NAOMI adaptive optics system for the 4.2m William Herschel telescope

Bibcode
2003SPIE.4839..647M
DOI
10.1117/12.459236
Myers, Richard M.; Longmore, Andrew J.; Benn, Chris R.; Buscher, David F.; Clark, Paul; Dipper, Nigel A.; Doble, Nathan; Doel, Andrew P.; Dunlop, Colin N.; Gao, Xiaofeng; Gregory, Thomas; Humphreys, Ronald A.; Ives, Derek J.; Øestensen, Roy; Peacocke, P. T.; Rutten, René G.; Tierney, Chris J.; Vick, Andrew J. A.; Wells, Martyn R.; Wilson, Richard W.; Worswick, Susan P.; Zadrozny, Andrew
Bibliographical reference

Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 647-658 (2003).

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2003
Number of authors
22
IAC number of authors
4
Citations
11
Refereed citations
8
Description
NAOMI (Nasmyth Adaptive Optics for Multi-purpose Instrumentation) is a recently completed and commissioned astronomical facility on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The system is designed to work initially with Natural Guide Stars and also to be upgradeable for use with a single laser guide star. It has been designed to work with both near infrared and optical instrumentation (both imagers and spectrographs). The system uses a linearised segmented adaptive mirror and dual-CCD Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor together with a multiple-DSP real-time processing system. Control system parameters can be updated on-the-fly by monitoring processes and the system can self-optimize its base optical figure to compensate for the optical characteristics of attached scientific instrumentation. The scientific motivation, consequent specification and implementation of NAOMI are described, together with example performance data and information on future upgrades and instrumentation.
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Non-refereed

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