CIAO: wavefront sensors for GRAVITY

Autor: Frank Eisenhauer, M. Ebert, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Frédéric Gonté, Lieselotte Jochum, Gert Finger, J. Moreno-Ventas, Johann Kolb, Stefan Hippler, Sarah Kendrew, Michael Esselborn, Armin Huber, Marcos Suarez, Jose Ramos, Tobias Adler, Martin Kulas, M. Riquelme, Johana Panduro, Sylvain Oberti, Adrian M. Glauser, Jürgen Ott, Laurent Jocou, Gérard Zins, Yann Clénet, Fanny Chemla, E. Müller, Zoltan Hubert, Rainer Lenzen, G. Rousset, M. Mellein, Gerd Jakob, Nicolas Schuhler, Henri Bonnet, Wolfgang Brandner, Pierre Bourget, Werner Laun, Francoise Delplancke, Casey Deen, Udo Neumann, Eric Gendron, Thomas Henning, Silvia Scheithauer, Ralf Klein, Laurent Pallanca
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Haute résolution angulaire en astrophysique, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the SPIE
Adaptive Optics Systems V
Adaptive Optics Systems V, Jun 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Popis: GRAVITY is a second generation near-infrared VLTI instrument that will combine the light of the four unit or four auxiliary telescopes of the ESO Paranal observatory in Chile. The major science goals are the observation of objects in close orbit around, or spiraling into the black hole in the Galactic center with unrivaled sensitivity and angular resolution as well as studies of young stellar objects and evolved stars. In order to cancel out the effect of atmospheric turbulence and to be able to see beyond dusty layers, it needs infrared wave-front sensors when operating with the unit telescopes. Therefore GRAVITY consists of the Beam Combiner Instrument (BCI) located in the VLTI laboratory and a wave-front sensor in each unit telescope Coude room, thus aptly named Coude Infrared Adaptive Optics (CIAO). This paper describes the CIAO design, assembly, integration and verification at the Paranal observatory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE