PALM-3000 high-order adaptive optics system for Palomar Observatory
- Creators
- Bouchez, Antonin H.
- Dekany, Richard G.
- Angione, John R.
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Baranec, Christoph
- Britton, Matthew C.
- Bui, Khanh
- Burruss, Rick S.
- Cromer, John L.
- Guiwits, Stephen R.
- Henning, John R.
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Hickey, Jeff
- McKenna, Daniel L.
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Moore, Anna M.
- Roberts, Jennifer E.
- Trinh, Thang Q.
- Troy, Mitchell
- Truong, Tuan N.
- Velur, Viswa
Abstract
Deployed as a multi-user shared facility on the 5.1 meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory, the PALM-3000 highorder upgrade to the successful Palomar Adaptive Optics System will deliver extreme AO correction in the near-infrared, and diffraction-limited images down to visible wavelengths, using both natural and sodium laser guide stars. Wavefront control will be provided by two deformable mirrors, a 3368 active actuator woofer and 349 active actuator tweeter, controlled at up to 3 kHz using an innovative wavefront processor based on a cluster of 17 graphics processing units. A Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor with selectable pupil sampling will provide high-order wavefront sensing, while an infrared tip/tilt sensor and visible truth wavefront sensor will provide low-order LGS control. Four back-end instruments are planned at first light: the PHARO near-infrared camera/spectrograph, the SWIFT visible light integral field spectrograph, Project 1640, a near-infrared coronagraphic integral field spectrograph, and 888Cam, a high-resolution visible light imager.
Additional Information
© 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant AST-0619922, PI: Dr. R. Dekany. Support for the wavefront reconstructor computer has been provided by the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, Award #FA9550-06-1-0343 (DURIP FY06). Support for the PALM-3000 3368 actuator DM is provided by a NASA Small Business Innovation Research grant #NNG06CA21C. Generous support for the adaptive optics interface to the SWIFT instrument has been provided by Ron and Glo Helin.Attached Files
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Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 91868
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20181217-134857907
- AST-0619922
- NSF
- FA9550-06-1-0343
- Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR)
- NNG06CA21C
- NASA
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2018-12-18Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 7015