Commissioning camera for the Gran Telescopio Canarias

Salvador Cuevas; Carlos Espejo; Beatriz Sanchez; Ruben Flores-Meza; Gerardo Lara; Alejandro Farah Simon; Javier Godoy; Oscar Chapa; Carlos Tejada; Francisco J. Cobos; Fernando Garfias; Vicente Bringas; Armando Chavoya; Gustavo Anguiano; Sadot Arciniega; Ariel Dorantes; Jose Luis Gonzalez; Juan Manuel Montoya; Rafael Toral; Hugo Hernandez; Roberto Nava; Nicholas Devaney; Javier Castro; Luis Cavaller

doi:10.1117/12.459872

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30 January 2003 Commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias

Salvador Cuevas, Carlos Espejo, Beatriz Sanchez, Ruben Flores-Meza, Gerardo Lara, Alejandro Farah Simon, Javier Godoy, Oscar Chapa, Carlos Tejada, Francisco J. Cobos, Fernando Garfias, Vicente Bringas, Armando Chavoya, Gustavo Anguiano, Sadot Arciniega, Ariel Dorantes, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Juan Manuel Montoya, Rafael Toral, Hugo Hernandez, Roberto Nava, Nicholas Devaney, Javier Castro, Luis Cavaller

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Proceedings Volume 4840, Future Giant Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459872
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

During the GTC integration phase, the Commissioning Instrument (CI) will be a diagnostic tool for performance verification. The CI features four operation modes-imaging, pupil imaging, Curvature WFS, and high resolution Shack-Hartmann WFS. After the GTC Commissioning we also plan to install a Pyramid WFS. This instrument can therefore serve as a test bench for comparing co-phasing methods for ELTs on a real segmented telescope. In this paper we made a general instrument overview.

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Salvador Cuevas, Carlos Espejo, Beatriz Sanchez, Ruben Flores-Meza, Gerardo Lara, Alejandro Farah Simon, Javier Godoy, Oscar Chapa, Carlos Tejada, Francisco J. Cobos, Fernando Garfias, Vicente Bringas, Armando Chavoya, Gustavo Anguiano, Sadot Arciniega, Ariel Dorantes, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Juan Manuel Montoya, Rafael Toral, Hugo Hernandez, Roberto Nava, Nicholas Devaney, Javier Castro, and Luis Cavaller "Commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias", Proc. SPIE 4840, Future Giant Telescopes, (30 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459872

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