dr. norbert hubin opticon jra1 coordinator european southern observatory karl schwarzschild str. 2
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Contacts. Dr. Norbert Hubin OPTICON JRA1 Coordinator European Southern Observatory Karl Schwarzschild Str. 2 Garching, Germany Telephone: +49 89 320 06 517 E-mail: [email protected] Dr. John K. Davies OPTICON Project Scientist UK Astronomy Technology Centre, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dr. Norbert HubinOPTICON JRA1 CoordinatorEuropean Southern ObservatoryKarl Schwarzschild Str. 2Garching, GermanyTelephone: +49 89 320 06 517E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. John K. DaviesOPTICON Project ScientistUK Astronomy Technology Centre,Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJUnited KingdomTelephone: +44 (0)131668 8348E-mail: [email protected]: www.astro-opticon.org
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JRA-1 - Adaptive Optics
OPTICON is funded by the European Commission under Contract RII3-CT-2004-001566
JRA 1 gathers together expert European teams in the field of Adaptive Optics for astronomy. It has two objectives. 1) Develop the concept and designs for 2nd generation Adaptive Optics facilities (e.g Extreme Adaptive Optics for Planet Searching, Ground Layer and Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics) which by 2010-11 will equip existing 8-10 m telescopes such as the VLT, the LBT and the GTC. 2) Develop the key technologies necessary to maintain the competitiveness of our large astronomical facilities.
The enabling technologies JRA-1 has an aggressive R&D programme:
• 1m large Deformable Mirror (DM) & very thin glass shell demonstration
1.1m VLT Adaptive secondary(Microgate - ADS, Italy) equipped with 1170 actuators and an hexapod essential for the GLAO system using laser tomography.
• Multi-Conjugate AO for LBT:Ground Layer wavefront sensor design
• VLT Extreme AO for Planet search
•VLT Ground Layer & tomography AO
• Micro Deformable Mirror (MDM)60 electromagnetic actuator MDM (Patent)19 actuator electrostatic MDM
• High Order wavefront sensing exp.:
Thin Glass shell
OPTICON - The Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy
Participants:•European Southern
Observatory•INAF Arcetri•MPIA Heidelberg•INSU-LAOG and LAM•ONERA•NOVA•Univ. Durham
The development of this DM is the largest worldwide. It is an essential component for the VLT Extreme AO system and Ground Layer AO.
1370 piezo actuator Deformable Mirror
The 2nd generation AO Facilities
INSU ETH Zurich