Unique Antarctic Atmosphere: Implications for Adaptive Optics

The turbulence structure of the atmosphere is the primary limitation to adaptive optics system performance on extremely large telescopes — driving current world-wide site testing campaigns. The potential for adaptive optics correction on extremely large telescopes located at Dome C station on the...

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Main Authors: Lawrence, Jon S., Ashley, Michael C. B., Burton, Michael G., Lloyd, James P., Storey, John W. V.
Other Authors: Brandner, Wolfgang, Kasper, Markus E.
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Springer 2005
Subjects:
Adaptive Optic
Error Budget
Large Telescope
Adaptive Optic System
Strehl Ratio
Antarc*
Antarctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/10828557_19
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Summary:The turbulence structure of the atmosphere is the primary limitation to adaptive optics system performance on extremely large telescopes — driving current world-wide site testing campaigns. The potential for adaptive optics correction on extremely large telescopes located at Dome C station on the Antarctic plateau is investigated here. Due to the unique atmospheric characteristics of this site it is found that a natural guide star adaptive optics system with a single deformable mirror should outperform a multi-conjugate multi-laser guide star system at a mid-latitude site. © 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. First Online 11 November 2005.

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