Performance of Subaru adaptive optics system and the scientific results

Hideki Takami; Naruhisa Takato; Yutaka Hayano; Masanori Iye; Yukiko Kamata; Yosuke Minowa; Tomio Kanzawa; Wolfgang Gaessler

doi:10.1117/12.459239

7 February 2003 Performance of Subaru adaptive optics system and the scientific results

Hideki Takami, Naruhisa Takato, Yutaka Hayano, Masanori Iye, Yukiko Kamata, Yosuke Minowa, Tomio Kanzawa, Wolfgang Gaessler

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Proceedings Volume 4839, Adaptive Optical System Technologies II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459239
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

We present an overview of Subaru Cassegrain adaptive optics system and its performance verified at the engineering run. The system is based on a curvature wavefront sensor with 36-element sub-apertures and a bimorph deformable mirror with identical number of elements. We had the first light in Dec. 2000. The AO system has been in service for two instruments, IRCS; infrared camera and spectrograph, and CIAO; coronagraph imager with adaptive optics. The Strehl ratio at the K band is around 0.30 under 0.4- 0.5 arcsec K-band seeing condition for bright guide stars. The sensitivity of the wavefront sensor is so high that we have significant improvement of image quality even for a faint guide star down to R=18^th magnitude. The measurement of stars in a globular cluster suggests an isoplanatic angle, about 40 arcsec, wider than that expected from the equivalent turbulence layer assumed at the height of 6.5 km. The system has been offered for common use since Apr. 2002. Some scientific results using this AO system are shown in this paper.

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Hideki Takami, Naruhisa Takato, Yutaka Hayano, Masanori Iye, Yukiko Kamata, Yosuke Minowa, Tomio Kanzawa, and Wolfgang Gaessler "Performance of Subaru adaptive optics system and the scientific results", Proc. SPIE 4839, Adaptive Optical System Technologies II, (7 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459239

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