Adaptive Optics at the European Solar Telescope: status and future developments

Femenía-Castella, Bruno; Núñez Cagigal, Miguel; Barreto Cabrera, Mary; Belío-Asin, Marta; Bienes, Jonai; Bonaque González, Sergio; Collados, Manuel; Cózar-Castellano, Juan; Chulani, Haresh; Feijoo Amoedo, Noelia; González Cava, José M.; Martín Hernando, Yolanda; Mato, Angel; Montilla, Iciar; Montoya, Luz M.; Padilla, Cristina; Quintero Nehrkorn, Jorge; Quintero Noda, Carlos; Rodríguez Delgado, Horacio; Sánchez-Capuchino, Jorge; Soler Trujillo, Mahy; Vaz-Cedillo, Jacinto J.; Vega Reyes, Nauzet
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Adaptive Optics Systems VIII

Fecha de publicación:
8
2022
Número de autores
23
Número de autores del IAC
22
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a 4.2-m telescope which has been redesigned with a fully integrated Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) into the optical path right after the EST primary mirror. The current baseline configuration considers four altitude Deformable Mirrors (DM) conjugated to 5, 9, 12 and 20 km above the telescope entrance pupil and an Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM) conjugated to the entrance pupil. The wavefront sensing will be performed by a set of correlation-based Shack Hartmann wavefront sensors (WFS) combining an on-axis High-Order WFS (HOWFS) to be used either in Single Conjugate AO (SCAO) to drive the ASM as well as operating simultaneously with a Multi-Directional WFS (MDWFS) to drive the MCAO. Beyond the current baseline configuration, different alternatives are currently being investigated both in the wavefront sensing strategy by evolving from a HOWFS+MDWFS into possibly a single High Order Multi Directional WFS (HOMDWFS) and/or wavefront sensors operating at different observing bands.