GeMS first on-sky results

Franҫois Rigaut; Benoit Neichel; Maxime Boccas; Céline d'Orgeville; Gustavo Arriagada; Vincent Fesquet; Sarah J. Diggs; Claudio Marchant; Gaston Gausach; William N. Rambold; Javier Luhrs; Shane Walker; Eleazar Rodrigo Carrasco-Damele; Michelle L. Edwards; Peter Pessev; Ramon L. Galvez; Tomislav B. Vucina; Claudio Araya; Alejandro Gutierrez; Angelic W. Ebbers; Andrew Serio; Cristian Moreno; Cristian Urrutia; Rolando Rogers; Roberto Rojas; Chadwick Trujillo; Bryan Miller; Douglas A. Simons; Ariel Lopez; Vanessa Montes; Herman Diaz; Felipe Daruich; Felipe Colazo; Matthieu Bec; Gelys Trancho; Michael Sheehan; Peter McGregor; Peter J. Young; Matthew C. Doolan; Jan van Harmelen; Brent L. Ellerbroek; Damien Gratadour; Aurea Garcia-Rissmann

doi:10.1117/12.927061

13 September 2012 GeMS: first on-sky results

Franҫois Rigaut, Benoit Neichel, Maxime Boccas, Céline d'Orgeville, Gustavo Arriagada, Vincent Fesquet, Sarah J. Diggs, Claudio Marchant, Gaston Gausach, William N. Rambold, Javier Luhrs, Shane Walker, Eleazar Rodrigo Carrasco-Damele, Michelle L. Edwards, Peter Pessev, Ramon L. Galvez, Tomislav B. Vucina, Claudio Araya, Alejandro Gutierrez, Angelic W. Ebbers, Andrew Serio, Cristian Moreno, Cristian Urrutia, Rolando Rogers, Roberto Rojas, Chadwick Trujillo, Bryan Miller, Douglas A. Simons, Ariel Lopez, Vanessa Montes, Herman Diaz, Felipe Daruich, Felipe Colazo, Matthieu Bec, Gelys Trancho, Michael Sheehan, Peter McGregor, Peter J. Young, Matthew C. Doolan, Jan van Harmelen, Brent L. Ellerbroek, Damien Gratadour, Aurea Garcia-Rissmann

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Proceedings Volume 8447, Adaptive Optics Systems III; 84470I (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927061
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

GeMS, the Gemini Laser Guide Star Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics facility system, has seen first light in December 2011, and has already produced images with H band Strehl ratio in excess of 35% over fields of view of 85x85 arcsec, fulfilling the MCAO promise. In this paper, we report on these early results, analyze trends in performance, and concentrate on key or novel aspects of the system, like centroid gain estimation, on-sky non common path aberration estimation. We also present the first astrometric analysis, showing very encouraging results.

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Franҫois Rigaut, Benoit Neichel, Maxime Boccas, Céline d'Orgeville, Gustavo Arriagada, Vincent Fesquet, Sarah J. Diggs, Claudio Marchant, Gaston Gausach, William N. Rambold, Javier Luhrs, Shane Walker, Eleazar Rodrigo Carrasco-Damele, Michelle L. Edwards, Peter Pessev, Ramon L. Galvez, Tomislav B. Vucina, Claudio Araya, Alejandro Gutierrez, Angelic W. Ebbers, Andrew Serio, Cristian Moreno, Cristian Urrutia, Rolando Rogers, Roberto Rojas, Chadwick Trujillo, Bryan Miller, Douglas A. Simons, Ariel Lopez, Vanessa Montes, Herman Diaz, Felipe Daruich, Felipe Colazo, Matthieu Bec, Gelys Trancho, Michael Sheehan, Peter McGregor, Peter J. Young, Matthew C. Doolan, Jan van Harmelen, Brent L. Ellerbroek, Damien Gratadour, and Aurea Garcia-Rissmann "GeMS: first on-sky results", Proc. SPIE 8447, Adaptive Optics Systems III, 84470I (13 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927061

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