no code implementations • 27 Jan 2021 • Davide Greggio, Simone di Filippo, Demetrio Magrin, Christian Schwab, Valentina Viotto, Lorenzo Busoni, Simone Esposito, Roberto Ragazzoni, Thierry Fusco, Neichel Benoit, Enrico Pinna, Francois Rigaut, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Maria Bergomi, Federico Biondi, Simonetta Chinellato, Jacopo Farinato, Luca Marafatto, Elisa Portaluri, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Daniele Vassallo
MAVIS (MCAO-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) is an instrument proposed for the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF), which is currently in the phase-A conceptual design study.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2021 • Simone di Filippo, Davide Greggio, Maria Bergomi, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Elisa Portaluri, Valentina Viotto, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Marco Dima, Roberto Ragazzoni, Pierre Janin-Potiron, Lauren Schatz, Benoit Neichel, Olivier Fauvarque, Thierry Fusco
The Ingot wavefront sensor is a novel pupil-plane wavefront sensor, specifically designed to cope with the elongation typical of the extended nature of the Laser Guide Star (LGS).
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2020 • Elisa Portaluri, Valentina Viotto, Roberto Ragazzoni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Maria Bergomi, Davide Greggio, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Simone di Filippo, Luca Marafatto, Marco Dima, Federico Biondi, Jacopo Farinato, Demetrio Magrin
The Ingot WFS, a Pyramid-like WFS, has been proposed as a relief to the LGS spot elongation.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2020 • Elisa Portaluri, Valentina Viotto, Roberto Ragazzoni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Maria Bergomi, Marco Dima, Davide Greggio, Jacopo Farinato, Demetrio Magrin
Deep observations of the Universe, usually as a part of sky surveys, are one of the symbols of the modern astronomy because they can allow big collaborations, exploiting multiple facilities and shared knowledge.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies