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Projection approach to complexity reduction in tomographic alignment of extremely large telescopes
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, California 92697, USA. ppiatrou@uci.edu
Abstract:
We describe a complexity reduction approach intended to solve the tomographic alignment problem for the Thirty Meter Telescope by means of its alignment and phasing system (APS) with little loss of information. This approach is computationally efficient enough to perform detailed Monte-Carlo simulations of the APS on a standard PC. We present sample simulations to model error propagation through the system and to build a preliminary APS alignment error budget.
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