Performance of a modal zone wavefront recovery algorithm (Hudgin) implemented on FPGAs for its use in ELTs
The use of AO in Extremely Large Telescopes, used to improve performances in smaller telescopes, becomes now mandatory to achieve diffraction limited images...
Performance of FLAMES at the VLT: one year of operation
Four years after its announcement at SPIE, FLAMES, the VLT fibre facility, has been completed, integrated into the VLT observatory and commissioned. It has been...
With the increasing size of the ground based telescopes, the lines used to carry and distribute cryogenic gas or fluid to instruments need continuously to be...
Performance of MAGIC stellar intensity interferometer and expansion to MAGIC + CTAO-LST1 stellar intensity interferometer
A new generation of optical intensity interferometers are emerging in recent years taking advantage of the existing infrastructure of Imaging Atmospheric...
Performance of satellite-to-ground communications link between ARTEMIS and the Optical Ground Station
The European Space Agency has built an optical ground station sited at the Observatorio del Teide operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. This...
Performance of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) high-resolution near-infrared multi-object fiber spectrograph
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) uses a dedicated 300-fiber, narrow-band near-infrared (1.51-1.7 μm), high resolution (R~22...
Performance of the first-light adaptive optics system of LBT by means of CAOS simulations
This presentation reports the numerical simulations we have done in order to evaluate the performance of the first-light AO system of LBT. The simulation tool...
Performance of the Fourier transform reconstructor for the European Extremely Large Telescope
The forthcoming Extremely Large Telescopes, and the new generation of Extreme Adaptive Optics systems, carry on a boost in the number of actuators that makes...