TY - GEN
T1 - MagAO
T2 - Adaptive Optics Systems IV
AU - Morzinski, Katie M.
AU - Close, Laird M.
AU - Males, Jared R.
AU - Kopon, Derek
AU - Hinz, Phil M.
AU - Esposito, Simone
AU - Riccardi, Armando
AU - Puglisi, Alfio
AU - Pinna, Enrico
AU - Briguglio, Runa
AU - Xompero, Marco
AU - Quirós-Pacheco, Fernando
AU - Bailey, Vanessa
AU - Follette, Katherine B.
AU - Rodigas, T. J.
AU - Wu, Ya Lin
AU - Arcidiacono, Carmelo
AU - Argomedo, Javier
AU - Busoni, Lorenzo
AU - Hare, Tyson
AU - Uomoto, Alan
AU - Weinberger, Alycia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 SPIE.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - MagAO is the new adaptive optics system with visible-light and infrared science cameras, located on the 6.5-m Magellan "Clay" telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The instrument locks on natural guide stars (NGS) from 0th to 16th R-band magnitude, measures turbulence with a modulating pyramid wavefront sensor binnable from 28×28 to 7×7 subapertures, and uses a 585-actuator adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) to provide at wavefronts to the two science cameras. MagAO is a mutated clone of the similar AO systems at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) at Mt. Graham, Arizona. The high-level AO loop controls up to 378 modes and operates at frame rates up to 1000 Hz. The instrument has two science cameras: VisAO operating from 0.5-1μm and Clio2 operating from 1-5 μm. MagAO was installed in 2012 and successfully completed two commissioning runs in 2012-2013. In April 2014 we had our first science run that was open to the general Magellan community. Observers from Arizona, Carnegie, Australia, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, and Chile took observations in collaboration with the MagAO instrument team. Here we describe the MagAO instrument, describe our on-sky performance, and report our status as of summer 2014.
AB - MagAO is the new adaptive optics system with visible-light and infrared science cameras, located on the 6.5-m Magellan "Clay" telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The instrument locks on natural guide stars (NGS) from 0th to 16th R-band magnitude, measures turbulence with a modulating pyramid wavefront sensor binnable from 28×28 to 7×7 subapertures, and uses a 585-actuator adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) to provide at wavefronts to the two science cameras. MagAO is a mutated clone of the similar AO systems at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) at Mt. Graham, Arizona. The high-level AO loop controls up to 378 modes and operates at frame rates up to 1000 Hz. The instrument has two science cameras: VisAO operating from 0.5-1μm and Clio2 operating from 1-5 μm. MagAO was installed in 2012 and successfully completed two commissioning runs in 2012-2013. In April 2014 we had our first science run that was open to the general Magellan community. Observers from Arizona, Carnegie, Australia, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, and Chile took observations in collaboration with the MagAO instrument team. Here we describe the MagAO instrument, describe our on-sky performance, and report our status as of summer 2014.
KW - ExAO
KW - Exoplanet
KW - Extrasolar planet
KW - Extreme adaptive optics
KW - Instrumen- tation
KW - MagAO
KW - Magellan adaptive optics
KW - Visible-light AO
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2057048
DO - 10.1117/12.2057048
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84922728883
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Adaptive Optics Systems IV
A2 - Veran, Jean-Pierre
A2 - Marchetti, Enrico
A2 - Close, Laird M.
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 22 June 2014 through 27 June 2014
ER -