Commissioning status of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system

Yutaka Hayano; Hideki Takami; Shin Oya; Masayuki Hattori; Yoshihiko Saito; Makoto Watanabe; Olivier Guyon; Yosuke Minowa; Sebastian E. Egner; Meguru Ito; Vincent Garrel; Stephen Colley; Taras Golota; Masanori Iye

doi:10.1117/12.857567

27 July 2010 Commissioning status of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system

Yutaka Hayano, Hideki Takami, Shin Oya, Masayuki Hattori, Yoshihiko Saito, Makoto Watanabe, Olivier Guyon, Yosuke Minowa, Sebastian E. Egner, Meguru Ito, Vincent Garrel, Stephen Colley, Taras Golota, Masanori Iye

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Proceedings Volume 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II; 77360N (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857567
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The current status of commissioning and recent results in performance of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system is presented. After the first light using natural guide stars with limited configuration of the system in October 2006, we concentrated to complete a final configuration for a natural guide star to serve AO188 to an open use observation. On sky test with full configurations using natural guide star started in August 2008, and opened to a public one month later. We continuously achieved around 0.6 to 0.7 of Strehl ratio at K band using a bright guide star around 9th to 10th magnitude in R band. We found an unexpectedly large wavefront error in our laser launching telescope. The modification to fix this large wavefront error was made and we resumed the characterization of a laser guide star in February 2009. Finally we obtained a round-shaped laser guide star, whose image size is about 1.2 to 1.6 arcsec under the typical seeing condition. We are in the final phase of commissioning. A diffraction limited image by our AO system using a laser guide star will be obtained in the end of 2010. An open use observation with laser guide star system will start in the middle of 2011.

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Yutaka Hayano, Hideki Takami, Shin Oya, Masayuki Hattori, Yoshihiko Saito, Makoto Watanabe, Olivier Guyon, Yosuke Minowa, Sebastian E. Egner, Meguru Ito, Vincent Garrel, Stephen Colley, Taras Golota, and Masanori Iye "Commissioning status of Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system", Proc. SPIE 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II, 77360N (27 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857567

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