Active and adaptive optics for the Carlina Hypertelescope
Technology roadmap for future interferometric facilities, Proceedings of the European Interferometry Initiative Workshop organized in the context of the 2005 Join European and National Astronomy Meeting "Distant Worlds", 6 - 8 July 2005, Liège University, Institute of Astrophysics, Edited by J. Surdej, D. Caro, and A. Detal
LISE-Collège de France, Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France
LISE-Collège de France, Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France
LISE-Collège de France, Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France
LISE-Collège de France, Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France
Abstract
We describe a wave sensing method developed for the diluted aperture of the Carlina hypertelescope and other instruments having non-monolithic mirrors. Carlina is configured like a diluted version of the Arecibo radio-telescope. The diluted primary mirror is made of fixed co-spherical segments widely spaced with respect to their size. Above this diluted mirror a helium balloon carries a gondola containing the focal optics and detector. Following the first fringes obtained on Vega with a prototype, we develop active and adaptive optics expected to respectively coherence and phase several tens of mirrors.