APPLY is a 4 years program funded by the ANR. Starting in 2020, the goal is to provide the community with operational solutions for Adaptive Optics PSF prediction. I'm responsible of WP2 dedicated to the development and validation of supervised neural networks for AO PSF prediction. I also participate to the work on deconvolution for Integral Field Spectrographs.
Starfinder is a well reputed source extraction algorithm that suits the processing of AO-corrected images. I'm collaborating with INAF to upgrade the existing pipeline with the advanced PSF model PSFAO19.
The Psf Utilities for the Adaptive optics at Keck Observation (PUAKO) is a pipeline I developed during by Keck visiting scholarship in 2019, and allows to perform PSF reconstruction (forward and hybrid) from AO control loop data and AO performance diagnosis. I'm now concentrating on science verification.
CARMEN is a research project that started a decade ago and that adresses the demonstration of atmospheric tomography for wide-field AO systems using supervised neural networks. I'm collaborating with Universities of Oviedo and Durham to deploy Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in this context.
MAWSER is a recent project that was kicked-off in 2020 to develop novel CNN-based techniques for wavefront reconstruction with Fourier-filtering WFS (like the pyramid WFS). This project results from a collaboration between LAM, ONERA and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso (PUCV) in Chili.
PEPITO is a concept of external atmospheric profiler based on multiple short-exposure wide-field observations of stellar fields. This project gathers LAM, the University of Durham, the Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, the Ankara University and the Eastern Anatolia Observatory in Turkey.
One of the application of the atmospheric conditions forecasting is the ability to predict the PSF of AO ground-based instruments by using weather forecast models and AO simulations. I'm involved in this project led by INAF as an expert in AO data processing and PSF simulations.
MAVIS is a project of a visible wide-field imager and spectrograph for the 3rd generation of instrumentation at VLT. MAVIS has entered in phase B end of 2020 and I'm leading the data processing and PSF estimation work package.
HARMONI is a project of a 1st light integral field spectrograph for the ELT, and should pass its final design review by end 2021. I'm involved in the preparation of the data processing and PSF estimation.
MOSAIC is a project for a 2nd light multi-object spectrograph for the ELT, and should enter in phase B by end of 2021. I'm involved in the simulations of the AO system and the analysis of the different AO modes considered for MOSAIC.
ESO has initiated a series (~10) of Working Groups (WGs) to design tools for preparing observations with the ELT. I'm involved in two WGs dedicated to PSF simulation and reconstruction and I actively work on the design of a PSF simulator.