Towards understanding interactions between the AO system and segment co-phasing with the vector-Zernike wavefront sensor on Keck

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Main Authors: Salama, Maïssa, Guthery, Charlotte, Chambouleyron, Vincent, Jensen-Clem, Rebecca, Wallace, J. Kent, Troy, Mitchell, Delorme, Jacques-Robert, Dillon, Daren, Echeverri, Daniel, Yeyuan, Xin, Hao, Wen, Xuan, Jovanovic, Nemanja, Mawet, Dimitri, Wizinowich, Peter L., Bowens-Rubin, Rachel
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author Salama, Maïssa
Guthery, Charlotte
Chambouleyron, Vincent
Jensen-Clem, Rebecca
Wallace, J. Kent
Troy, Mitchell
Delorme, Jacques-Robert
Dillon, Daren
Echeverri, Daniel
Yeyuan
Xin
Hao, Wen
Xuan
Jovanovic, Nemanja
Mawet, Dimitri
Wizinowich, Peter L.
Bowens-Rubin, Rachel
author_facet Salama, Maïssa
Guthery, Charlotte
Chambouleyron, Vincent
Jensen-Clem, Rebecca
Wallace, J. Kent
Troy, Mitchell
Delorme, Jacques-Robert
Dillon, Daren
Echeverri, Daniel
Yeyuan
Xin
Hao, Wen
Xuan
Jovanovic, Nemanja
Mawet, Dimitri
Wizinowich, Peter L.
Bowens-Rubin, Rachel
contents We extend our previous demonstration of the first on-sky primary mirror segment closed-loop control on Keck using a vector-Zernike wavefront sensor (vZWFS), which improved the Strehl ratio on the NIRC2 science camera by up to 10 percentage points. Segment co-phasing errors contribute to Keck contrast limits and will be necessary to correct for the segmented Extremely Large Telescopes and future space missions. The goal of the post-AO vZWFS on Keck is to monitor and correct segment co-phasing errors in parallel with science observations. The ZWFS is ideal for measuring phase discontinuities and is one of the most sensitive WFSs, but has limited dynamic range. The Keck vZWFS consists of a metasurface mask imposing two different phase shifts to orthogonal polarizations, split into two pupil images, extending its dynamic range. We report on the vZWFS closed-loop co-phasing performance and early work towards understanding the interactions between the AO system and segment phasing. We discuss a comparison of the AO performance when co-phasing by aligning segment edges, as is currently done at Keck, compared with aligning to the average phase over the segments, as is done by the vZWFS.
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spellingShingle Towards understanding interactions between the AO system and segment co-phasing with the vector-Zernike wavefront sensor on Keck
Salama, Maïssa
Guthery, Charlotte
Chambouleyron, Vincent
Jensen-Clem, Rebecca
Wallace, J. Kent
Troy, Mitchell
Delorme, Jacques-Robert
Dillon, Daren
Echeverri, Daniel
Yeyuan
Xin
Hao, Wen
Xuan
Jovanovic, Nemanja
Mawet, Dimitri
Wizinowich, Peter L.
Bowens-Rubin, Rachel
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
We extend our previous demonstration of the first on-sky primary mirror segment closed-loop control on Keck using a vector-Zernike wavefront sensor (vZWFS), which improved the Strehl ratio on the NIRC2 science camera by up to 10 percentage points. Segment co-phasing errors contribute to Keck contrast limits and will be necessary to correct for the segmented Extremely Large Telescopes and future space missions. The goal of the post-AO vZWFS on Keck is to monitor and correct segment co-phasing errors in parallel with science observations. The ZWFS is ideal for measuring phase discontinuities and is one of the most sensitive WFSs, but has limited dynamic range. The Keck vZWFS consists of a metasurface mask imposing two different phase shifts to orthogonal polarizations, split into two pupil images, extending its dynamic range. We report on the vZWFS closed-loop co-phasing performance and early work towards understanding the interactions between the AO system and segment phasing. We discuss a comparison of the AO performance when co-phasing by aligning segment edges, as is currently done at Keck, compared with aligning to the average phase over the segments, as is done by the vZWFS.
title Towards understanding interactions between the AO system and segment co-phasing with the vector-Zernike wavefront sensor on Keck
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16791