Speaker
Description
MICADO is the first light adaptive optics instrument of ESO ELT,
providing diffraction limited imaging and long-slit spectroscopy at
near-infrared wavelengths. For most of the planned MICADO scientific
applications, a detailed knowledge of the PSF is required. The PSF
Reconstruction (PSF-R) Team of MICADO is currently developing, for the
first time within all ESO telescopes, a software service devoted to
the reconstruction of the instrumental PSF from telemetry data only,
without accessing the scientific focal plane data themselves. The
PSF-R tool will work both for data gathered with a single-conjugate
natural guide star adaptive optics system (SCAO) and with a
multi-conjugate laser guide star adaptive optics system (MCAO,
developed by MAORY). The PSF-R service will support the
state-of-the-art scientific analysis of the MICADO images and spectra,
by further improving the reduction of AO data in a post processing
phase. The functionalities and architecture of the PSF-R software will
be highlighted in this presentation, together with an overview of the
successful analysis of both MICADO simulated data and real data from
the SCAO instrument SOUL at LBT. The development plan of the PSF-R
service will be discussed, showing the status of the MICADO PSF-R
deliverable and its readiness level. The PSF-R Team of MICADO has
successfully fulfilled the Final Design Review recently, and it is
ready to meet the ELT first light in 2027.
