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Published July 11, 2008 | Published
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Commissioning the MMT ground-layer and laser tomography adaptive optics systems

Abstract

A multi-laser adaptive optics system, at the 6.5 m MMT telescope, has been undergoing commissioning in preparation for wide-field, partially corrected as well as narrow-field, diffraction limited science observations in the thermal and near infrared. After several delays due to bad weather, we have successfully closed the full high order ground-layer adaptive optics (GLAO) control loop for the first time in February 2008 using five Rayleigh laser guide stars and a single tilt star. Characterization and automated correction of static aberrations such as non-common path errors were addressed in May 2008. Calibration measurements in preparation for laser tomography adaptive optics (LTAO) operation are planned for the fall of 2008 along with the start of shared-risk GLAO science observations. We present the results of GLAO observations with the PISCES imager, a 1 - 2.5 µm camera with a field of view of 110 arc seconds. The status of the remaining GLAO commissioning work is also reviewed. Finally, we present plans for commissioning work to implement the LTAO operating mode of the system.

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© 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Observations reported here were made at the MMT, a joint facility of the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution. This work has been supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant F49620-01-1-0383 and the National Science Foundation under grants AST-0138347 and AST-0505369.

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