AOLI: Adaptive Optics plus Lucky Imager for the WHT (4.2m) and GTC (10.5m) Telescopes.

幸运成像与低阶自适应光学相结合，获得了有史以来在可见光或近红外波段获得的最高分辨率的微弱目标图像。这项建议是为了进一步发展所需的技术，一个创新的方法来波前传感，将允许显着暗淡的参考星使用比传统的夏克哈特曼传感器。这些将被纳入一个仪器，最初用于WHT 4.2米，有可能转移到La Palma的GTC 10米望远镜。在北方天空的相当大一部分上，仅使用微弱的自然导星，在I波段GTC上的角分辨率可达15毫角秒，在WHT上的角分辨率可达40毫角秒。该仪器是由剑桥大学天文学研究所与IAC（拉拉古纳）、UPCT（卡塔赫纳）、科隆大学和ING（拉帕尔马）工作人员合作的一部分。 该项目是STFC天文学科学计划的目标和愿望的核心。它还支持人们强烈表示的希望，即把荷兰国际集团的活动与设在拉帕尔马的宇航委员会/GranteCan望远镜的活动结合起来。该项目建立在几个令人兴奋的新技术的基础上，这些技术在过去的一年里在剑桥取得了长足的进步。特别地，现在在不损失分辨率的情况下实现了高得多的选择百分比。此处提议的仪器将作为永久驻留在岛上的访客仪器启动，中期目标是过渡到供两台拉帕尔马望远镜使用的共同用户设施。WHT上的仪器第一盏灯将在启动后约18个月，并在3年结束时完全运行。费用将由英国与西班牙和德国的合作者分摊。该提案共涉及STFC（167 K FEC）的138 K英镑，包括组件，旅行和工资。整个项目预计耗资150万英镑。

The highest resolution images of faint targets ever taken in the visible or near infrared were obtained by combining Lucky Imaging with low order adaptive optics. This proposal is to develop further the technologies needed for an innovative approach to wavefront sensing that will allow dramatically fainter reference stars to be used than with conventional Shack-Hartmann sensors. These will be incorporated in an instrument to be used initially on the WHT 4.2 m with the potential to move to the GTC 10 meter telescope on La Palma. Using only faint natural guide stars, angular resolution as good as 15 milliarcseconds in the GTC and 40 milliarcseconds on the WHT in I-band will be obtained over a substantial fraction of the northern sky. The instrument is part of a collaboration led by the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge, with the IAC (La Laguna), UPCT (Cartagena), University of Cologne and the staff of the ING (La Palma). This project is central to the aims and aspirations of the STFC science program for astronomy. It also supports the strongly expressed wish to integrate activities of the ING with those of the IAC/GranteCan telescope on La Palma. The project builds on several exciting new technologies that have made great strides over the last year in Cambridge. In particular, much higher selection percentages are now achieved without loss of resolution. The instrument proposed here will start as a visitor instrument permanently resident on the island, with the medium-term goal of transitioning to a common user facility for use on the two La Palma telescopes. The instrument first light on the WHT will be ~18 months after kick-off and fully operational by the end of 3 years. The costs will be shared between the UK and collaborators in Spain and Germany. This proposal is for a total of £138K from STFC (£167K FEC) including components, travel and salaries. The entire project is expected to cost in the region of £1.5 million.