We present progress on a conceptual design for a new Keck multi-conjugate adaptive optics system capable of visible light correction with a near-diffraction-limited spatial resolution. The KOLA (Keck Optical LGS AO) system will utilize a planned adaptive secondary mirror (ASM), 2 additional high-altitude deformable mirrors (DMs), and ≳8 laser guide stars (LGS) to sense and correct atmospheric turbulence. The field of regard for selecting guide stars will be 2’ and the corrected science field of view will be 60”. We describe science cases, system requirements, and performance simulations for the system performed with error budget spreadsheet tools and MAOS physical optics simulations. We will also present results from trade studies for the actuator count on the ASM. KOLA will feed a new optical imager and IFU spectrograph in addition to the planned Liger optical + infrared (λ>850nm) imager and IFU spectrograph. Performance simulations show KOLA will deliver a Strehl of 12% at g’, 21% at r’, 53% at Y, and 87% at K bands on axis with nearly uniform image quality over a 40”×40” field of view in the optical and over 60”×60” beyond 1 μm. Ultimately, the system will deliver spatial resolutions superior to HST and JWST (∼17 mas at r’-band) and comparable to the planned first-generation infrared AO systems for the ELTs.
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope, sited at an elevation of 5200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will utilize more than 60,000 transition edge sensors (TES) to observe CMB temperature and polarization in six frequency bands from 27-280 GHz. Common to both the small and large aperture telescope receivers (LATR) is the 300K-4K Universal Readout Harness (URH), which supports up to 600 DC bias lines and 24 radio frequency (RF) channels consisting of input and output coaxial cables, input attenuators and custom high dynamic range 40K low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) on the output readout coaxial cable. Each RF channel can read out up to 1000 TES detectors. In this paper, we will present the design and characterization of the six URHs constructed for the initial phase of SO deployment.
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