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Adaptive optics (AO) and ground-layer AO for Dome C: numerical simulation results

Carbillet, M. et al., 2010, EAS Publications Series, 40, 157 | View on ADS (2010EAS....40..157C) | Access via DOI

Abstract

We present the latest results of our on-going closed-loop “end-to-end” numerical adaptive optics (AO) simulations concerning both a standard-AO and a three-star ground-layer AO system for a near-infrared 2-m class telescope at Dome C, Antarctica. We demonstrate that Dome C is an ideal site for wide-field AO-aided astronomy, define in details the AO system(s) optimized for the median turbulence profile considered, and finally show that a 0.3 Strehl ratio and 200-mas-wide stable point-spread function is reached in band J on at least a 15^prime-diameter field.