ULTIMATE-Subaru: GLAO preliminary design overview

Yosuke Minowa*, Yoshito Ono, Yoko Tanaka, Hiroshige Yoshida, Koki Terao, Yusei Koyama, Sadman Ali, Ichi Tanaka, Takashi Hattori, Hirofumi Okita, Yutaka Hayano, Shin Oya, Kentaro Motohara, Kenshi Yanagisawa, Michitoshi Yoshida, Masayuki Akiyama, Tadayuki Kodama, Hajime Ogane, Masahiro Konishi, Noelia Martinez ReyNicholas Herrald, Céline D'Orgeville, François Rigaut, Israel Vaughn, David Chandler, Dionne Haynes, Warrick Schofield, Shiang Yu Wang, Chi Yi Chou, Masahiko Kimura

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Abstract

ULTIMATE-Subaru is a next facility instrumentation program of the Subaru Telescope. The goal of this project is to extend the wide-field capability of the Subaru telescope to near-infrared (NIR) wavelength, by developing a wide-field ground-layer adaptive optics (GLAO) system and wide-field NIR instruments. The GLAO system will uniformly improve the image quality up to 20-arcmin field of view in diameter by correcting for the ground-layer turbulence. The expected image quality after the GLAO correction is FWHM ∼ 0′′.2 in K-band under moderate seeing conditions. In this presentation, we present preliminary design overview of the GLAO system at the Cassegrain focus, which consist of an adaptive secondary mirror, wavefront sensor unit, a laser guide star facility, and control system. We also present the prototyping activities to validate the selected design of the GLAO system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdaptive Optics Systems VIII
EditorsLaura Schreiber, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet
PublisherSPIE
Volume12185
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653511
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventAdaptive Optics Systems VIII 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 17 Jul 202222 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12185
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceAdaptive Optics Systems VIII 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period17/07/2222/07/22

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