@conference{e15b68c24ec0492fb137c3211abc0d40,
title = "CANARY: An On-Sky Instrument Development Test Bench Open to the Community",
abstract = "The CANARY AO system was developed to provide on-sky demonstration of multiple NGS/LGS tomographic AO and later to assess the impact of ELT-scale LGS perspective elongation on Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor performance. CANARY completed these initial research goals in 2016, and the database of archived on-sky open- and pseudo-open loop AO telemetry data was made available to the community in 2018. Through the H2020 OPTICON program, and with support from ESO and the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, access to CANARY has now been opened to the instrumentation community through a competitive call for proposals. CANARY is now available to use as a test bench for the on-sky development of new instrumentation concepts or validate AO performance models at the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The first on-sky runs in 2019 have now been completed and an additional call is planned to allocate a total of 5-10 nights of on-sky time in 2020/2021. In this poster we describe the potential CANARY configurations offered to the community (including SCAO, NGS-only tomographic AO and sodium LGS AO), how to apply for time and gain access to the existing archive of on-sky CANARY data.",
keywords = "Adaptive optics, Instrumentation",
author = "T. Morris and E. Gendron and G. Rousset and {Bonaccini Calia}, D. and L. Bardou and M. Centrone and J. Osborn and F. Chemla and T. Buey and L. Staykov and N. Bharmal and M. Townson and M. Cohen",
note = "Funding Information: Horizon 2020: This project has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement number 730890. CANARY was funded in the UK through STFC via grants PP/E007651/1, ST/M007669/1, ST/L003457/1 and Durham University. In France it has been funded via ANR Mauii, INSU and the Observatoire de Paris. The development of the WLGSU was supported by ESO. The William Herschel and Isaac Netwon Telescopes is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof{\'i}sica de Canarias. The authors would especially like to thank the staff at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes for their continued support. Funding Information: Horizon 2020: This project has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement number 730890. CANARY was funded in the UK through STFC via grants PP/E007651/1, ST/M007669/1, ST/L003457/1 and Durham University. In France it has been funded via ANR Mauii, INSU and the Observatoire de Paris. The development of the WLGSU was supported by ESO. The William Herschel and Isaac Netwon Telescopes is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof?sica de Canarias. The authors would especially like to thank the staff at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes for their continued support. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 AO4ELT 2019 - Proceedings 6th Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes. All rights reserved.; 6th International Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2019 ; Conference date: 09-06-2019 Through 14-06-2019",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
day = "30",
language = "English",
pages = "1--6",
}