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Table 5

Simulation parameters used for closed-loop simulation for a single-stage XAO using the iMZ.

Simulation parameters
Fried’s parameter r0
Coherence time τ0
Outer scale L0
10 cm or 15 cm at λ = 500 nm
5.3 ms or 5.8 ms
25 m
WFS iMZ (1.5 λ/D pinhole and 40/60 beam splitter)
WFS wavelength 1.2 µm
Image wavelength 1.2 µm
Pixel size 20 cm (40 × 40 pixels)
Corrector Perfect DM (no fitting error)
Controller Integrator (g = 0.3)
Loop frequency 1 kHz
Delay 1 frame
Pre-corrected modes Piston, tip, and tilt
Noise Photon noise + read-out noise (σron = 0.1 e)

Notes. The turbulent phase screen are generated with the multi-layers model of the simulation tool COMPASS (Ferreira et al. 2018) developed for the SAXO+ (Goulas et al. 2024).

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