Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-02-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:837-843,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10160.x
A method for producing a laser guide star wavefront sensor for adaptive optics with reduced focal anisoplanatism is presented. A theoretical analysis and numerical simulations have been carried out and the results are presented. The technique, named SPLASH (Sky-Projected Laser Array Shack-Hartmann), is shown to suffer considerably less from focal anisoplanatism than a conventional laser guide star system. The method is potentially suitable for large telescope apertures (~8m), and possibly for extremely large telescopes.
Butterley Tim
Love Gordon D.
Morris James T.
Myers Richard M.
Wilson Richard W.
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