MOAO Collaboration Twiki

Overview

• Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) is the technique of high-angular-resolution astronomy whereby blurring by the Earth's turbulent atmosphere is compensated in real-time using a number of simultaneously acting deformable mirrors, one each per dedicated target direction, often driven using control information derived from a single tomographic wavefront sensing system.

Grand Questions for MOAO (Draft)

• Can object selection mechanisms having sufficient speed, accuracy, stability, and patrol range for MOAO be built?
• Can wavefront sensors of sufficiently good linearity, stability, and dynamic range for MOAO be built?
• Can residual low-order aberrations resulting from the nature of open-loop go-to correction be sufficiently controlled (using additional information)?

MOAO TWiki Utilities