With the increasing size of the ground based telescopes, the lines used to carry and distribute cryogenic gas or fluid to instruments need continuously to be...
Performance of satellite-to-ground communications link between ARTEMIS and the Optical Ground Station
The European Space Agency has built an optical ground station sited at the Observatorio del Teide operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. This...
Performance of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) high-resolution near-infrared multi-object fiber spectrograph
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) uses a dedicated 300-fiber, narrow-band near-infrared (1.51-1.7 μm), high resolution (R~22...
Performance of the first-light adaptive optics system of LBT by means of CAOS simulations
This presentation reports the numerical simulations we have done in order to evaluate the performance of the first-light AO system of LBT. The simulation tool...
Performance of the Fourier transform reconstructor for the European Extremely Large Telescope
The forthcoming Extremely Large Telescopes, and the new generation of Extreme Adaptive Optics systems, carry on a boost in the number of actuators that makes...
The chromatic behaviour of the IAC analyzer, commonly used at the German Vacuum Gregory-Coude telesope at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide (Canary Islands)...
Performance simulations for the conceptual design of the European Solar Telescope (EST)
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a European collaborative project promoted by the European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST) to build a high...
Performances of NIR VPHGs at cryogenic temperatures
We summarize the performances measured at room temperature and in cryogenic conditions of a set of NIR Volume Phase Holographic Gratings (VPHGs) which can then...