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  1. The innermost regions of massive protostars traced by masers, high-resolution radio continuum, and near-infrared imaging

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  2. MCAO with LINC-NIRVANA at LBT: preparing for first light

    Article • September 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  3. Sensitivity to differential piston and to adaptive optics errors with the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer

    Article • August 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  4. Fundamental gain in high-contrast imaging with the large binocular telescope interferometer

    Article • August 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  5. The LATT way towards large active primaries for space telescopes

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Mr. Francesco D'Amato, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  6. Laboratory demonstration of a primary active mirror for space with the LATT: large aperture telescope technology

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Mr. Francesco D'Amato, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  7. Solving the MCAO partial illumination issue and laboratory results

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  8. Dimensioning the MAORY real time computer

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  9. Sparse aperture differential piston measurements using the pyramid wave-front sensor

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  10. Dark tip-tilt sensing

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  11. Kaczmarz and Cimmino: iterative and layer-oriented approaches to atmospheric tomography

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  12. The numerical simulation tool for the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  13. High order dark wavefront sensing simulations

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  14. Accurate laser guide star wavefront sensor simulation for the E-ELT first light adaptive optics module

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  15. SOUL: the Single conjugated adaptive Optics Upgrade for LBT

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  16. MAORY: adaptive optics module for the E-ELT

    Article • July 2016, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  17. MAD ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGING OF HIGH-LUMINOSITY QUASARS: A PILOT PROJECT

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, July 2016, American Astronomical Society

    michela uslenghi, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  18. Active optics system of the VLT Survey Telescope

    Article • Applied Optics, February 2016, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  19. Solving The Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics Partial Illumination Issue With Laboratory Results

    Article • January 2016, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  20. The VLT Survey Telescope: What Stands Behind the Surveys

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  21. THE ABSOLUTE AGE OF THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER M15 USING NEAR-INFRARED ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGES FROM PISCES/LBT

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  22. Star and jet multiplicity in the high-mass star forming region IRAS 05137+3919

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, September 2015, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  23. SPATIALLY RESOLVED M-BAND EMISSION FROM IO’S LOKI PATERA–FIZEAU IMAGING AT THE 22.8 m LBT

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Christian Veillet, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  24. Wavefront sensing in a partially illuminated, rotating pupil

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  25. End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  26. On the use of asymmetric PSF on NIR images of crowded stellar fields

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  27. Preparing for the phase B of the E-ELT MCAO module project

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  28. Pathfinder first light: alignment, calibration, and commissioning of the LINC-NIRVANA ground-layer adaptive optics subsystem

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  29. Design and numerical simulations of the GMT Natural Guide star WFS

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  30. Acquiring multiple stars with the LINC-NIRVANA Pathfinder

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  31. Impact of sodium layer variations on the performance of the E-ELT MCAO module

    Article • August 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  32. Fizeau interferometric imaging of Io volcanism with LBTI/LMIRcam

    Article • July 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  33. First light of the LINC-NIRVANA Pathfinder experiment

    Article • July 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  34. MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system

    Article • July 2014, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  35. A high-resolution image of the inner shell of the P Cygni nebula in the infrared [Fe ii] line

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  36. ERIS: preliminary design phase overview

    Article • July 2014, SPIE

    Dr Giovanni Cresci, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  37. Adaptive optics at short wavelengths

    Article • Experimental Astronomy, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  38. Reconstruction of High Dynamic Range Images: Simulations of LBT Observations of a Stellar Jet, a Pathfinder Study for Future AO-Assisted Giant Telescopes

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, February 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  39. Direct imaging of Beta Pictoris b with first-light Magellan Adaptive Optics

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, June 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  40. High Contrast Imaging of an Exoplanet with the Magellan VisAO Camera

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, June 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  41. Software and control system for the VLT Survey Telescope

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, May 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  42. ON THE RADIO AND NEAR-INFRARED JET OF PKS 2155–304 AND ITS CLOSE ENVIRONMENT

    Article • The Astronomical Journal, February 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    michela uslenghi, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  43. LINC-NIRVANA for the large binocular telescope: setting up the world’s largest near infrared binoculars for astronomy

    Article • February 2013, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  44. A close-up view of a bipolar jet: Sub-arcsecond near-infrared imaging of the high-mass protostar IRAS 20126+4104

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, January 2013, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  45. LBT observations of the HR 8799 planetary system

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, December 2012, EDP Sciences

    Dr Giovanni Cresci, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  46. LINC-NIRVANA for the LBT: setting up the world's largest NIR binoculars for astronomy

    Article • October 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  47. Large field-of-view configurations for large-telescope adaptive optics systems: advantages and tradeoffs

    Article • October 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  48. Pointing and tracking results of the VST telescope

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  49. The VST alignment: strategy and results

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  50. The active optics system of the VST: concepts and results

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  51. VST: from commissioning to science

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  52. The actuator design and the experimental tests of a new technology large deformable mirror for visible wavelengths adaptive optics

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  53. Developing a new software package for PSF estimation and fitting of adaptive optics images

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  54. First closed-loop visible AO test results for the advanced adaptive secondary AO system for the Magellan Telescope: MagAO's performance and status

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  55. First on-sky calibration of an high order adaptive optics system

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  56. Infinite impulse response modal filtering in visible adaptive optics

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  57. LINC-NIRVANA Pathfinder: testing the next generation of wave front sensors at LBT

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  58. Natural guide star adaptive optics systems at LBT: FLAO commissioning and science operations status

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  59. Operation of the adaptive optics system at the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  60. The Giant Magellan Telescope adaptive optics program

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  61. The LINC-NIRVANA high layer wavefront sensor laboratory experiment: progress report

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  62. Wavefront sensor design for the GMT natural guide star AO system

    Article • September 2012, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  63. The tracking control system of the VLT Survey Telescope

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, September 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  64. Removing static aberrations from the active optics system of a wide-field telescope

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, June 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  65. FIRST LIGHT LBT AO IMAGES OF HR 8799 bcde AT 1.6 AND 3.3 μm: NEW DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN YOUNG PLANETS AND OLD BROWN DWARFS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  66. THE GRAY NEEDLE: LARGE GRAINS IN THE HD 15115 DEBRIS DISK FROM LBT/PISCES/ Ks AND LBTI /LMIRcam/ L ′ ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGING

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, May 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Cresci, Carmelo Arcidiacono

  67. HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF ORBITAL MOTION IN THE ORION TRAPEZIUM CLUSTER WITH THE LBT AO SYSTEM

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  68. Large Binocular Telescope Adaptive Optics System: new achievements and perspectives in adaptive optics

    Article • September 2011, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  69. Front Matter: Volume 8151

    Article • September 2011, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  70. First laboratory results with the LINC-NIRVANA high layer wavefront sensor

    Article • Optics Express, August 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  71. Astrometry with the MCAO instrument MAD. An analysis of single-epoch data obtained in the layer-oriented mode

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, June 2011, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  72. The jet of the BL Lacertae object PKS 2201+044: MAD near-IR adaptive optics observations and comparison with optical, radio and X-ray data

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, February 2011, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  73. Laboratory characterization and performance of the high-order adaptive optics system for the Large Binocular Telescope

    Article • Applied Optics, October 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  74. The ADC for the VST Telescope: theory and preliminary test of the electromechanical system

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  75. A compact design of a WFS for a natural guide star-based ELT adaptive optics system

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  76. A very wide field wavefront sensor for a very narrow field interferometer

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  77. Adaptive optics with solely natural guide stars for an extremely large telescope

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  78. An update of the on-sky performance of the layer-oriented wavefront sensor for MAD

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  79. Analysis of LBT LINC-NIRVANA simulated images of galaxies

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  80. First light AO (FLAO) system for LBT: final integration, acceptance test in Europe, and preliminary on-sky commissioning results

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  81. Fringe detection and piston variability in LINC-NIRVANA

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  82. Handling complex adaptive optics concepts including the third and fourth dimensions

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  83. Numerical control matrix rotation for the LINC-NIRVANA multiconjugate adaptive optics system

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  84. PLATO: detailed design of the telescope optical units

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  85. Performance of the VST secondary mirror support system

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  86. The MCAO systems within LINC-NIRVANA: control aspects beyond wavefront correction

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  87. The PLATO opto-mechanical unit prototyping and AIV phase

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  88. The VST auxiliary units: a status report before their commissioning in Paranal

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  89. The VST telescope primary mirror safety system: simulation model and mechanical implementation

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  90. The adaptive secondary mirror for the Large Binocular Telescope: optical acceptance test and preliminary on-sky commissioning results

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  91. The opto-mechanical alignment procedure of the VLT Survey Telescope

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  92. How to break the FoV versus thickness rule in MCAO

    Article • January 2010, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  93. DEALING WITH TURBULENCE: MCAO EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND

    Article • September 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  94. RETRIEVING HIGH LAYER ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE STATISTICS ON E-ELT SCALES

    Article • September 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  95. The jet of the BL Lacertae object PKS 0521-365 in the near-IR: MAD adaptive optics observations

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 2009, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  96. MCAO near-IR photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6388: MAD observations in crowded fields

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, November 2008, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  97. TOE-The Onduline Experiment: a new kind of wavefront sensor to characterize astronomical sites for Extremely Large Telescopes

    Article • August 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  98. General performance analysis of a Fizeau interferometer

    Article • July 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  99. Analysis of LBT LINC-NIRVANA simulated images of galaxies and young stellar objects

    Article • July 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  100. A preliminary overview of the multiconjugate adaptive optics module for the E-ELT

    Article • July 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  101. Layer oriented wavefront sensor for MAD on sky operations

    Article • July 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  102. Layer oriented: science with MAD and beyond

    Article • July 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  103. The Multiple Field of View Layer Oriented wavefront sensing system of LINC-NIRVANA: two arcminutes of corrected field using solely Natural Guide Stars

    Article • July 2008, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  104. Near infrared VLT/MAD observations of the isolated neutron stars RX J0420.0-5022 and RX J1856.5-3754

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, July 2008, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  105. Resolving stellar populations outside the Local Group: MAD observations of UKS 2323-326

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, April 2008, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  106. Advances in the reconstruction of LBT LINC-NIRVANA images

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, June 2007, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  107. Integration, testing, and laboratory characterization of the mid-high layer wavefront sensor for LINC-NIRVANA

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  108. Laboratory testing the layer oriented wavefront sensor for the multiconjugate adaptive optics demonstrator

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  109. MANU-CHAO: a laboratory ground-layer adaptive optics experiment

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  110. ONIRICA: an infrared camera for OWL with MCAO low order partial correction

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  111. Observation preparation software for LINC-NIRVANA

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  112. The LINC-NIRVANA fringe and flexure tracker: image analysis concept and fringe tracking performance estimate

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  113. The MCAO wavefront sensing system of LINC-NIRVANA: status report

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  114. Wide-field imaging on 8- to 100-meter class telescopes

    Article • June 2006, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  115. LINC-NIRVANA: MCAO toward Extremely Large Telescopes

    Article • Comptes Rendus Physique, December 2005, Elsevier

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  116. MAD: practical implementation of MCAO concepts

    Article • Comptes Rendus Physique, December 2005, Elsevier

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  117. Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics for ELTs: constraints and limitations

    Article • Comptes Rendus Physique, December 2005, Elsevier

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  118. Layer-oriented wavefront sensor for a multiconjugate adaptive optics demonstrator

    Article • September 2005, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  119. Arbitrarily Small Pupils in Layer‐Oriented Multi‐Conjugate Adaptive Optics

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, August 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  120. Beam divergence and vertex angle measurements for refractive pyramids

    Article • Optics Communications, August 2005, Elsevier

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  121. An adaptive 2 m class telescope for a microlensing search from Antarctica

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, January 2005, EDP Sciences

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  122. Assembly, integration, and test of the layer-oriented wavefront sensor for MAD

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  123. Wavefront sensing on 100-m scale

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  124. Kalman-filter-based optimal control law for star-oriented and layer-oriented multiconjugate adaptive optics

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  125. LINC-NIRVANA: how to get a 23-m wavefront nearly flat

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  126. LINC-NIRVANA: mechanical challanges of the MCAO wavefront sensor

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  127. LINC-NIRVANA: the single arm MCAO experiment

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  128. MAD status report

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  129. PIGS: first results on sky

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  130. Sky coverage for layer-oriented MCAO: a detailed analytical and numerical study

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  131. The LINC-NIRVANA fringe and flexure tracking system: differential piston simulation and detection

    Article • October 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  132. The double Prime Focus camera for the Large Binocular Telescope

    Article • September 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  133. Optical alignment of the LBT prime focus camera

    Article • September 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  134. A smart fast camera

    Article • September 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  135. A wide-field telescope for MACHO searching at Dome C

    Article • September 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  136. Layer-oriented simulation tool

    Article • Applied Optics, August 2004, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  137. Layer-Oriented on paper, laboratory, and soon on the sky

    Article • July 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  138. An active wavefront sensor to make feasible adaptive optics on 100-m class telescopes

    Article • July 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  139. LINC-NIRVANA: first attempt of an instrument for a 23-m-class telescope

    Article • July 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  140. PIGS on sky - dream or reality?

    Article • July 2004, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  141. Layer-oriented MCAO projects and experiments: an update

    Article • December 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  142. Sky coverage and Strehl ratio uniformity in layer-oriented MCAO systems

    Article • December 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  143. A visible MCAO channel for NIRVANA at the LBT

    Article • February 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  144. Identification and rejection of waffle modes in layer-oriented adaptive optics

    Article • February 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  145. Layer oriented multiconjugate adaptive optics systems: performance analysis by numerical simulations

    Article • February 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  146. Layer-oriented adaptive optics: from drawings to metal

    Article • February 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  147. Layer-oriented wavefront sensor for MAD: status and progress report

    Article • February 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  148. MAD the ESO multi-conjugate adaptive optics demonstrator

    Article • February 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  149. Layer-oriented single- and dual-field-of-view performance for OWL

    Article • January 2003, SPIE

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  150. A Few Degrees Very Wide Field of View Camera for VLT as a Finder for ELT

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  151. Layer-Oriented MCAO Projects for 8-m Class Telescopes and Possible Scientific Outcome

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Carmelo Arcidiacono

  152. The ESO multi-conjugate adaptive optics demonstrator: a status report confirtnation number: CS211512

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Carmelo Arcidiacono