First on-sky validation of full LQG control with vibration mitigation on the CANARY MOAO pathfinder

Gaetano Sivo (1) , Caroline Kulcsár (1) , Jean-Marc Conan (2) , Henri-François Raynaud (1) , Eric Gendron (3) , Alastair Basden , Fabrice Vidal (3) , Tim Morris , Serge Meimon (2) , Cyril Petit (2) , Damien Gratadour (3) , Olivier Martin (3) , Zoltan Hubert (3) , Gérard Rousset (3) , Nigel Dipper , Gordon Talbot , Eddy Younger , Richard M. Myers (4)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Spim
2 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Châtillon]
3 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
4 Department of Physics [Durham University]

We present in this paper the very first on-sky results of full Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) LQG control (i.e. all modes, with coupling, controlled with an LQG regulator), obtained in Spring 2013 on the CANARY demonstrator at the William Herschel Telescope (La Palma, Spain). The MOAO on-sky pathfinder CANARY features two AO configurations that have both been tested: single-conjugated AO and multi-object AO with NGS and NGS+LGS, together with vibration mitigation on tip and tilt modes. The successful MOAO results are presented and shortly analyzed in terms of performance and tuning.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Automatic; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Optics / Photonic

Gaetano Sivo, Caroline Kulcsár, Jean-Marc Conan, Henri-François Raynaud, Eric Gendron, et al.. First on-sky validation of full LQG control with vibration mitigation on the CANARY MOAO pathfinder. Third International Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, 2013, Florence, Italy. ⟨10.12839/AO4ELT3.13353⟩. ⟨hal-01722833⟩