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Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system review - I. Design, trade-offs and integration
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P-Oxford Open Option A, 2013, 437 (3), pp.2361-2375. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt2054⟩, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013, 437 (3), pp.2361-2375. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt2054⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2013.
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Abstract
- The Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System (GeMS) at the Gemini South telescope in Cerro Pach{\'o}n is the first sodium-based multi-Laser Guide Star (LGS) adaptive optics system. It uses five LGSs and two deformable mirrors to measure and compensate for atmospheric distortions. The GeMS project started in 1999, and saw first light in 2011. It is now in regular operation, producing images close to the diffraction limit in the near infrared, with uniform quality over a field of view of two square arcminutes. The present paper (I) is the first one in a two-paper review of GeMS. It describes the system, explains why and how it was built, discusses the design choices and trade-offs, and presents the main issues encountered during the course of the project. Finally, we briefly present the results of the system first light.<br />Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
- Subjects :
- FOS: Physical sciences
Field of view
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Deformable mirror
law.invention
010309 optics
Telescope
Optics
law
0103 physical sciences
Aerospace engineering
Adaptive optics
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Physics
[PHYS]Physics [physics]
Uniform - quality
business.industry
Trade offs
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
First light
Space and Planetary Science
Guide star
business
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711 and 13652966
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P-Oxford Open Option A, 2013, 437 (3), pp.2361-2375. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt2054⟩, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013, 437 (3), pp.2361-2375. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt2054⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f426b66117fe59c04c38b146460fc7ee
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2054⟩