MAD status report

Enrico Marchetti; Roland Brast; Bernhard Delabre; Rob Donaldson; Enrico Fedrigo; Christoph Frank; Norbert N. Hubin; Johann Kolb; Miska Le Louarn; Jean-Louis Lizon; Sylvain Oberti; Roland Reiss; Joana Santos; Sebastien Tordo; Roberto Ragazzoni; Carmelo Arcidiacono; Andrea Baruffolo; Emiliano Diolaiti; Jacopo Farinato; Elise Vernet-Viard

doi:10.1117/12.551185

25 October 2004 MAD status report

Enrico Marchetti, Roland Brast, Bernhard Delabre, Rob Donaldson, Enrico Fedrigo, Christoph Frank, Norbert N. Hubin, Johann Kolb, Miska Le Louarn, Jean-Louis Lizon, Sylvain Oberti, Roland Reiss, Joana Santos, Sebastien Tordo, Roberto Ragazzoni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Andrea Baruffolo, Emiliano Diolaiti, Jacopo Farinato, Elise Vernet-Viard

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Proceedings Volume 5490, Advancements in Adaptive Optics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551185
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The European Southern Observatory together with external research Institutes is building a Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) to perform wide field of view adaptive optics correction. The aim of MAD is to demonstrate on the sky the feasibility of the MCAO technique and to evaluate all the critical aspects in building such kind of instrument in the framework of both the 2nd generation VLT instrumentation and the 100-m Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL). The MAD module will be installed at one of the VLT unit telescope in Paranal to perform on-sky observations. MAD is based on a two deformable mirrors correction system and on two multi-reference wavefront sensors capable to observe simultaneously some pre-selected configurations of Natural Guide Stars. MAD is expected to correct up to 2 arcmin field of view in K band. MAD has just started the integration phase which will be followed up by a long period of testing. In this paper we present the final design of MAD with a brief report about the status of the integration.

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Enrico Marchetti, Roland Brast, Bernhard Delabre, Rob Donaldson, Enrico Fedrigo, Christoph Frank, Norbert N. Hubin, Johann Kolb, Miska Le Louarn, Jean-Louis Lizon, Sylvain Oberti, Roland Reiss, Joana Santos, Sebastien Tordo, Roberto Ragazzoni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Andrea Baruffolo, Emiliano Diolaiti, Jacopo Farinato, and Elise Vernet-Viard "MAD status report", Proc. SPIE 5490, Advancements in Adaptive Optics, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551185

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