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PALM-3000: visible light AO on the 5.1-meter Telescope
Abstract
PALM-3000 is proposed to be the first visible-light sodium laser guide star astronomical adaptive optics system. Deployed as a multi-user shared facility on the 5.1 meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain, this state-of-the-art upgrade to the successful Palomar Adaptive Optics System will have the unique capability to open the visible light spectrum to diffraction-limited scientific access from the ground, providing angular imaging resolution as fine as 16 milliarcsec with modest sky coverage fraction.
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© 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Support for the real-time reconstruction computer for PALM-3000 has been provided by the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, Award #FA9550-06-1-0343 (DURIP FY06). Support for the PALM-3000 662 actuator DM is provided by SBIR award # NNG05CA21C. Upgrades to the Chicago Sum Frequency Laser have been funded in part by the Center for Adaptive Optics under the STC Program of the National Science Foundation, Agreement No. AST-98-76783. Generous support for the adaptive optics interface to the Oxford SWIFT instrument has been provided by Ron and Glo Helin.Attached Files
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- FA9550-06-1-0343
- Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR)
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- NASA
- AST-98-76783
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