Status of the PALM-3000 high-order adaptive optics system

Antonin H. Bouchez; Richard G. Dekany; Jennifer E. Roberts; John R. Angione; Christoph Baranec; Khanh Bui; Rick S. Burruss; Ernest E. Croner; Stephen R. Guiwits; David D. S. Hale; John R. Henning; Dean Palmer; J. Chris Shelton; Mitchell Troy; Tuan N. Truong; J. Kent Wallace; Jeffry Zolkower

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28 July 2010 Status of the PALM-3000 high-order adaptive optics system

Antonin H. Bouchez, Richard G. Dekany, Jennifer E. Roberts, John R. Angione, Christoph Baranec, Khanh Bui, Rick S. Burruss, Ernest E. Croner, Stephen R. Guiwits, David D. S. Hale, John R. Henning, Dean Palmer, J. Chris Shelton, Mitchell Troy, Tuan N. Truong, J. Kent Wallace, Jeffry Zolkower

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Proceedings Volume 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II; 77361Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857776
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The PALM-3000 upgrade to the Palomar Adaptive Optics system will deliver extreme adaptive optics correction to a suite of three infrared and visible instruments on the 5.1 meter Hale telescope. PALM-3000 uses a 3388-actuator tweeter and a 241-actuator woofer deformable mirror, a wavefront sensor with selectable pupil sampling, and an innovative wavefront control computer based on a cluster of 17 graphics processing units to correct wavefront aberrations at scales as fine as 8.1 cm at the telescope pupil using natural guide stars. Many components of the system, including the science instruments and a post-coronagraphic calibration wavefront sensor, have already been commissioned on the sky. Results from a laboratory testbed used to characterize the remaining new components and verify all interfaces are reported. Deployment to Palomar Observatory is planned August 2010, with first light expected in early 2011.

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Antonin H. Bouchez, Richard G. Dekany, Jennifer E. Roberts, John R. Angione, Christoph Baranec, Khanh Bui, Rick S. Burruss, Ernest E. Croner, Stephen R. Guiwits, David D. S. Hale, John R. Henning, Dean Palmer, J. Chris Shelton, Mitchell Troy, Tuan N. Truong, J. Kent Wallace, and Jeffry Zolkower "Status of the PALM-3000 high-order adaptive optics system", Proc. SPIE 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II, 77361Q (28 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857776

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