A near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for the MMT

Jacob Taylor; Suresh Sivanandam; Narsireddy Anugu; Adam Butko; Shaojie Chen; Olivier Durney; Tim Hardy; Masen Lamb; Manny Montoya; Katie Morzinski; Robin Swanson

doi:10.1117/12.2629419

29 August 2022 A near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for the MMT

Jacob Taylor, Suresh Sivanandam, Narsireddy Anugu, Adam Butko, Shaojie Chen, Olivier Durney, Tim Hardy, Masen Lamb, Manny Montoya, Katie Morzinski, Robin Swanson

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Proceedings Volume 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII; 121856R (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629419
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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The MMTO Adaptive optics exoPlanet characterization System (MAPS) is an ongoing upgrade to the 6.5-meter MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona. MAPS includes an upgraded adaptive secondary mirror (ASM), upgrades to the ARIES spectrograph, and a new AO system containing both an optical and near-infrared (NIR; 0.9-1.8 μm) pyramid wavefront sensor (PyWFS). The NIR PyWFS will utilize an IR-optimized double pyramid coupled with a SAPHIRA detector: a low-read noise electron Avalanche Photodiode (eAPD) array. This NIR PyWFS will improve MAPS’s sky coverage by an order of magnitude by allowing redder guide stars (e.g. K & M-dwarfs or highly obscured stars in the Galactic plane) to be used. To date, the custom designed cryogenic SAPHIRA camera has been fully characterized and can reach sub-electron read noise at high avalanche gain. In order to test the performance of the camera in a closed-loop environment prior to delivery to the observatory, an AO testbed was designed and constructed. In addition to testing the SAPHIRA’s performance, the testbed will be used to test and further develop the proposed on-sky calibration procedure for MMTO’s ASM. We will report on the anticipated performance improvements from our NIR PyWFS, the SAPHIRA’s closed-loop performance on our testbed, and the status of our ASM calibration procedure.

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Jacob Taylor, Suresh Sivanandam, Narsireddy Anugu, Adam Butko, Shaojie Chen, Olivier Durney, Tim Hardy, Masen Lamb, Manny Montoya, Katie Morzinski, and Robin Swanson "A near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for the MMT", Proc. SPIE 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 121856R (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629419

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