Alignment and preliminary outcomes of an ELT-size instrument to a very large telescope: LINC-NIRVANA at LBT
Date Issued
2018
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McGurk, R.
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Baumeister, H.
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Bertram, T.
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Berwein, J.
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Bizenberger, P.
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Briegel, F.
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Kittman, F.
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Conrad, A.
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Herbst, T. M.
Abstract
LINC-NIRVANA (LN) is a high resolution, near infrared imager that uses a multiple field-of-view, layer-oriented, multi-conjugate AO system, consisting of four multi-pyramid wavefront sensors (two for each arm of the Large Binocular Telescope, each conjugated to a different altitude). The system employs up to 40 star probes, looking at up to 20 natural guide stars simultaneously. Its final goal is to perform Fizeau interferometric imaging, thereby achieving ELT-like spatial resolution (22.8 m baseline resolution). For this reason, LN is also equipped with a fringe tracker, a beam combiner and a NIR science camera, for a total of more than 250 optical components and an overall size of approximately 6x4x4.5 meters. This paper describes the tradeoffs evaluated in order to achieve the alignment of the system to the telescope. We note that LN is comparable in size to planned ELT instrumentation. The impact of such alignment strategies will be compared and the selected procedure, where the LBT telescope is, in fact, aligned to the instrument, will be described. Furthermore, results coming from early night-time commissioning of the system will be presented.
Coverage
Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes V (AO4ELT5)
Start page
1808.00399
Conferenece
Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes V (AO4ELT5)
Conferenece place
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Conferenece date
25-30 June, 2017
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2018arXiv180800399B
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open.access
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