SOUL: the Single conjugated adaptive Optics Upgrade for LBT

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We present here SOUL: the Single conjugated adaptive Optics Upgrade for LBT. Soul will upgrade the wavefront sensors replacing the existing CCD detector with an EMCCD camera and the rest of the system in order to enable the closed loop operations at a faster cycle rate and with higher number of slopes. Thanks to reduced noise, higher number of pixel and framerate, we expect a gain (for a given SR) around 1.5-2 magnitudes at all wavelengths in the range 7.5 <mR <18. The correction at short wavelength will be greatly improved (SR>70% in I-band and 0.6asec seeing) and the sky coverage will be multiplied by a factor 5 at all galactic latitudes. Upgrading the SCAO systems at all the 4 focal stations, SOUL will provide these benefits in 2017 to the LBTI interferometer and in 2018 to the 2 LUCI NIR spectro-imagers. In the same year the SOUL correction will be exploited also by the new generation of LBT instruments: V-SHARK, SHARK-NIR and iLocater.

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1. E. Pinna ; S. Esposito ; P. Hinz ; G. Agapito ; M. Bonaglia ; A. Puglisi ; M. Xompero ; A. Riccardi ; R. Briguglio ; C. Arcidiacono ; L. Carbonaro ; L. Fini ; M. Montoya and O. Durney " SOUL: the Single conjugated adaptive Optics Upgrade for LBT ", Proc. SPIE 9909, Adaptive Optics Systems V, 99093V (July 27, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2234444; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2234444
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3. 10.1117/12.2234444
4. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622050
5. http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622050
6. ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS V

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Pyramid WFS

Adaptive Secondary

SCAO

eXAO

Large Binocular Telescope

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/622050
Date	27 July 2016
Creators	Pinna, E., Esposito, S., Hinz, P., Agapito, G., Bonaglia, M., Puglisi, A., Xompero, M., Riccardi, A., Briguglio, R., Arcidiacono, C., Carbonaro, L., Fini, L., Montoya, M., Durney, O.
Contributors	Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), Univ. of Arizona (United States), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), Univ. of Arizona (United States), Univ. of Arizona (United States)
Publisher	SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article
Rights	© 2016 SPIE
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