Bibcode
Moreno Raso, Javier; Serrano, Javier; Argelaguet, Heribert; Lamensans, Mikel; González, Jonatan; Martín, Alberto; Pastor, Carmen; Ramos, Gonzalo; Belenguer, Tomás; Sánchez, Antonio; Rodríguez-Ramos, L. F.
Bibliographical reference
Adaptive Optics Systems II. Edited by Ellerbroek, Brent L.; Hart, Michael; Hubin, Norbert; Wizinowich, Peter L. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7736, pp. 77364B-77364B-12 (2010).
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Description
The IACAT (IAC Atmosphere and Telescope) Simulator is an Optical Ground
Support Equipment which simulates atmospheric turbulence and reproduces
the performance of three very different telescopes: GTC and WHT, located
at the Observatorio Del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma (Canary
Islands), and OGS which is located at the Observatorio Del Teide in
Tenerife (Canary Islands). Its mission is to provide Scientists with the
same measurement conditions as the real telescope but in a friendly
laboratory environment, to assist in the development of new adaptive
optics methods based on FPGAs. The most important telescope
characteristics are simulated, such as f number, pupil size and
position, magnification, central obscuration, etc. Up to 13 stellar
objects can be created, individually or as binary stars with specific
angular separations down to miliarcseconds. For the atmosphere
simulation, it allows the creation of three different turbulence layers
concurrently with different altitude and wind speed ranges.