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Main Authors: Hurtado, Joel, Gerard, Benjamin, Laguna, Cesar, Sanchez, Dominic Francisco
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14256
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author Hurtado, Joel
Gerard, Benjamin
Laguna, Cesar
Sanchez, Dominic Francisco
author_facet Hurtado, Joel
Gerard, Benjamin
Laguna, Cesar
Sanchez, Dominic Francisco
contents REDWOODS on ShaneAO at Lick Observatory implements a second-stage, 3-sided reflective pyramid wavefront sensor (PWFS), which, under low-light conditions, offers an improved signal-to-noise ratio for deformable mirror commands to correct dynamic atmospheric aberrations. We modeled the REDWOODS limiting natural guide star magnitude. We also investigated performance tradeoffs between two PWFS modes that are available to REDWOODS, one with higher bandwidth error and another with higher aliasing error. We also implemented an experimental setup to image one of the REDWOODS PWFS masks.
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spellingShingle Jupyter simulations Using NGS Intensity with PyWFS for REDWOODS
Hurtado, Joel
Gerard, Benjamin
Laguna, Cesar
Sanchez, Dominic Francisco
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
REDWOODS on ShaneAO at Lick Observatory implements a second-stage, 3-sided reflective pyramid wavefront sensor (PWFS), which, under low-light conditions, offers an improved signal-to-noise ratio for deformable mirror commands to correct dynamic atmospheric aberrations. We modeled the REDWOODS limiting natural guide star magnitude. We also investigated performance tradeoffs between two PWFS modes that are available to REDWOODS, one with higher bandwidth error and another with higher aliasing error. We also implemented an experimental setup to image one of the REDWOODS PWFS masks.
title Jupyter simulations Using NGS Intensity with PyWFS for REDWOODS
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14256