The VLT Unit telescope 4 will be equipped in 2013 with an Adaptive Optics (AO) Facility, replacing the current secondary mirror of the telescope with an adaptive one. The AO Facility will allow high order AO correction at all three telescope foci.
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Kissler-Patig, M. et al. (2009). CASIS: Cassegrain Adaptive-Optics Simultaneous Imaging System for the VLT. In: Moorwood, A. (eds) Science with the VLT in the ELT Era. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9190-2_85
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