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astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Data-calibrated point spread function prediction: General description of the method and demonstration on MUSE-NFM

Arseniy Kuznetsov, Benoit Neichel, Sylvain Oberti +1

Precise knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) underpins many data analysis steps in astronomy, from photometry and astrometry to source de-blending and deconvolution. In ada…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

GRAVITY+ adaptive optics (GPAO) tests in Europe

Florentin Millour, Guillaume Bourdarot, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin +54

We present in this proceeding the results of the test phase of the GRAVITY+ adaptive optics. This extreme AO will enable both high-dynamic range observations of faint companions (i…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

GRAVITY+ Wavefront Sensors: High-Contrast, Laser Guide Star, Adaptive Optics systems for the VLTI

G. Bourdarot, F. Eisenhauer, S. Yazıcı +53

We present the Wavefront Sensor units of the Gravity Plus Adaptive Optics (GPAO) system, which will equip all 8m class telescopes of the VLTI and is an instrumental part of the GRA…

astro-ph.IM2024

Striving towards robust phase diversity on-sky: Implementing LIFT for VLT/MUSE-NFM

Arseniy Kuznetsov, Sylvain Oberti, Benoit Neichel +1

The recent IRLOS upgrade for VLT/MUSE narrow field mode (NFM) introduced a full-pupil mode to enhance sensitivity and sky coverage. This involved replacing the 2x2 Shack-Hartmann s…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 18 cited

Non-modulated pyramid wavefront sensor: Use in sensing and correcting atmospheric turbulence

Guido Agapito, Enrico Pinna, Simone Esposito +2

Context. The diffusion of adaptive optics systems in astronomical instrumentation for large ground-based telescopes is rapidly increasing and the pyramid wavefront sensor is replac…

astro-ph.IM2023

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 21 cited

The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, Roberto Abuter +134

The GRAVITY instrument has been revolutionary for near-infrared interferometry by pushing sensitivity and precision to previously unknown limits. With the upgrade of GRAVITY and th…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Performance characterization and near-realtime monitoring of MUSE adaptive optics modes at Paranal

T. Wevers, F. J. Selman, A. Reyes +13

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is an integral field spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope Unit Telescope 4, capable of laser guide star assisted and tomographic ad…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

Super-resolution wavefront reconstruction

Sylvain Oberti, Carlos Correia, Thierry Fusco +2

Super-Resolution (SR) is a technique that seeks to upscale the resolution of a set of measured signals. SR retrieves higher-frequency signal content by combining multiple lower res…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Key wavefront sensors features for laser-assisted tomographic adaptive optics systems on the Extremely Large Telescope

Thierry Fusco, Guido Agapito, Benoit Neichel +10

Laser guide star (LGS) wave-front sensing (LGSWFS) is a key element of tomographic adaptive optics system. However, when considering Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) scales, the LGS…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

First Light for GRAVITY Wide: Large Separation Fringe Tracking for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, R. Abuter +114

GRAVITY+ is the upgrade of GRAVITY and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) with wide-separation fringe tracking, new adaptive optics, and laser guide stars on all four 8…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Infrared tip-tilt sensing: on-sky experience, lessons learned and unsolved problems

Marcos A. van Dam, Sylvain Oberti, Johann Kolb +3

Infrared tip-tilt sensors (IR TTSs) have been deployed on three different laser guide star adaptive optics (AO) systems on three different telescopes. These IR TTS benefit from the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Instrumentation for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope

Suzanne Ramsay, Michele Cirasuolo, Paola Amico +21

Design and construction of the instruments for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) began in 2015. We present here a brief overview of the status of the ELT Instrumentation Plan.…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

Adaptive optics design status of MAORY, the MCAO system of European ELT

Lorenzo Busoni, Guido Agapito, Cedric Plantet +5

MAORY is the Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY for the European ELT aimed at providing a 1 arcmin corrected field to MICADO, a near-infrared spectro-imager with a focus on astr…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

MAORY AO performances

Guido Agapito, Cedric Plantet, Lorenzo Busoni +7

The Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY (MAORY) should provide 30% SR in K band (50% goal) on half of the sky at the South Galactic Pole. Assessing its performance and the sensit…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 64 cited

Physics-based model of the adaptive-optics corrected point-spread-function

Romain Fétick, Thierry Fusco, Benoit Neichel +8

Context. Adaptive optics (AO) systems greatly increase the resolution of large telescopes, but produce complex point spread function (PSF) shapes, varying in time and across the fi…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 12 cited

A new calibration strategy for adaptive telescopes with pyramid WFS

C. T. Heritier, S. Esposito, T. Fusco +7

Several telescopes include large Deformable Mirrors (DM) located directly inside the telescope. These adaptive telescopes trigger new constraints for the calibration of the Adaptiv…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 588 cited

First Light for GRAVITY: Phase Referencing Optical Interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, M. Accardo +130

GRAVITY is a new instrument to coherently combine the light of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer to form a telescope with an equivalent 130 m di…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2 cited

The numerical simulation tool for the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Laura Schreiber, Giovanni Bregoli +14

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…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 4 cited

Layer Oriented Wavefront sensor for MAD on Sky operations

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Matteo Lombini, Roberto Ragazzoni +15

The Multiconjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) has successfully demonstrated on sky both Star Oriented (SO) and Layer Oriented (LO) multiconjugate adaptive optics techniques…