TMT NFIRAOS: adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Glen Herriot; David Andersen; Jenny Atwood; Peter Byrnes; Marc-André Boucher; Corinne Boyer; Kris Caputa; Carlos Correia; Jennifer Dunn; Brent Ellerbroek; Joeleff Fitzsimmons; Luc Gilles; Paul Hickson; Alexis Hill; Dan Kerley; John Pazder; Vlad Reshetov; Scott Roberts; Malcolm Smith; Jean-Pierre Véran; Lianqi Wang; Ivan Wevers

doi:10.1117/12.925087

13 September 2012 TMT NFIRAOS: adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Glen Herriot, David Andersen, Jenny Atwood, Peter Byrnes, Marc-André Boucher, Corinne Boyer, Kris Caputa, Carlos Correia, Jennifer Dunn, Brent Ellerbroek, Joeleff Fitzsimmons, Luc Gilles, Paul Hickson, Alexis Hill, Dan Kerley, John Pazder, Vlad Reshetov, Scott Roberts, Malcolm Smith, Jean-Pierre Véran, Lianqi Wang, Ivan Wevers

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Proceedings Volume 8447, Adaptive Optics Systems III; 84471M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925087
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

NFIRAOS is the first-light adaptive optics system planned for the Thirty Meter Telescope, and is being designed at the National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. NFIRAOS is a laser guide star multiconjugate adaptive optics system - a practical approach to providing diffraction limited image quality in the NIR over a 30" field of view, with high sky coverage. This will enable a wide range of TMT science that depends upon the large corrected field of view and high precision astrometry and photometry. We review recent progress developing the design and conducting performance estimates for NFIRAOS.

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Glen Herriot, David Andersen, Jenny Atwood, Peter Byrnes, Marc-André Boucher, Corinne Boyer, Kris Caputa, Carlos Correia, Jennifer Dunn, Brent Ellerbroek, Joeleff Fitzsimmons, Luc Gilles, Paul Hickson, Alexis Hill, Dan Kerley, John Pazder, Vlad Reshetov, Scott Roberts, Malcolm Smith, Jean-Pierre Véran, Lianqi Wang, and Ivan Wevers "TMT NFIRAOS: adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope", Proc. SPIE 8447, Adaptive Optics Systems III, 84471M (13 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925087

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