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27 August 2024 Keck adaptive secondary mirror overview
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Abstract
The Keck Adaptive Secondary Mirror (KASM) project is planned as a core component of adaptive optics (AO) improvements for the Keck 1 telescope. KASM will provide image quality enhancements to all instrument locations, while also enabling correction of the ground layer turbulence for wide field instruments, and the foundation for a visible light diffraction-limited AO system. KASM is intended to replace the original telescope secondary mirror (M2) and will support both adaptive optics correction and purely passive (seeing-limited) observing modes of operation. The concept for KASM has been developed considering both voice coil and hybrid variable reluctance actuator technology. A metrology and calibration setup for off-sky use has been developed to verify KASM performance both prior to installation and once at the telescope.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Philip M. Hinz, Brad Holden, R. Deno Stelter, Matt Radovan, Aaron Hunter, Maureen Savage, Renate Kupke, Daren Dillon, Jessica Lu, Mark Chun, Peter Wizinowich, Richard Dekany, Antonin Bouchez, and Steph Sallum "Keck adaptive secondary mirror overview", Proc. SPIE 13097, Adaptive Optics Systems IX, 130972O (27 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020800
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KEYWORDS
Adaptive optics

Equipment

Calibration

Telescopes

Adaptive mirrors

Wavefront sensors

Image quality

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