Status of the VLT Nasmyth adaptive optics system (NAOS)

Gerard Rousset; Francois Lacombe; Pascal Puget; Eric Gendron; Robin Arsenault; Pierre Y. Kern; Didier Rabaud; Pierre-Yves Madec; Norbert N. Hubin; Gerard Zins; Eric Stadler; Julien Charton; Pierre Gigan; Philippe Feautrier

doi:10.1117/12.390304

7 July 2000 Status of the VLT Nasmyth adaptive optics system (NAOS)

Gerard Rousset, Francois Lacombe, Pascal Puget, Eric Gendron, Robin Arsenault, Pierre Y. Kern, Didier Rabaud, Pierre-Yves Madec, Norbert N. Hubin, Gerard Zins, Eric Stadler, Julien Charton, Pierre Gigan, Philippe Feautrier

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Proceedings Volume 4007, Adaptive Optical Systems Technology; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390304
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

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NAOS is the adaptive optics system to be installed at one of the Nasmyth focus of the VLT. It was designed and manufactured by a French Consortium to provide compensated images to the high angular resolution IR spectro-imaging camera (CONICA) in the 1 to 5 micrometer spectral range. For bright sources, NAOS will achieve a Strehl ratio of 70% under average seeing conditions. It is equipped with a 185 actuator deformable mirror, a tip/tilt mirror and two wavefront sensors, one in the visible and one in the near IR. All the components of NAOS have been delivered and the integration phase is in progress since the beginning of 2000. After extensive tests and performance verifications in France, the system will be shipped to Chile by the end of 2000. The first light at the VLT is foreseen in the beginning of 2001.

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Gerard Rousset, Francois Lacombe, Pascal Puget, Eric Gendron, Robin Arsenault, Pierre Y. Kern, Didier Rabaud, Pierre-Yves Madec, Norbert N. Hubin, Gerard Zins, Eric Stadler, Julien Charton, Pierre Gigan, and Philippe Feautrier "Status of the VLT Nasmyth adaptive optics system (NAOS)", Proc. SPIE 4007, Adaptive Optical Systems Technology, (7 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390304

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