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First light of the LINC-NIRVANA Pathfinder experiment
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Paper Abstract

The LINC-NIRVANA Pathfinder experiment is a test-bed to verify a very complex sub-system: the Ground-layer Wavefront Sensor, or GWS. Pathfinder will test the GWS in its final working environment and demonstrate on-sky the performance achievable with a multiple natural guide star, ground-layer adaptive optics system with a very wide FoV. The GWS uses up to 12 natural guide stars within a 2.8'-6' annular field of view and drives the LBT adaptive secondary mirror to correct the lower layers of atmospheric turbulence. This paper will trace the path of the instrument on its way to First Light on-sky in November 2013, from its installation on the telescope to the calibrations to its final operation, focusing in particular on opto-mechanical and software aspects and how they lead to the main achieved results.

Paper Details

Date Published: 21 July 2014
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 91482Y (21 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055533
Show Author Affiliations
M. Bergomi, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
V. Viotto, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
C. Arcidiacono, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (Italy)
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)
L. Marafatto, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
Univ. degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
J. Farinato, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
H. Baumeister, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
T. Bertram, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
J. Berwein, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
F. Briegel, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
A. Conrad, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
F. Kittman, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
D. Kopon, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
R. Hofferbert, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
D. Magrin, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
K. K. Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
A. Puglisi, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)
M. Xompero, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)
R. Briguglio, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)
F. Quiros-Pacheco, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)
T. M. Herbst, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany)
R. Ragazzoni, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9148:
Adaptive Optics Systems IV
Enrico Marchetti; Laird M. Close; Jean-Pierre Véran, Editor(s)

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