Mechanical design overview for the main structure of MAORY/MORFEO

Vincenzo De Caprio; Vincenzo Cianniello; Christian Eredia; Domenico D'Auria; Enrico Cascone; Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli; Matteo Aliverti; Giorgio Pariani; Marco Riva; Jacopo Farinato; Demetrio Magrin; Luca Marafatto; Gabriele Rodeghiero; Simonetta Chinellato; Matteo Munari; Ivan Di Antonio; Gianluca Di Rico; Paolo Ciliegi

doi:10.1117/12.2628893

29 August 2022 Mechanical design overview for the main structure of MAORY/MORFEO

Vincenzo De Caprio, Vincenzo Cianniello, Christian Eredia, Domenico D'Auria, Enrico Cascone, Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli, Matteo Aliverti, Giorgio Pariani, Marco Riva, Jacopo Farinato, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Simonetta Chinellato, Matteo Munari, Ivan Di Antonio, Gianluca Di Rico, Paolo Ciliegi

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Proceedings Volume 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 121842X (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628893
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Formerly known as MAORY [1][2][3], “MORFEO” (Multiconjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations) is a post-focal adaptive optics module for the ELT designed to help compensate for distortions caused by turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere that shall provide two exit ports: one for MICADO and one for a second instrument. This module, able to compensate the wave-front disturbances affecting the scientific observations, will be installed on the Nasmyth platform of the ELT telescope at the straight-through focus, and shall re-image the telescope focal plane to MICADO (the first light imager of the ELT) and in a second instrument port. In this paper we give a general overview of the mechanical design for MORFEO Main Structure (MMS) in the configuration presented for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in the first half of 2021, showing the proposed technical solutions for the MMS to fulfill the System requirements.

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Vincenzo De Caprio, Vincenzo Cianniello, Christian Eredia, Domenico D'Auria, Enrico Cascone, Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli, Matteo Aliverti, Giorgio Pariani, Marco Riva, Jacopo Farinato, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Simonetta Chinellato, Matteo Munari, Ivan Di Antonio, Gianluca Di Rico, and Paolo Ciliegi "Mechanical design overview for the main structure of MAORY/MORFEO", Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 121842X (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628893

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