Tenerife) in Canary Islands aiming to in…
FATE -- an operational automatic system for optical turbulence forecasting at the Very Large Telescope
Elena Masciadri, Alessio Turchi, Luca Fini +5
In this contribution we report the on-going progresses of the project FATE, an operational automatic forecast system conceived to deliver forecasts of a set of astroclimatic and at…
Operational forecast of the PSF figures of merit
A. Turchi, G. Agapito, E. Masciadri +6
The optimization and scheduling of scientific observations done with instrumentation supported by adaptive optics could greatly benefit from the forecast of PSF figures of merit (F…
Filtering techniques to enhance optical turbulence forecast performances at short time scales
E. Masciadri, G. Martelloni, A. Turchi
The efficiency of the management of top-class ground-based astronomical facilities supported by Adaptive Optics (AO) relies on our ability to forecast the optical turbulence (OT) a…
LBT observations of the HR 8799 planetary system: First detection of HR8799e in H band
S. Esposito, D. Mesa, A. Skemer +33
We have performed H and Ks band observations of the planetary system around HR 8799 using the new AO system at the Large Binocular Telescope and the PISCES Camera. The excellent in…