Andrew J. Connolly

Deploying AI for active optics control of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory uses an active optics system (AOS) to deliver consistently high image quality across its 9.6 deg2 field of view. The baseline forward-modeling approach provides physically interpretable wavefront fits, but challenges the cadence required for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). We d...