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MORFEO control strategy
Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +7
The ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will offer unprecedented sensitivity and resolution in the near-infrared, marking a new era for ground-based astronomy. Among its key imagin…
Characterization of the MUSE NFM PSF as a function of atmospheric conditions: TipTop calibration
Enrico Congiu, Fuyan Bian, Carlo F. Manara +8
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) achieves exceptional spatial resolution in narrow-field mode (NFM) thanks to the GALACSI adaptive optics (AO) system. However, limitati…
MORFEO: Advancing Towards Final Design
Lorenzo Busoni, Guido Agapito, Marco Bonaglia +106
The Multiconjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations (MORFEO) is a first-generation adaptive optics module for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), designed to deliver a d…
MORFEO wavefront error budget
Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +2
MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY) is the multi-conjugate adaptive optics module of the ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), design…
J1250+0455AB an ultracool binary in a hierarchical triple system
Sayan Baig, R. L. Smart, Hugh R. A. Jones +7
We report the discovery of the ultracool dwarf binary system J1250+0455AB, a low-mass (M 0.2 M) system in which the components straddle the M/L dwa…
Phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope: Lab Experiments and First On-sky Demonstration
Maggie Y. Kautz, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close +21
The large apertures of the upcoming generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes will enable unprecedented angular resolutions that scale as /D and higher sensitivi…
MAVIS: Enabling High-Precision Ground-Based Astrometry in the Visible Spectrum
Mojtaba Taheri, Jesse Cranney, Antonino Marasco +9
MAVIS (the MCAO-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph), planned for the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility, represents an innovative step in Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) sys…
SPRINT for WFAO systems
Guido Agapito, Cédric Plantet, Cédric Taïssir Heritier
The calibration of future wide field adaptive optics (WFAO) systems requires knowledge of the geometry of the system, in particular the alignment parameters between the sub-apertur…
Strategy for sensing petal mode in presence of AO residual turbulence with pyramid wavefront sensor
Nicolas Levraud, Vincent Chambouleyron, Jean François Sauvage +9
With the Extremely Large Telescope-generation telescopes come new challenges. The complexity of these telescopes' pupil creates new problems for Adaptive Optics. In particular, the…
Near-Infrared Observations of Outflows and YSOs in the Massive Star-Forming Region AFGL 5180
S. Crowe, R. Fedriani, J. C. Tan +30
Methods: Broad- and narrow-band imaging of AFGL 5180 was made in the NIR with the LBT, in both seeing-limited ($\sim0.5\arcsec$) and high angular resolution ($\sim0.09\arcsec$) Ada…
SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future
Enrico Pinna, Fabio Rossi, Guido Agapito +27
The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be seen such as precursor for the ELT SCAO systems, combining together key technologies such as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptiv…
MORFEO enters final design phase
Lorenzo Busoni, Guido Agapito, Alessandro Ballone +81
MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY), the MCAO system for the ELT, will provide diffraction-limited optical quality to the large fiel…
NGSs acquisition in MORFEO
Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +3
MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observation) is the future multi-conjugate adaptive optics system for the ESO ELT that will feed the instrument MICADO (Multi-…
TIPTOP: cone effect for single laser adaptive optics systems
Guido Agapito, Cédric Plantet, Fabio Rossi +6
TIPTOP is a python library that is able to quickly compute Point Spread Functions (PSF) of any kind of Adaptive Optics systems. This library has multiple objectives: support the ex…
GMP-selected dual and lensed AGNs: selection function and classification based on near-IR colors and resolved spectra from VLT/ERIS, KECK/OSIRIS, and LBT/LUCI
F. Mannucci, M. Scialpi, A. Ciurlo +44
The Gaia-Multi-Peak (GMP) technique can be used to identify large numbers of dual or lensed AGN candidates at sub-arcsec separation, allowing us to study both multiple SMBHs in the…
The ESO's Extremely Large Telescope Working Groups
Paolo Padovani, Michele Cirasuolo, Remco van der Burg +82
Since 2005 ESO has been working with its community and industry to develop an extremely large optical/infrared telescope. ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT for short, is a re…
The SOUL view of IRAS20126+4104. Kinematics and variability of the H jet from a massive protostar
F. Massi, A. Caratti o Garatti, R. Cesaroni +20
We exploit the increased sensitivity of the recently installed AO SOUL at the LBT to obtain new high-spatial-resolution NIR images of the massive young stellar object IRAS20126+410…
End-to-end simulations of a near-infrared pyramid sensor on Keck II
Cédric Plantet, Guido Agapito, Christophe Giordano +3
The future upgrade of Keck II telescope's adaptive optics system will include a pyramid wavefront sensor working in the near-infrared (J and H band). It will benefit from the recen…
PSF nowcast using PASSATA simulations -- Towards a PSF forecast
A. Turchi, G. Agapito, E. Masciadri +8
Characterizing the PSF of adaptive optics instruments is of paramount importance both for instrument design and observation planning/optimization. Simulation software, such as PASS…
BRUTE, PSF Reconstruction for the SOUL pyramid-based Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics facility of the LBT
Carmelo Arcidiacono, Andrea Grazian, Anita Zanella +11
The astronomical applications greatly benefit from the knowledge of the instrument PSF. We describe the PSF Reconstruction algorithm developed for the LBT LUCI instrument assisted…
Spatiotemporal statistics of the turbulent piston-removed phase and Zernike coefficients for two distinct beams
Cédric Plantet, Giulia Carlà, Guido Agapito +1
In the context of adaptive optics for astronomy, one can rely on the statistics of the turbulent phase to assess a part of the system's performance. Temporal statistics with one so…
Tip-tilt anisoplanatism in MCAO-assisted astrometric observations
Giulia Carlà, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +3
A new era of ground-based observations, either in the infrared with the next-generation of 25-40m extremely large telescopes or in the visible with the 8m Very Large Telescope, is…
Temporal spectrum of multi-conjugate adaptive optics residuals and impact of tip-tilt anisoplanatism on astrometric observations
Giulia Carlà, Cédric Plantet, Lorenzo Busoni +1
Multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) will assist a new era of ground-based astronomical observations with the extremely large telescopes and the Very Large Telescope. High precis…
MAVIS: performance estimation of the adaptive optics module
Guido Agapito, Daniele Vassallo, Cédric Plantet +5
The MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph (MAVIS) is a new visible instrument for ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its Adaptive Optics Module (AOM) must provide extreme adap…