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Properties of the Focal Stations of the Euro50 Mette Owner-Petersen, mette@astro.lu.se

Properties of the Focal Stations of the Euro50 Mette Owner-Petersen, mette@astro.lu.se Lund Observatory, Sweden. Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, 25-29 July 2005. I. Contents. Basic optical layout of the Euro50 Prime focus corrector

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Properties of the Focal Stations of the Euro50 Mette Owner-Petersen, mette@astro.lu.se

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  1. Properties of the Focal Stations of the Euro50 Mette Owner-Petersen,mette@astro.lu.se Lund Observatory, Sweden Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, 25-29 July 2005 I

  2. Contents • Basic optical layout of the Euro50 • Prime focus corrector • A brief reminder of AO properties & limitations • Focal stations of the Euro50 • The atmospheric dispersion compensator (ADC) • Optical properties of the corrected prime focus (seeing limited) • Optical properties of Nasmyth focus 1 (seeing limited) • Optical properties of Gregorian focus 1 (SCAO, GLAO) • Optical properties of Gregorian focus 2 (DCAO) • Optical properties of Nasmyth focus 2 (DCAO) • Mechanical properties of the focal stations

  3. 1 3 8 6 2 4 7 5 Basic Optical Layout of the Euro50 1 Segmented primary 2 Deformable secondary (DM1) 3 Beamsplitter 4 Intermediate focus (Gregorian focus 1) 5 Collimating mirror 6 Flat deformable mirror (DM2) 7 Focusing mirror 8 Final focus (Gregorian focus 2)

  4. 2 2 1 3 4 Prime Focus Corrector (Seeing Limited Mode) 1 Prime focus 2 Clamshell corrector 3 Achromatic doublet 4 Corrected focus NB: The corrector can be positioned and the corrected focus can be accessed without removing the secondary (DM1)

  5. AO Properties and Limitations A Brief Reminder • PSF properties • Peak Intensity (Strehl Ratio) • Resolution (FWHM) • Contrast (Background Level) PSF profile Observational Importance Strehl Ratio:Detection of faint objects FWHM:Resolving bright objects in crowded fields Contrast:Direct Exo-Planet observation

  6. Model of the Partially Corrected Long Exposure PSF General Valid for ELTs SR = exp( - 2Res ) (Strehl Ratio) Residual wavefront variance: 2Res Residual tip/tilt: αRes (FWHM) Power spectrum of residual fluctuations: Wres (Contrast)

  7. Primary Error Sources • Atmosphere • Telescope Vibrations under Wind Load Dominates for the Euro50 • Thermal Effects

  8. Secondary Error Sources Result: Only partial correction • Fitting Error (Limited spatial resolution of DM) • Aliasing Error (Discrete wavefront sampling) • Servolag Error (Delayed control of DM) • Detection Error (Measurement noise) • Anisoplanatic Error (Correction and measurement at different stellar angles) • Chromatic Error (Correction and measurement at different wavelengths)

  9. Different AO Modes • Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics (SCAO). Both NGS and LGS. One DM and one guide star -> High Strehl but small corrected field. • Ground Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO). NGS. The easy game. One DM and several guide stars -> Low Strehl but narrow FWHM over a large field. • Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO). Both NGS and LGS. Several DMs and several guide stars -> High Strehl and large corrected field. • Extreme Adaptive Optics (ExAO). NGS. The hard bargain One DM and one Guide Star. Complicated filtering in both image and pupil plane -> Extremely high contrast.

  10. SCAO versus MCAO

  11. Euro50 Overview

  12. Offner-like relay Nasmyth focus 1 Seeing limited ADC Nasmyth focus 2 DCAO Gregorian focus 1 SCAO, GLAO Gregorian focus 2 DCAO LGS Wavefront sensor Focal Stations of the Euro50

  13. The ADC (Preliminary Design) 1 Red ray 2 Blue ray 3 Intermediate cross-point 4 Telescope focal plane 5 Telescope pupil 6 Optical axis hd: Linear dispersion hs: Focus shift

  14. Linear Dispersion at the ORM Site. Z = 45o R: Linear dispersion dA: Diffraction diameter Conclusion: The ADC may not be needed for K-band operation of the Euro 50

  15. Corrected Prime Focus (Seeing Limited) Optical Properties

  16. Nasmyth Focus 1 (Seeing Limited) Optical Properties

  17. Gregorian Focus 1 (SCAO, GLAO) Optical Properties

  18. 60” Strehl color scale Gregorian Focus 1 (Strehl Maps @ 2.2m) SCAO GLAO: 5 Guide Stars in a Cross Infinite outer scale Infinite outer scale 20 m outer scale 20 m outer scale

  19. 4’ 1’ 10’ Infinite outer scale 1’ 10’ 4’ d 20 m outer scale Gregorian Focus 1 (GLAO PSFs @ 2.2m) Guide star configuration

  20. Gregorian Focus2 @ Nasmyth Focus 2 DCAO @ 2.2m Optical Properties Gregorian 2 Nasmyth 2

  21. Gregorian Focus 2 @ Nasmyth Focus 2 (Strehl Maps @ 2.2m) Guide star configuration Infinite outer scale 20 m outer scale

  22. Mechanical Properties Instrument volume Red arrow: Optical axis Black dot: Axial focus *Secondary not removed **Relative to Nasmyth platform ***Sep. of two opt. Axes: 2.29 m

  23. !! Warning !! Estimates of performance are overly optimistic • Wind effects are not accounted for. Must await results from integrated modeling. Will dominate over atmospheric effects. • Only the fitting error and the anisoplanatic error is accounted for. End

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