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NIRVANA-VIS, an AO-assisted speckle holography add-on for visible wavelengths
Maria Bergomi  1, *@  , Kalyan Radhakrishnan  1@  , Carmelo Arcidiacono  1@  , Silvio Di Rosa  1, 2@  , Marco Dima  1@  , Davide Greggio  1@  , Luca Marafatto  3@  , Jacopo Farinato  3@  , Valentina Viotto  3@  , Florian Briegel  4@  , Thomas Bertram  4@  , Peter Bizenberger  5@  , Roberto Ragazzoni  3@  , Tom Herbst  4@  
1 : INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
2 : Department of Physics and Astronomy- University of Padova
3 : INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
4 : Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
5 : Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
* : Corresponding author

Nirvana-Vis project proposes a visible-wavelength imaging channel upgrade for LINC-NIRVANA (LN), the Italian-German high angular resolution imager installed on the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). LN is a near-infrared imager operating in the JHK photometric bands, equipped with a multiple-FoV MCAO system to deliver a near diffraction-limited two arcminutes FoV. The instrument has demonstrated on-sky consistent and stable Ground Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO) correction, improving the FWHM of the PSF up to a factor 3. We plan to exploit in such a wide corrected field, the technique of AO-assisted speckle holography, in which images are reconstructed from a long series of short exposure frames whose image quality has been sharpened by adaptive optics for the visible regime. We will present the opto-mechanical upgrade allowing this additional mode (under italian PNRR STILES project financement) while keeping all functionalities of the NIRVANA instrument.


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