The adaptive optics simulation and improvement plan of CRAO attached to the 1.3m Araki Telescope

Kenta Sakabe; Yuji Ikeda; Shin Oya; Taiki Bessho; Reiki Kojima; Makoto Komaki; Taruta Jun; Hideyo Kawakita

doi:10.1117/12.2628712

29 August 2022 The adaptive optics simulation and improvement plan of CRAO attached to the 1.3m Araki Telescope

Kenta Sakabe, Yuji Ikeda, Shin Oya, Taiki Bessho, Reiki Kojima, Makoto Komaki, Taruta Jun, Hideyo Kawakita

Proceedings Volume 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII; 121853N (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628712
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Compact refractive adaptive optics (CRAO) is a visible compact adaptive optics (AO) system optimized for small telescopes. It was mounted on the 1.3 m Araki telescope of Koyama Astronomical Observatory (KAO) in Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan. CRAO aims to improve the natural seeing 3” to 0.8” at 500 nm at the KAO site. Thus, it needs a large format and highly frequent camera for wide field survey (WFS) and a largely segmented depth map (DM) because the natural seeing ∼3” at the KAO site is especially poor for astronomical observations. To improve the performance of CRAO with a new WFS and DM, we searched for the optimal AO parameters (the number of WFS subapertures (N_WFS), the number of DM actuators (N_DM), and the loop frequency (f_L) with two AO simulators using yao and COMPASS. Consequently, we found that N_WFS > 12×12, N_DM > 80, and f_L > 800 Hz are necessary to achieve the full width at half maximum (FWHM) < 0.8” for point spread function (PSF) under the KAO site’s atmospheric conditions. Finally, we calculated the limiting magnitude (V_lim) with commercially available sensors for WFS and DMs. By combining ORCA-Lightning (Hamamatsu Photonics) and DM97-15 (ALPAO), a deeper limiting magnitude (V_lim ∼ 4.4) can be achieved, even with a 1 m-class telescope.

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Kenta Sakabe, Yuji Ikeda, Shin Oya, Taiki Bessho, Reiki Kojima, Makoto Komaki, Taruta Jun, and Hideyo Kawakita "The adaptive optics simulation and improvement plan of CRAO attached to the 1.3m Araki Telescope", Proc. SPIE 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 121853N (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628712

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