Bringing SOUL on sky
Abstract
The SOUL project is upgrading the 4 SCAO systems of LBT, pushing the current guide star limits of about 2 magnitudes fainter thanks to Electron Multiplied CCD detector. This improvement will open the NGS SCAO correction to a wider number of scientific cases from high contrast imaging in the visible to extra-galactic source in the NIR. The SOUL systems are today the unique case where pyramid WFS, adaptive secondary and EMCCD are used together. This makes SOUL a pathfinder for most of the ELT SCAO systems like the one of GMT, MICADO and HARMONI of E-ELT, where the same key technologies will be employed. Today we have 3 SOUL systems installed on the telescope in commissioning phase. The 4th system will be installed in a few months. We will present here the results achieved during daytime testing and commissioning nights up to the present date.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2101.07091
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2101.07091
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv210107091P
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. AO4ELT6 proceedings