Commissioning status of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system

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Jul 2010

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Adaptive Optics Systems II. Edited by Ellerbroek, Brent L.; Hart, Michael; Hubin, Norbert; Wizinowich, Peter L. Proceedings o

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The current status of commissioning and recent results in performance of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system is presented. After the first light using natural guide stars with limited configuration of the system in October 2006, we concentrated to complete a final configuration for a natural guide star to serve AO188 to an open use observation. On sky test with full configurations using natural guide star started in August 2008, and opened to a public one month later. We continuously achieved around 0.6 to 0.7 of Strehl ratio at K band using a bright guide star around 9th to 10th magnitude in R band. We found an unexpectedly large wavefront error in our laser launching telescope. The modification to fix this large wavefront error was made and we resumed the characterization of a laser guide star in February 2009. Finally we obtained a round-shaped laser guide star, whose image size is about 1.2 to 1.6 arcsec under the typical seeing condition. We are in the final phase of commissioning. A diffraction limited image by our AO system using a laser guide star will be obtained in the end of 2010. An open use observation with laser guide star system will start in the middle of 2011.

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