On-sky results of Raven, a MOAO science demonstrator at Subaru Telescope

Olivier Lardière, Yoshito Ono, Dave Andersen, Colin Bradley, Célia Blain, Tim Davidge, Darryl Gamroth, Benjamin Gerard, Kate Jackson, Masen Lamb, Reston Nash, Matthias Rosensteiner, Kim Venn, Maaike Van Kooten, Jean Pierre Véran, Carlos Correia, Shin Oya, Yutaka Hayano, Hiroshi Terada, Masayuki AkiyamaGenki Suzuki, Malte Schramm

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Abstract

Raven is a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics science demonstrator which has been used on-sky at Subaru telescope from May 2014 to July 2015. Raven has been developed at the University of Victoria AO Lab, in partnership with NRC, NAOJ and Tohoku University. Raven includes three open loop WFSs, a central laser guide star WFS, and two science pick-off arms feeding light to the Subaru IRCS spectrograph. Raven supports different AO modes: SCAO, open-loop GLAO and MOAO. This paper gives an overview of the instrument design, compares the on-sky performance of the different AO modes and presents some of the science results achieved with MOAO.

Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event4th Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2015 - Lake Arrowhead, United States
Duration: 2015 Oct 262015 Oct 30

Other

Other4th Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLake Arrowhead
Period15/10/2615/10/30

Keywords

  • First light
  • Infrared spectroscopy
  • Multi-Object adaptive optics
  • Subaru telescope
  • Tomography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Space and Planetary Science
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Mechanical Engineering

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