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27 July 2010 Conceptual design and performance of the multiconjugate adaptive optics module for the European Extremely Large Telescope
Emiliano Diolaiti, Jean-Marc Conan, Italo Foppiani, Enrico Marchetti, Andrea Baruffolo, Michele Bellazzini, Giovanni Bregoli, Christopher R. Butler, Paolo Ciliegi, Giuseppe Cosentino, Bernard Delabre, Matteo Lombini, Cyril Petit, Clélia Robert, Pierfrancesco Rossettini, Laura Schreiber, Raffaele Tomelleri, Valdemaro Biliotti, Sandro D'Odorico, Thierry Fusco, Norbert Hubin, Serge Meimon
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Abstract
The Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY (MAORY) for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) provides a corrected field of view of up to 2 arcmin diameter over the wavelength range 0.8-2.4 μm. It is expected to achieve a correction of high quality and uniformity with high sky coverage: with a seeing of 0.8 arcsec in the visible, the expected Strehl Ratio averaged over a 1 arcmin field is approximately 50% at 2.16 μm wavelength over 50% of the sky at the Galactic Pole. Wavefront correction is obtained by means of the E-ELT adaptive mirrors M4/M5 and of two post-focal deformable mirrors conjugated at 4km and 12.7km from the telescope pupil. Wavefront sensing is performed by 6 Sodium laser guide stars and by 3 natural guide stars, used to measure atmospheric and windshake tilt and to provide a reference for the focus and for the low-order aberrations induced by the Sodium layer. MAORY is located on the E-ELT Nasmyth platform and has a gravity invariant port, feeding the high angular resolution camera MICADO, and a lateral port for a detached instrument as the infrared spectrograph SIMPLE.
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Emiliano Diolaiti, Jean-Marc Conan, Italo Foppiani, Enrico Marchetti, Andrea Baruffolo, Michele Bellazzini, Giovanni Bregoli, Christopher R. Butler, Paolo Ciliegi, Giuseppe Cosentino, Bernard Delabre, Matteo Lombini, Cyril Petit, Clélia Robert, Pierfrancesco Rossettini, Laura Schreiber, Raffaele Tomelleri, Valdemaro Biliotti, Sandro D'Odorico, Thierry Fusco, Norbert Hubin, and Serge Meimon "Conceptual design and performance of the multiconjugate adaptive optics module for the European Extremely Large Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II, 77360R (27 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857634
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KEYWORDS
Adaptive optics

Point spread functions

Error analysis

Telescopes

Sodium

Stars

Mirrors

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