Daytime turbulence profiling for EST and its impact in the solar MCAO system design

J. Marco de la Rosa; L. Montoya; M. Collados; I. Montilla; N. Vega Reyes

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27 July 2016 Daytime turbulence profiling for EST and its impact in the solar MCAO system design

J. Marco de la Rosa, L. Montoya, M. Collados, I. Montilla, N. Vega Reyes

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Proceedings Volume 9909, Adaptive Optics Systems V; 99096X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229471
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a 4-meter facility to be built in Canary Islands in the near future. Extensive daytime turbulence observation campaigns with the long baseline SHABAR instrument has been carried out in the two candidate sites from 2011 up to the end of 2014. The collected data together with nighttime turbulence data allow the site characterization and the computation of average turbulence profiles. These profiles can be used to feed numerical simulations in order to take important design decisions for the multiconjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) system in the telescope. This paper describes the main tasks developed in this context up to date.

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J. Marco de la Rosa, L. Montoya, M. Collados, I. Montilla, and N. Vega Reyes "Daytime turbulence profiling for EST and its impact in the solar MCAO system design", Proc. SPIE 9909, Adaptive Optics Systems V, 99096X (27 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229471

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