ALIOLI: Adaptive and Lucky Imaging Optics Lightweight Instrument

TL;DR

ALIOLI is a compact, lightweight adaptive optics instrument designed for small to medium telescopes, combining deformable mirror, wavefront sensor, and lucky imaging camera, intended for on-sky testing and improved efficiency.

Contribution

The paper introduces ALIOLI, a portable and efficient adaptive optics system that condenses previous designs for easy integration on 1-2m telescopes.

Findings

Successful design of a lightweight AO instrument for small telescopes

Implementation at the 1.5m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez planned

Potential for on-sky AO testing and development

Abstract

As a consequence of the evolution in the design and of the modularity of its components, AOLI for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT 4.2m) is much smaller and more efficient than its previous designs. This success has leaded us to plan to condense it even more to get a portable and easy to integrate system, ALIOLI (Adaptive and Lucky Imaging Optics Lightweight Instrument). It consists of a DM+WFS module with a lucky imaging science camera attached. ALIOLI is an AO instrument for the 1-2m class telescopes which will also be used as on-sky testbench for AO developments. Here we describe the setup to be installed at the 1.5m Telescopio Carlos S\'anchez (TCS) at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Canary Islands).