Performance of Monte-Carlo simulation of adaptive optics systems of the EAGLE multi-IFU instrument for E-ELT

A method that has been followed to produce performance estimates for the adaptive optics (AO) aspect of the EAGLE instrument proposed for the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) (E-ELT) using Durham Monte-Carlo simulation code is presented. These simulations encompass a wide range of possible configurations for EAGLE, including multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO), segmented multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) and other more novel techniques. Particular emphasis is placed on the techniques used to enable a good simulation turn-around rate, allowing the large parameter space associated with optimising high performance AO systems to be explored. Performance estimate results for some AO system configurations are also provided.