Using DARC in a multi-object AO bench and in a dome seeing instrument

Norman Sáez; Alistair Basden; Dani Guzmán; Nicolás Dubost; Amokrane Berdja

doi:10.1117/12.2055590

18 July 2014 Using DARC in a multi-object AO bench and in a dome seeing instrument

Norman Sáez, Alistair Basden, Dani Guzmán, Nicolás Dubost, Amokrane Berdja

Proceedings Volume 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III; 91521X (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055590
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Durham adaptive Optics Real Time Controller (DARC)¹ is a real-time system for astronomical adaptive optics systems originally developed at Durham University and in use for the CANARY instrument. One of its main strengths is to be a generic and high performance real-time controller running on an off-the-shelf Linux computer. We are using DARC for two different implementations: BEAGLE,² a Multi-Object AO (MOAO) bench system to experiment with novel tomographic reconstructors and LOTUCE2^,3 an in-dome turbulence instrument. We present the software architecture for each application, current benchmarks and lessons learned for current and future DARC developers.

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Norman Sáez, Alistair Basden, Dani Guzmán, Nicolás Dubost, and Amokrane Berdja "Using DARC in a multi-object AO bench and in a dome seeing instrument", Proc. SPIE 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, 91521X (18 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055590

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