Dr M. Concepción Cárdenas current position as a Senior optical engineer at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, where she is Optical lead of the IMAGER and SCAO subsystems of METIS instrument (Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph for the Extremely Large Telescope).
She is specialized in the VIS and IR optics, from the design to the integration, alignment and verification.
In her previous work she has been the optical lead of the wide-field infrared camera PANIC and of the infrared channel of the spectrograph CARMENES (both instruments belong to the Calar Alto Observatory, Almería, Spain).
She conducted her PhD, “PANIC, una cámara infrarroja de gran campo para el Observatorio de Calar Alto”, at the IAA-CSIC, for which she was awarded two prizes: in June 2019, the prize for the best Spanish PhD in Instrumentation, Computing and Technological Development in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017-2018, by the Spanish Astronomical Society; and in March, 2020, the MERAC Prize 2020 Best Doctoral Thesis Prize in New Technology (Instrumental) by the European Astronomical Society.
She is specialized in the VIS and IR optics, from the design to the integration, alignment and verification.
In her previous work she has been the optical lead of the wide-field infrared camera PANIC and of the infrared channel of the spectrograph CARMENES (both instruments belong to the Calar Alto Observatory, Almería, Spain).
She conducted her PhD, “PANIC, una cámara infrarroja de gran campo para el Observatorio de Calar Alto”, at the IAA-CSIC, for which she was awarded two prizes: in June 2019, the prize for the best Spanish PhD in Instrumentation, Computing and Technological Development in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017-2018, by the Spanish Astronomical Society; and in March, 2020, the MERAC Prize 2020 Best Doctoral Thesis Prize in New Technology (Instrumental) by the European Astronomical Society.
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• the size of the telescope and the associated complexity of the wavefront control tasks
• the unique scientific capabilities of METIS, including high contrast imaging
• the interaction with the newly established, integrated wavefront control infrastructure of the ELT
• the integration of the near-infrared Pyramid Wavefront Sensor and other key Adaptive Optics (AO) hardware embedded within a large, fully cryogenic instrument.
METIS and it’s AO system have passed the final design review and are now in the manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing phase. The firsts are approached through a compact hard- and software design and an extensive test program to mature METIS SCAO before it is deployed at the telescope. This program includes significant investments in test setups that allow to mimic conditions at the ELT. A dedicated cryo-test facility allows for subsystem testing independent of the METIS infrastructure. A telescope simulator is being set up for end-to-end laboratory tests of the AO control system together with the final SCAO hardware. Specific control algorithm prototypes will be tested on sky. In this contribution, we present the progress of METIS SCAO with an emphasis on the preparation for the test activities foreseen to enable a successful future deployment of METIS SCAO at the ELT.
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