Pruebas del espejo superdelgado en ESO
Este impresionante espejo delgado deformable ha sido entregado a ESO en Garching, Alemania, y en la foto se muestra pasando una de sus pruebas. Tiene un tamaño de 1.120 milímetros, pero solo 2 milímetros de grosor, lo que hace que sea mucho más delgado que la mayor parte de las ventanas de vidrio. El espejo es muy fino, de manera que es lo suficientemente flexible como para que las fuerzas magnéticas aplicadas alteren la forma de su superficie reflectora. Cuando se instale, la superficie del espejo cambiará constantemente por pequeñas cantidades de estas fuerzas que corregirán los efectos de deformación de la atmósfera de la Tierra, generando así imágenes mucho más precisas.
El nuevo espejo secundario deformable (DSM por las siglas en inglés de Deformable Secondary Mirror) reemplazará al actual espejo secundario en uno de los telescopios unitarios del VLT. La estructura secundaria completa incluye un conjunto de 1.170 actuadores que aplican fuerza a 1.170 imanes pegados a la parte trasera del fino espejo. Un sofisticado sistema electrónico, desarrollado específicamente para este dispositivo, controla el comportamiento del fino espejo delgado. La superficie reflectante puede deformarse más de mil veces por segundo gracias a la acción de los actuadores.
El sistema DSM fue proporcionado a ESO por las compañías italianas Microgate y ADS en diciembre de 2012, concluyendo ocho años de esfuerzo constantes en su desarrollo y fabricación. Es el espejo deformable más grande jamás construido para fines astronómicos y es el último de una larga línea de este tipo de espejos. La amplia experiencia de estos contratistas se refleja en el alto rendimiento del sistema y su fiabilidad. Se espera que su instalación en el VLT comience en el año 2015.
Este espejo delgado (ann12015) fue fabricado por la empresa francesa REOSC. Es una lámina de material cerámico, pulido para obtener una forma muy precisa. El proceso de fabricación comienza con un bloque de Zerodur, un material cerámico proporcionado por la empresa Schott Glass (Alemania) de más de 70 milímetros de grosor. La mayor parte de este material is eliminado durante el proceso de pulido para crear la lámina final, que debe ser delicadamente sujeta en todo momento dada su extrema fragilidad.
Enlaces
- Departamento de Óptica adaptativa de ESO
- Folleto del Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) en ESO (archivo PDF)
- Microgate
- ADS
- REOSC
- Schott Glass
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| Tipo: | Fotográfico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 18 de Febrero de 2013 a las 10:00 |
| Tamaño: | 5616 x 3744 px |
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