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16 July 2008 ASSIST: the test setup for the VLT AO facility
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ASSIST: The Adaptive Secondary Setup and Instrument STimulator is the test setup for the verification and calibration of three elements of the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility.; the Deformable Secondary Mirror (DSM) the AO system for MUSE and HAWK-I (GALACSI and GRAAL). In the DSM testing mode the DSM will be tested using both interferometry and fast wave front sensing. In full AO mode, ASSIST will allow testing of the AO systems under realistic atmospheric conditions and optically equivalent to the conditions on the telescope. ASSIST is nearing its final design review and in this paper we present the current optical and mechanical design of ASSIST. In this paper we highlight some of the specific aspects of ASSIST that we are developing for ASSIST.
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Remko Stuik, Robin Arsenault, Ralf Conzelmann, Atul Deep, Bernard Delabre, Pascal Hallibert, Laurent Jolissaint, Norbert Hubin, Sarah Kendrew, Pierre-Yves Madec, Frank Molster, Jerome Paufique, Evert Pauwels, Stefan Stroebele, and Emiel Wiegers "ASSIST: the test setup for the VLT AO facility", Proc. SPIE 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems, 70154F (16 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789225
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KEYWORDS
Adaptive optics

Calibration

Telescopes

Stars

Mirrors

Turbulence

Atmospheric optics

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