Testing P-REx on VLTI data

Saavidra Perera; Jörg-Uwe Pott; Jullien Woillez; Martin Kulas; Wolfgang Brandner; Sylvestre Lacour; Felix Widmann; Steve Ertel; Amali Vaz

doi:10.1117/12.2560105

13 December 2020 Testing P-REx on VLTI data

Saavidra Perera, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Jullien Woillez, Martin Kulas, Wolfgang Brandner, Sylvestre Lacour, Felix Widmann, Steve Ertel, Amali Vaz

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Proceedings Volume 11446, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII; 114460J (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560105
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

In VIS/IR interferometry the presence of the turbulent atmosphere induces piston drifts, resulting in the optical path difference (OPD) between each telescope to fluctuate. Typically, this is compensated for by employing a fringe tracker. However, the fundamental need for a fringe tracker effectively limits the sensitivity and sky coverage. Previously, a novel method, the Piston Reconstruction Experiment (P-REx), showed how AO data can be used to estimate the piston drift over individual telescopes in order to stabilise the fringes over short timescales and extend the integration time of the fringe tracker. The principle idea behind this method is that the piston drift is simply the product of the wind velocity and the tip and tilt of the atmosphere. In this paper, new developments in the method for estimating the wind velocity will be presented, as well as comparisons between the P-REx OPD estimates obtained from the VLTI’s CIAO WFS data and GRAVITY fringe tracking data.

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Saavidra Perera, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Jullien Woillez, Martin Kulas, Wolfgang Brandner, Sylvestre Lacour, Felix Widmann, Steve Ertel, and Amali Vaz "Testing P-REx on VLTI data", Proc. SPIE 11446, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII, 114460J (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560105

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