First on-sky results with the CANARY multi-object AO demonstrator on the WHT

Authors
Dr.
Richard Myers
Date and time
21 Nov 2010 - 23:00 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
0
Description

CANARY is a technical demonstrator for the proposed EAGLE instrument for European ELT. EAGLE will have twenty Integral Field Units patrolling a 5 arcminute field and requires a new form of adaptive optics to provide the required image quality for its 0.0375 arcsec image sampling: Laser Guide Star Multi-Object AO. This entails several significant technical innovations: open-loop control, atmospheric tomography, and new calibration methods. The CANARY demonstrator is currently in its first, natural guide star, phase, and the first results have been obtained on sky. CANARY Phase A is described and the first results are presented. The next, laser guide star, phase is then outlined.