The fourth bi-annual Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes meeting took place in October 2015 at the UCLA Conference Center in Southern California. The theme of the meeting was AO systems and related instrumentation and the special challenges they face on extremely large aperture telescopes. The conference gathered specialists to review and discuss the latest developments of the ELT’s current design in terms of AO systems, related instruments and science goals. The conference also reported on pathfinder projects planned or implemented on existing telescopes, including solar telescopes, which provide relevant results for the next ELT’s design phase. Special attention is given to key components and new ideas that have the potential to overcome the limitations of existing systems, in order to increase the scientific impact of the future ELT’s.
Current Issue, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2015
Articles
Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes 4 - Program Booklet
Gavel, Don
Effects of reconstruction layer profiles on atmospheric tomography in E-ELT AO systems
Saxennhuber, Daniela; Auzinger, Gunter; Le Louarn, Miska; Obereder, Andreas
Dissecting Star-forming regions with the GeMS MCAO instrument: lessons learned for optimal post-processing of WFAO data
Bernard, Ana¨ıs; Neichel, Benoit; Fusco, Thierry; Mugnier, Laurent; Bounissou, Sophie; Samal, Manash et al.
Calibrating the Non-Common Path Aberrations on the MOAO system RAVEN and
Lamb, Masen; Andersen, David; Veran, Jean-Pierre; Correia, Carlos; Lardiere, Olivier
Optical calibration of the M4 prototype toward the final unit
Briguglio, Runa; Pariani, Giorgio; Xompero, Marco; Riccardi, Armando; Adrighettoni, Mario; Biasi, Roberto et al.
Precise and deep photometry from the ground: on-sky science performance of MCAO
Turri, Paolo; McConnachie, Alan; Stetson, Peter; Fiorentino, Giuliana; Andersen, David
Variation around the Pyramid theme: optical recombination and optimal use of photons
Fauvarque, Olivier; Neichel, Benoit; Fuso, Thierry; Savage, Jean-Francois
PSF reconstruction for AO photometry and astrometry
Ascenso, Joana; Neichel, Benoit; Silva, Manuel; Fusco, Thierry; Garcia, Paulo
Low Wind Effect, the main limitation of the SPHERE instrument
Sauvage, Jean-François; Fusco, Thierry; Guesalaga, Andres; Wizinowitch, Peter; O'Neal, Jared; N'Diaye, Mamadou et al.
Laboratory tests on HeNOS, the MCAO test bench for NFIRAOS
Rosensteiner, Matthias; Turri, Paolo; Andersen, David; Spano, Paolo; Herriot, Glen
SPHERE extreme AO system On-sky operation, final performance and future improvements
Fusco, Thierry; Sauvage, Jean-Francois; Mouilelt, David; Beuzit, Jean-Luc; Dohlen, Kjetil; Petit, Cyril et al.
Estimating the outer scale in altitude - L0(h) - using the GeMS profiler
Guesalaga, Andres; Neichel, Benoit; Fusco, Thiery; Valenzuela, Javier; Oberti, Slvain; Masciadri, Elena et al.
An Integrated MASS/DIMM Monitor Based on a Low-Noise CCD Detector
Guesalaga, Andres; Osborne, James; Sarazin, Marco; Neichel, Benoit; Perera, Saavidra; Wilson, Richard et al.
Reducing adaptive optics latency using many-core processors
Barr, David; Basden, Alastair; Dipper, Nigel; Schwartz, Noah
Progress with the 4m high-order AO demonstrator, CHOUGH
Nazim, Bharmal; Holck, Daniel; Myers, Richard; Morris, Timothy; Dubbledam, Marc; Basden, Alastair et al.
MCAO numerical simulations for EST: analysis and parameter optimization
Montoya, Luzma; Montilla, Iciar; Collados, Manuel
OCAM2S: an integral shutter ultrafast and low noise wavefront sensor camera for laser guide stars adaptive optics systems
Gach, Jean-Luc; Feautrier, Philippe; Buey, Tristan; Rousset, Gerard; Gendron, Eric; Morris, Tim et al.
Deformable Mirrors developments at ESO
Vernet, Elise; Stroebele, Sefan
Analytical study of high altitude turbulence wide-field wavefront sensing: impact on the design and reconstruction quality of future solar AO systems
Montilla, Iciar; Collados, Manuel; Montoya, Luzma; Tallon, Michel
Experimental implementation of a Pyramid WFS: Towards the
Bond, Charlotte; El Hadi, Kacem; Sauvage, Jean-Francois; Fusco, Thirry; Coreia, Carlos; Fauvarque, Olivier et al.
Coupling of WFS with a segmented DM “Test of different concepts: SH, Pyramid, Zernike phase sensor”
Galland, Nicolas; El Hadi, Kacem; Dohlen, Kjetil; Sauvage, Jean-Francoiss; Fusco, Thierry; Marchis, Franck et al.
Anti-aliasing wave-front reconstruction with Shack-Hartmann sensors
Bond, Charlotte; Fusco, Thierry; Correia, Carlos; Veran, JeanPierre; Telxeira, Joel
State of the art IR cameras for wavefront sensing using e-APD MCT arrays
Feautrier, Pilippe; Gach, Jean-Luc
AO for MOSAIC, the E-ELT Multiple Object Spectrograph
Morris, Tim; Basden, Alastair; Bey, Trisan; Chemla, Fanny; Cnan, Jean-Marc; Correia, Carlos et al.
Measuring Segment Piston with a Dispersed Fringe Sensor on the Giant Magellan Telescope
van Dam, Marcos; McLeod, Brian; Bouchez, Antonin
Measuring Segment Piston with a Non-Redundant Pupil Mask on the Giant Magellan Telescope
van Dam, Marcos; Tuthill, Peter; Cheetham, Anthony
The use of CPU, GPU and FPGA in real-time control of adaptive optics systems
Rodríguez Ramos, Luis Fernando; Diaz Garcia, Jose Javier; Fernández Valdivia, Juan Jose; Chulani, Haresh; Colodro-Conde, Carlos; Rodriguez Ramos, Jose Manuel
Selex infrared sensors for astronomy – present and future
Baker, Ian; Maxey, Chris; Barnes, Keith
Near-infrared tip-tilt sensing at Keck: System architecture and on-sky performance
Rampy, Rachel; Femenia, Bruno; Lyke, Jim; Wizinowich, Peter; Cetre, Sylvain; Ragland, Sam et al.
Prototyping the GMT phasing camera with the Magellan AO system
Kopek, Derek; McLeod, Brian; McCracken, Kenneth; van Dam, Marcos; Bouchez, Antonin; Conder, Alan et al.
Filtering the interaction matrix in an adaptive optics system
Zhang, Xianyu; Gorceix, Nicolas; Goode, Philip
Pyramid versus Shack-Hartmann: Trade Study Results for the NFIRAOS NGS WFS
Veran, Jean-Pierre; Esposito, Simone; Spano, Paolo; Herriot, Glen; Andersen, David
Dark Wavefront Sensing
Ragazzoni, Roberto
Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics at Big Bear Solar Observatory
Schmidt, Dirk; Gorceix, Nicolas; Zhang, Xianyu; Marino, Jose; Goode, Phil; Rimmele, Thomas et al.
GMCAO for E-ELT: a feasibility study
Viotto, Valentina; Bergomi, Maria; Portaluri, Elisa; Dima, Marco; Farinato, Jocopo; Greggio, Davide et al.
Statistical and morphological analysis of mock galactic fields in the Global-MCAO perspective
Portaluri, Elisa; Viotto, Valentina; Bergomi, Maria; Biondi, Federico; Dima, Marco; Farinato, Jacopo et al.
Non common path aberration correction with non linear WFSs
Esposito, Simone; Pinna, Enrico; Puglisi, Alfio; Agapito, Guido; Veran, Jean Pierre; Herriot, Glen
Use of Laser Guide Star with Pyramid Wavefront Sensor
Blain, Celia; Esposito, Simone; Puglisi, Alfio; Agapito, Guido; Pinna, Enrico
INO Pyramidal Wavefront Sensor Demonstrator: first closed-loop on-sky operation at Mont-Mégantic Telescope
Martin, Olivier; Turbide, Simon; Legace, Francois; Levesque, Frederic; Anctil, Genevieve; Chateauneuf, Francois et al.
System analysis of the Segmented Pupil Experiment for Exoplanet Detection - SPEED - in view of the ELTs
Preis, Olivier; Martinez, Patrice; Gouvret, Carole; Dejonghe, Julien; Beaulieu, Mathilde; Janin-Potiron, Pierre et al.
Non Boltzmann Modeling of Sodium Guidestar Returns and Implications for Guidestar Linewidth
Hackett, Shawn; Johnson, Robert
A New Slow Focus Sensor for GeMS
Marin, Eduardo; Garrel, Vincent; Silvo, Gaetano; Montes, Vanessa; Trujillo, Chadwick; Rambold, William et al.
Implementation of SCAO for ELT-CAM / MICADO-MAORY
Clenet, Yann; Esposito, Simone; Buey, Tristan; Riccardi, Armando; Rousset, Gerard; Lombini, Matteo et al.
Laser-only AO, readout noise studies and AO verification and integration for ELTs
Basden, Alastair; Morris, Tim; Myers, Richard; Dipper, Nigel; Gendron, Eric; Vidal, Fabrice et al.
The GMT Dynamic Optical Simulation
Conan, Rod; Bouchez, Antonin; Quiros-Pacheco, Fernando; McLeod, Brian
Progress report on the ESO 4LGSF
Hackenberg, Wolfgang; Bonaccini Calia, Domenico; Guidolin, Ivan; Pfrommer, Thomas; Kern, Lothar; Dupuy, Christophe et al.
Wavefront control simulations for the Giant Magellan Telescope: Field-dependent segment piston control
Quiros-Pacheco, Fernando; Conan, Rod; McLeod, Brian; Irarrazaval, Ben; Bouchez, Antonin
Processing of external SLODAR turbulence profile measurements to support adaptive optics performance predictions
Butterley, Tim; Wilson, Richard; Sarazin, Marc
Development of multi time-step tomographic reconstruction with RAVEN
Ono, Yoshito; Masayuki, Akiyama; Oya, Shin; Lardiere, Olivier
Resolving the low-mass content of Westerlund 1 using MCAO
Andersen, Morten; Neichel, Benoit; Bernard, Anais
Recent Improvements to the Keck II Laser Guide Star Facility
Ragland, Sam; Chin, Jason; Wizinowich, Peter; Cetre, Sylvain; Lilley, Scott; Wetherell, Ed et al.
Point spread function determination for Keck adaptive optics: overview
Ragland, Sam; Jolissaint, Laurent; Wizinowich, Peter; Witzel, Gunther; Chock, Jon; Mader, Jeff et al.
Observations of the dynamic turbulence above La Palma using Stereo-SCIDAR
Osborn, James; Butterley, Timothy; Perera, Saavidra; Fohring, Dora; Wilson, Richard
Miniaturized Shack-Hartmann Wavefront-Sensors for ELTs
Goodwin, Michael; Zheng, Jessica; Lawrence, Jon; Richards, Sam; Leon-Saval, Sergio
A Fresnel propagation analysis for SPEED (Segmented Pupil Experiment for Exoplanet Detection)
Beaulieu, Mathilde; Abe, Lyu; Martinez, Patrice; Gouvret, Carole; Martinache, Frantz; Preis, Oliver et al.
Implementation of SLODAR atmospheric turbulence profiling to the ARGOS system
Mazzoni, Tommaso; Busoni, Lorenzo; Esposito, Simone; Bonaglia, Marco
Optical design of the Post Focal Relay of MAORY
Lombini, Matteo; Diolaiti, Emiliano; De Rosa, Adriano
Self-Coherent Camera as a focal plane phasing sensor - Overview and early comparison with the Zernike Phase Contrast Sensor
Janin-Potiron, Pierre; Martinez, Patrice; Baudoz, Pierre; Carbillet, Marcel
XAO at LBT: current performances in the visible and upcoming upgrade
Pinna, Enrico; Pedichini, Fernando; Esposito, Simone; Centrone, Mauro; Puglisi, Alfio; Farinato, Jacopo et al.
Modeling the pyramidal sensor by a ZEMAXTM user defined surface.
Antichi, Jacopo; Munari, Matteo; Magrin, Demetrio; Riccardi, Armando
Development of an ELT XAO testbed using a self referenced Mach-Zehnder wavefront sensor
Delacroix, Christian; Loupias, Magali; Langlois, Maud; Tallon, Michel; Thiébaut, Eric
Durham AO Real-time Controller (DARC) running on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
Bitenc, Urban; Basden, Alastair; Dipper, Nigel; Myers, Richard
Analysis of GeMS tip-tilt on-sky data: LQG implementation for vibration rejections
Leboulleux, Lucie; Sivo, Gaetano; Juvenal, Rémy; Kulcsár, Caroline; Garrel, Vincent; Conan, Jean-Marc et al.
Performance assessment for the linear control of adaptive optics systems: noise propagation and temporal errors
Juvenal, Rémy; Kulcsar, Caroline; Raynaud, Henri-François; Conan, Jean-Marc; Sivo, Gaetano
Tip-tilt modelling and control for GeMS: a performance comparison of identification techniques
Juvenal, Rémy; Kulcsar, Caroline; Raynaud, Henri-François; Conan, Jean-Marc; Petit, Cyril; Leboulleux, Lucie et al.
Commissioning of ARGOS at LBT: adaptive optics procedures
Busoni, Lorenzo; Bonaglia, Marco; Borelli, Jose; Deysenroth, Matthias; Esposito, Simone; Gaessler, Wolfgang et al.
Preliminary design of the MICADO calibration unit
Rodeghiero, Gabriele; Pott, Jörg-Uwe; Müller, Friedrich
Aligning the LINC-NIRVANA Natural Guide Stars MCAO system
Marafatto, Luca; Baumeister, Harald; Bertram, Thomas; Berwein, Jurgen; Briegel, Florian; Bizenberger, Peter et al.
Retrieving tip-tilt information from Tomographic Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Systems
Reeves, Andrew; Myers, Richard; Morris, Tim; Osborn, James; Bharmal, Nazim Ali
SHARK-NIR Channel: a high contrast imager with coronagraphic capabilities for the Large Binocular Telescope
Farinato, Jacopo; Baffa, Carlo; Baruffolo, Andrea; Bergomi, Maria; Carbonaro, Luca; Carolo, Elena et al.
The MAORY first-light adaptive optics module for E-ELT
Diolaiti, Emiliano; Agapito, Guido; Antichi, Jacopo; Arcidiacono, Carmelo; Baruffolo, Andrea; Bellazzini, Michele et al.
GeMS, the path toward AO facility
Garrel, Vincent; Sivo, Gaetano; Marin, Eduardo; Trujillo, Chadwick; Carrasco Damele, Rodrigo; Neichel, Benoit et al.
First Results of the Ground Layer Adaptive Optics System ARGOS
Orban de Xivry, Gilles; Bonaglia, Marco; Borelli, Jose; Busoni, Lorenzo; Deysenroth, Matthias; Esposito, Simone et al.
Adaptive Optics Point Spread Function Reconstruction at W. M. Keck Observatory in Laser & Natural Guide Star Modes : Final Developments
Jolissaint, Laurent; Ragland, Sam; Wizinowich, Peter
Optimizing use of multiple stars for near-infrared tip-tilt compensation at the W. M. Keck Observatory
Samulski, Camille; Rampy, Rachel; Femenia, Bruno; Wizinowich, Peter
Design and Development Status of MKID Integral Field Spectrographs for High Contrast Imaging
Meeker, Seth; Mazin, Benjamin; Jensen-Clem, Rebecca; Walter, Alex; Szypryt, Paul; Strader, Matthew et al.
Laser guide star adaptive optics at Lick Observatory
Gavel, Donald; Dillon, Daren; Kupke, Renate; Rudy, Alex
On-sky results of Raven, a MOAO science demonstrator at Subaru Telescope
Lardiere, Olivier; Dave, Andersen; Bradley, Colin; Oya, Shin; Ono, Yoshito; Gamroth, Darryl et al.
New Cophasing and AO strategies for an extremely large telescope dedicated to extremely high contrast: The Colossus Project
Moretto, Gilles; Kuhn, Jeff R.; Langlois, Maud; Tallon, Michel; Thiebaut, Eric; Berdyugina, Svetlana et al.
SCExAO: the first high contrast exoplanet imager on an ELT?
Lozi, Julien; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Guyon, Olivier; Males, Jared; Singh, Garima; Doughty, Danielle et al.
Optimizing LGS WFS Pixel Processing in the Context of Evolving Turbulence and Sodium Profile
Wang, Lianqi
Simulations of AO for the E-ELT and its instruments
Le Louarn, Miska
Science operation of the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM)
Tokovinin, Andrey
Adaptive Optics Program at TMT
Boyer, Corinne
Commissioning ShARCS: the Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera-Spectrograph for the Lick Observatory 3-m telescope
McGurk, Rosalie
Preliminary performance analysis of a LGS system for GTC
Montilla, Iciar; Reyes Garcia-Talavera, Marcos; Bello, Dolores
E-ELT M4 Unit updated design and prototype results
Biasi, Roberto; Gallieni, Daniele; Briguglio, Runa; Vernet, Elise; Andrighettoni, Mario; Angerer, Gerald et al.
Laser Pointing Camera: a valuable tool for the LGS-AO operations
Centrone, Mauro; Bonaccini Calia, Domenico; Pedichini, Fernando; Cerruto, Antonio; Ricciardi, Andrea; Ambrosino, Filippo
Astrometry with MCAO at Gemini and at ELTs
Fritz, Tobias
Coupling of WFS with a segmented DM “Test of different concepts: SH, Pyramid, Zernike phase sensor”
El Hadi, Kacem
Astrometry with MCAO at Gemini and at ELTs
Fritz, Tobias; Kallivayalil, Nitya; Carrasco, Eleazar R.; Neichel, Benoit; Davies, Richard; Beaton, Rachael et al.
SPHERE extreme AO system On-sky operation, final performance and future improvements
Fusco, Thierry; Sauvage, Jean-François; Dohlen, Kjetil; Mouillet, David; Girard, Julien; Kasper, Markus et al.
Commissioning of ARGOS at LBT: adaptive optics procedures
Busoni, Lorenzo; Bonaglia, Marco; Borelli, Jose; Deysenroth, Matthias; Esposito, Simone; Gaessler, Wolfgang et al.
Adaptive Optics Point Spread Function Reconstruction at W. M. Keck Observatory in Laser & Natural Guide Star Modes : Final Developments
Jolissaint, Laurent; Ragland, Sam; Wizinowich, Peter
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