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Multi-object adaptive optics on-sky results with Raven

O. Lardière, D. Andersen, C. Blain, C. Bradley, D. Gamroth, K. Jackson, P. Lach, R. Nash, K. Venn, J.-P. Véran, C. M. Correia, S. Oya, Y. Hayano, H. Terada, Y. Ono, M. Akiyama

Abstract
Raven is a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) technical and science demonstrator which had its first light at the Subaru telescope on May 13-14, 2014. Raven was built and tested at the University of Victoria AO Lab before shipping to Hawai`i. Raven includes three open loop wavefront sensors (WFSs), a central laser guide star WFS, and two independent science channels feeding light to the Subaru IRCS spectrograph. Raven supports different kinds of AO correction: SCAO, open-loop GLAO and MOAO. The MOAO mode can use different tomographic reconstructors, such as Learn-and-Apply or a model-based reconstructor. This paper presents the latest results obtained in the lab, which are consistent with simulated performance, as well as preliminary on-sky results, including echelle spectra from IRCS. Ensquared energy obtained on sky in 140mas slit is 17%, 30% and 41% for GLAO, MOAO and SCAO respectively. This result confirms that MOAO can provide a level of correction in between GLAO and SCAO, in any direction of the field of regard, regardless of the science target brightness. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Adaptive Optics Systems IV
(Eds.) E. Marchetti, L. M. Close, J.-P. Véran

SPIE
Vol. 9148,
2014

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