On the relationship between thermal seeing and observatory design

Konstantinos Vogiatzis; Hugh Thompson; John Rogers; Gelys Trancho

doi:10.1117/12.2630428

25 August 2022 On the relationship between thermal seeing and observatory design

Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Hugh Thompson, John Rogers, Gelys Trancho

Proceedings Volume 12187, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy X; 1218716 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630428
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

Environmental effects on the Image Quality (IQ) of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) are estimated by aero-thermal numerical simulations. This study summarizes the state of the art of optical turbulence modeling and presents an update of the ongoing effort to minimize prediction time and computational resources by extrapolating the convergence of TMT’s IQ metric in the spatial resolution limit with quantifiable uncertainty, in order to be able to conduct trade studies and assess IQ sensitivity to various thermal gradient inputs.

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Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Hugh Thompson, John Rogers, and Gelys Trancho "On the relationship between thermal seeing and observatory design", Proc. SPIE 12187, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy X, 1218716 (25 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630428

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