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3 January 2020 GNAO: an MCAO facility for Gemini North
Gaetano Sivo, David Palmer, Julia Scahrwächter, Morten Andersen, Natalie Provost, Eduardo Marin, Marcos van Dam, Brian Chinn, Emmanuel Chirre, Charles Cavedoni, Thomas Schneider, Stacy Kang, Paul Hirst, William Rambold, Angelic Ebbers, Pedro Gigoux, Laure Catala, Thomas Hayward, John Blakeslee, Henry Roe, Jennifer Lotz, Scot Kleinman, Suresh Sivanandam, Anja Krause, Mark Ammons, Chadwick Trujillo, Chris Packham, Franck Marchis, Julian Christou, James Jee, John Bally, Mike Pierce, Thomas Puzia, Paolo Turri, Hwihyun Kim, Meg Schwamb, Trent Dupuy, Ruben Diaz, Rodrigo Carrasco, Benoit Neichel, Carlos Correia, Eric Steinbring, François Rigaut, Jean-Pierre Véran, Mark Chun, Masen Lamb, Scott Chapman, Simone Esposito, Thierry Fusco
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Proceedings Volume 11203, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019; 112030N (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539706
Event: ANZCOP, 2019, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract
Gemini Observatory has been awarded a major funding from the National Science Foundation to build a complete new state of the art multi-conjugate adaptive optics system for Gemini North. The system will be designed to provide an MCAO facility delivering close to diffraction limit correction in the near-infrared over a 2 arcminutes field of view and feed imaging and spectroscopic instruments. We present in this paper the results of the conceptual design phase with details on the new proposed laser guide star facilities and adaptive optics bench. We will present results on the performance simulation assessments as well as the developed selected science cases.
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KEYWORDS
Gemini Observatory
Adaptive optics
Astronomy
Laser guide stars
Telescopes
Stars
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