Telescope Alignment and Wavefront Sensing · ZERNIKES [ nm] CALIBRATION px contours in nm 9.907 m...

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CHARA Collaboration Year-Seven Science Review Telescope Alignment and Wavefront Sensing Laszlo Sturmann Atlanta 2011

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CHARA Collaboration Year-Seven Science Review

Telescope Alignment and Wavefront SensingLaszlo Sturmann

Atlanta 2011

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• 2001-2010 Wavefront is computed from its Laplacian (Roddier)

• 2010 Wavefront is computed from its gradient (Shack-Hartmann Sensor)

Wavefront Evaluation at CHARA

ef

FrontSurfer

not for alignment

better for alignment

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Optical Setup

25 mm eyepiece

reticle

LED

projector

beam splitterfocal plane

green filter

40 mm collimator

WFS

OKO Standard Config. #1

Hexagonal array

127 lenses,0.3 mm pitch

F=18 mm.

CCD

FrontSurfer

Wavefront expanded into Zernike polynomials

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Eye Video camera

collimator

eyepiece

reticle

projector

TAS interface

pupil 3.9 mm

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9/13/2010

PINHOLE SOURCE, TAS OBJECTIVE

31

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PINHOLE SOURCE, TAS COMPLETE

50x452ms EXPOSURE OF VEGA

nm

nm

152VP

17RMS

95.0Strehl

ZERNIKES [nm]

nm

nm

196VP

22RMS

92.0Strehl

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TAS

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nm

237VP

27RMS

89.0Strehl

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contours in nm

E1 9/28/2010

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Z

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nm

558VP

78RMS

35.0Strehl

1000 x 10ms exposures of Vega

1600 nm 2200 nm540 nm

WAVEFRONT MAP

89.0Strehl 94.0Strehl

ZERNIKES [nm]

contours in nm

CALIBRATION px

m907.9

m922.9

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E2 9/17/2010

nm

nm

606VP

95RMS

14.0Strehl

1000 x 10ms exposures of Vega

1600 nm 2200 nm540 nm

WAVEFRONT MAP

82.0Strehl 90.0Strehl

ZERNIKES [nm]

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166

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contours in nm

S1 9/23/2010

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nm

1211VP

231RMS

02.0Strehl

1000 x 10ms exposures of Vega

1600 nm 2200 nm540 nm

WAVEFRONT MAP

26.0Strehl 52.0Strehl

ZERNIKES [nm]

contours in nm

contours in nm

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re-center star by tilting

the telescope

WFS :

comaZZ2

8

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7

115 ,..., ZZ

tilt M2N

astZZ2

6

2

5

Y

tilt M1N re-center star by tilting

M2

focus

center star in WFSTWEAKING ALGORITHM

BASED ON SIMULATIONS

Y

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A

B

C

M2

DIAL INDICATOR

ACTUATOR

ORTHOGONAL AZ-EL ADJUSTMENT AT M2 BUT NOT AT M1

EL

AZ

SOFTWARE

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AST COMA TREFOIL

Z4

Z5

Z6

Z7

Z8

Z9

Z10

Z11

min1

5Z

6Z

7Z

8Z

9Z

10Z

B

A

PUPIL ROTATES WITH TIME

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02-03-2011 02-12-2011 W1

P-V=1340 nm

RMS=270 nm

P-V=318 nm

RMS=50 nm

1 arcsec1 arcsec

540 nm 540 nm

ASYMMETRIC PUPIL

02/03/11

[nm]

02/12/11

[nm]

540 27

570 145

-175 -41

196 -40

5Z

6Z

7Z

8Z

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M3

W1 2/12/11

Nikon D80 20s

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MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

M1 TILT M2 TILT INCIDENT BEAM

1 2

2

x

y

x y

z

)0,,( 11 vu

),,0( 222 wvu

11

2

2

SOLUTION 1 SOLUTION 2

x

z

y

TWO SOLUTIONS AT A GIVEN

M1,M2 LATERAL

DISPLACEMENT

1

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WFS

FUTURE PLANS:

WHAT IS THIS?

FOCUS INACCESSIBLE

TESTING M1 IN SITU

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CCD CAMERA

FINDING THE VERTEX OF M1

M1 is F/2.5

VERY SENSITIVE TO MISALIGNMENT

COMA

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SIMULATED PRIME FOCUS IMAGES

OFF-AXIS ON-AXIS

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COMA FREE TILTING OF M2

SPHERICAL BEARING

AT THE FOCAL POINT

M2ACTUATORS

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ODDS & ENDS

• COUDE-BOX COVER

O u t[1 1 2 ]=

15604 15606 15608 15610 15612 1561410

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JD 2440000.5

E1

OUTSIDE

Temperature C°

• HUMIDITY-TEMPERATURE

SENSORS IN THE DOMES

6h