Reference optical turbulence and wind profiles for single conjugate and extreme adaptive optics

Farley, OJD

doi:10.1093/mnras/stac2880

Reference optical turbulence and wind profiles for single conjugate and extreme adaptive optics

Farley, OJD

Authors

Ollie Farley o.j.d.farley@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate

Abstract

We present a simple method of extracting a small number of reference optical turbulence and wind profiles from a large data set for single conjugate and extreme adaptive optics (AO) simulations. These reference profiles can be used in slow end-to-end AO simulations to represent the variability of the atmosphere. The method is based on the assumption that performance for these systems is correlated with integrated atmospheric parameters r0, θ0, and τ0. Profiles are selected from a large data set that conforms concurrently to the distributions of these parameters, and hence represents the variability of the atmosphere as seen by the AO system. We also extend the equivalent layers method of profile compression to include wind profiles. The method is applied to stereo-SCIDAR data from ESO Paranal to extract five turbulence and wind profiles that cover a broad range in atmospheric variability, and we show using analytical AO simulation that this correlates to the equivalent range of AO-corrected Strehl ratios.

Citation

Farley, O. (2022). Reference optical turbulence and wind profiles for single conjugate and extreme adaptive optics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2), 2966-2971. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2880

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Oct 3, 2022
Online Publication Date	Oct 7, 2022
Publication Date	2022-12
Deposit Date	Oct 26, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Oct 27, 2022
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN	0035-8711
Electronic ISSN	1365-2966
Publisher	Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	517
Issue	2
Pages	2966-2971
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2880

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