Description of the Chicago Adaptive Optics System (ChAOS)

Autor: Fang Shi, Walter J. Wild, Edward J. Kibblewhite, Barbara Carter, Mark Chun, Vijuna Scor, Michael F. Smutko
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Adaptive Optics in Astronomy.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.176079
Popis: This paper describes some of the history and the current design of the Chicago Adaptive Optics System (ChAOS). ChAOS is a facility AO system using a sodium layer laser beacon which is due to be permanently mounted on a 3.5 meter ARC telescope located at Apache Point New Mexico. First light is expected in 1995.
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