Advances in optical/infrared interferometry

F Eisenhauer, JD Monnier… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
After decades of fast-paced technical advances, optical/infrared (O/IR) interferometry has
seen a revolution in recent years:▪ The GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope …

Ground-based adaptive optics coronagraphic performance under closed-loop predictive control

JR Males, O Guyon - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The discovery of the exoplanet Proxima b highlights the potential for the coming generation
of giant segmented mirror telescopes (GSMTs) to characterize terrestrial—potentially …

On-sky results for adaptive optics control with data-driven models on low-order modes

B Sinquin, L Prengère, C Kulcsár… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dedicated tip–tilt loops are commonly implemented on adaptive optics (AO) systems. In
addition, a number of recent high-performance systems feature tip–tilt controllers that are …

Towards realistic modelling of the astrometric capabilities of MCAO systems: detecting an intermediate-mass black hole with MAVIS

S Monty, F Rigaut, R McDermid… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Accurate astrometry is a key deliverable for the next generation of multiconjugate adaptive
optics (MCAO) systems. The MCAO-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph (MAVIS) is …

Vibrations in AO control: a short analysis of on-sky data around the world

C Kulcsár, G Sivo, HF Raynaud… - … Optics Systems III, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present in this paper an analysis of several tip-tilt on-sky data registered on adaptive
optics systems installed on different telescopes (Gemini South, William Herschel Telescope …

Vibration identification based on Levenberg–Marquardt optimization for mitigation in adaptive optics systems

K Yang, P Yang, S Chen, S Wang, L Wen, L Dong… - Applied …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
When high performance is expected, vibrations are becoming a burning issue in adaptive
optics systems. For mitigation of these vibrations, in this paper, we propose a method to …

Disturbance modelling for minimum variance control in adaptive optics systems using wavefront sensor sampled-data

M Coronel, R Carvajal, P Escárate, JC Agüero - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Modern large telescopes are built based on the effectiveness of adaptive optics systems in
mitigating the detrimental effects of wavefront distortions on astronomical images. In …

Tip-tilt modelling and control for GeMS: a performance comparison of identification techniques

R Juvenal, C Kulcsar, HF Raynaud… - Adaptive Optics for …, 2015 - escholarship.org
Perturbation modelling and vibration compensation are key issues to reach better
performance in adaptive optics systems for VLTs and future ELTs. In this context, an LQG …

Automatic disturbance identification for linear quadratic Gaussian control in adaptive optics

J Wang, Y Guo, L Kong, L Zhang, N Gu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control is an appealing control strategy to mitigate
disturbances in adaptive optics (AO) systems. The key of this method is to quickly and …

Tip-tilt disturbance model identification based on non-linear least squares fitting for Linear Quadratic Gaussian control

K Yang, P Yang, S Wang, L Dong, B Xu - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose a method to identify tip-tilt disturbance model for Linear Quadratic Gaussian
control. This identification method based on Levenberg–Marquardt method conducts with a …