Lessons learned from developing turbulence profilers for telescopes' instruments. (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Guesalaga, Andrés; Neichel, Benoit; Béchet, Clémentine; Valenzuela, Javier
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 595 (2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/595/1/012013
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: This article presents the results obtained during three years of developing turbulence profilers for two different telescopes; namely Gemini South and the future Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). The profilers are embedded in a facility instrument that provides the data from the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors which feed the SLODAR approach used to generate the profiles. The main results focused on two unsolved problems: dealing with the dome seeing and the effect of the atmosphere outer scale on the accuracy of the profilers.