Maintenance and operation of the adaptive optics module for NICI, the high-contrast coronagraphic imager of GEMINI observatory

Hartung, Markus; Hayward, Tom; Chun, Mark; Kellerer, Aglae

doi:10.1117/12.858054

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“…The attempt to implement PSF-R for NICI with APETy [14] started at simulation level in 2011 and has been completed using on-sky wavefront sensor data.…”

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On-sky PSF reconstruction with APETy

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PSF reconstruction (PSF-R) for AO systems was pioneered by J.P. Veran in 1997 [1] and was successfully demonstrated at CFHT/PUEO. A recent example was presented in the case for the Keck telescope in 2012 [2]. Nevertheless, it has been a constant struggle since to implement these technique as observatory standard. APETy (A PSF Estimation Tool for Yorick) has been developed since 2009 and applied for PSF reconstruction for the Near Infrared Coronograph Imager (NICI) at the Gemini South Observatory based on a 85 element curvature AO system. Using on-sky wavefront sensor data, we estimate the seeing (r0) from deformable mirror commands and reconstruct diffraction limited images (52 mas resulution) with an accuracy of approximately 90% when compared to the science images. APETy is publically available via GitHub (https://github.com/dgratadour/APETy) and can be adapted to other systems. APETy development includes the PSF-R variation proposed by Gendron [3] which proved to be almost 4 times faster than the original approach.

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“…The attempt to implement PSF-R for NICI with APETy [14] started at simulation level in 2011 and has been completed using on-sky wavefront sensor data.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%