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Efficient asterism selection for wide field adaptive optics systems with TIPTOP

Fabio Rossi*, Guido Agapito, Cédric Plantet, Benoît Neichel, François Rigaut

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Abstract

Wide Field Adaptive Optics (WFAO) systems play a pivotal role in enhancing the imaging and spectroscopic capabilities of astronomical telescopes. In the context of MCAO, with MAVIS (Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) as a representative example, the careful selection of an appropriate NGS (Natural Guide Star) asterism, consisting of NGSs within the technical field of view (FoV) of the adaptive optics system is crucial. We present our solution to the problem, which was developed as an addition to the TIPTOP simulation framework. Since our goal is to provide astronomers an effective tool for observation planning, we did focus on the performance of our implementation, which greatly benefits from GPU availability, to compute the result within seconds.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdaptive Optics Systems IX
EditorsKathryn J. Jackson, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510675179
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventAdaptive Optics Systems IX 2024 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 16 Jun 202422 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume13097
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceAdaptive Optics Systems IX 2024
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period16/06/2422/06/24

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