Installation and Field Tests of the Chicago Adaptive Optics System at Apache Point Observatory

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Dec 1995

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American Astronomical Society, 187th AAS Meeting, #76.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 27, p.1393

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Optics

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The Chicago Adaptive Optics System has been installed on the 3.5 meter ARC telescope at Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico since April of 1995. This is a high order (97 and 201 actuators) facility instrument optimized for use with a laser beacon. The system has achieved closed-loop performance on stars with two geometric types of deformable mirrors. Images and real-time wavefront errors of stars with different brightness have been recorded during these preliminary tests in order to quantitatively characterize the performance of the system. The unique compact design and a user-friendly computer interface make this system a general astronomical facility instrument as well as a powerful test bench to explore techniques of adaptive optics.

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