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Table C.1.

AO numerical simulation parameters for simulation setups PWFS8M and SH8M.

Numerical simulation configurations
PWFS8M SH8M
D = 8 m diameter
Telescope Circular pupil
(no obstruction, no spider)

Tip-tilt mirror
DMs Cartesian grid DM defined per:
 Pitch of 50 cm, coupling of 0.24
 221 controlled actuators

WFS
 Wavelength 658 nm 500 nm
 Throughput 0.28 0.50
 Subapertures 24 × 24 16 × 16 (a)
 Measurements 1936 pixels total 368 slopes total
 Modulation 4 radius
 Centroiding Center of gravity
300 mas px−1
 Readout noise 0.3 e 3.0 e(b)

RTC controller
 Modes controlled 220 200 (a)
 Frequency fS = 500 Hz
 Latency τ = [0, T, 2T]

Real-time implementation
CLOSE p = 0.3; q± = 10−3; δkcrit = [1, 3, 5]
r = 0 [ − 0.5, 0.5]

Notes. Unspecified parameters are identical to the MICADO setup detailed in Table 2.

(a)

Fried geometry, with 20 highest-order KL modes filtered.

(b)

The read-out noise penalty for SH is loosely based on generally available detectors given the required number of pixels. This paper does not intend to compare Shack–Hartmann and PWFS. Guide-star magnitudes for the SH simulations are adjusted for a comparable S/N.

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