A Simple Turbulence Simulator for Adaptive Optics
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The SOAR telescope in Chile is dedicated to high angular resolution. For this reason it will be equipped with an AO instrument, the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM), that will be able to improve the image quality by a factor of 2 to 5 in the visible, thanks to a partial correction of the first few kilometers of the atmosphere. TurSim is the turbulence simulator designed for SAM, and consists of telescope emulation with transparent turbulent phase screens in its pupil.
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