A Status Report on the Thirty Meter Telescope Adaptive Optics Program

Autor:	B. L. Ellerbroek
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Physics Control algorithm business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics First light Status report Laser guide star Optics Space and Planetary Science Sky Extremely Large Telescope business Adaptive optics Thirty Meter Telescope media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 34:121-139
ISSN:	0973-7758 0250-6335
Popis:	We provide an update on the recent development of the adaptive optics (AO) systems for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) since mid-2011. The first light AO facility for TMT consists of the Narrow Field Infra-Red AO System (NFIRAOS) and the associated Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF). This order 60 × 60 laser guide star (LGS) multi-conjugate AO (MCAO) architecture will provide uniform, diffraction-limited performance in the J, H and K bands over 17–30 arcsec diameter fields with 50 per cent sky coverage at the galactic pole, as is required to support TMT science cases. The NFIRAOS and LGSF subsystems completed successful preliminary and conceptual design reviews, respectively, in the latter part of 2011. We also report on progress in AO component prototyping, control algorithm development, and system performance analysis, and conclude with an outline of some possible future AO systems for TMT.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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