Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system

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Title: Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system

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The Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics (AO) subsystem was designed specifically to facilitate high-contrast imaging. We give a definitive description of the system’s algorithms and technologies as built. Ultimately, the error budget indicates that for all targets and atmospheric conditions AO bandwidth error is the largest term.

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Poyneer, Lisa A. ^[1]; Palmer, David W. ^[1]; Macintosh, Bruce ^[2]; Savransky, Dmitry ^[3]; Sadakuni, Naru ^[4]; Thomas, Sandrine ^[5]; Véran, Jean-Pierre ^[6]; Follette, Katherine B. ^[2]; Greenbaum, Alexandra Z. ^[7]; Mark Ammons, S. ^[1]; Bailey, Vanessa P. ^[2]; Bauman, Brian ^[1]; Cardwell, Andrew ^[8]; Dillon, Daren ^[9]; Gavel, Donald ^[9]; Hartung, Markus ^[8]; Hibon, Pascale ^[8]; Perrin, Marshall D. ^[10]; Rantakyrö, Fredrik T. ^[8]; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^[10] more »

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
NASA/Armstrong Flight Research Center, Palmdale, CA (United States). Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, Universities Space Research Association
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Tucson, AZ (United States)
National Research Council of Canada Herzberg, Victoria BC (Canada)
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy
Gemini Observatory, La Serena (Chile)
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). University of California Observatories
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2016-01-07

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1240924

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1234177

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-677288
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6935; APOPAI

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Applied Optics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6935

Publisher:: Optical Society of America (OSA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUMM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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                    Poyneer, Lisa A., Palmer, David W., Macintosh, Bruce, Savransky, Dmitry, Sadakuni, Naru, Thomas, Sandrine, Véran, Jean-Pierre, Follette, Katherine B., Greenbaum, Alexandra Z., Mark Ammons, S., Bailey, Vanessa P., Bauman, Brian, Cardwell, Andrew, Dillon, Daren, Gavel, Donald, Hartung, Markus, Hibon, Pascale, Perrin, Marshall D., Rantakyrö, Fredrik T., Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, and Wang, Jason J. Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Poyneer, Lisa A., Palmer, David W., Macintosh, Bruce, Savransky, Dmitry, Sadakuni, Naru, Thomas, Sandrine, Véran, Jean-Pierre, Follette, Katherine B., Greenbaum, Alexandra Z., Mark Ammons, S., Bailey, Vanessa P., Bauman, Brian, Cardwell, Andrew, Dillon, Daren, Gavel, Donald, Hartung, Markus, Hibon, Pascale, Perrin, Marshall D., Rantakyrö, Fredrik T., Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, & Wang, Jason J. Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system.  United States.  doi:10.1364/AO.55.000323.

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                    Poyneer, Lisa A., Palmer, David W., Macintosh, Bruce, Savransky, Dmitry, Sadakuni, Naru, Thomas, Sandrine, Véran, Jean-Pierre, Follette, Katherine B., Greenbaum, Alexandra Z., Mark Ammons, S., Bailey, Vanessa P., Bauman, Brian, Cardwell, Andrew, Dillon, Daren, Gavel, Donald, Hartung, Markus, Hibon, Pascale, Perrin, Marshall D., Rantakyrö, Fredrik T., Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, and Wang, Jason J. Thu .  
        "Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system".  United States.  doi:10.1364/AO.55.000323.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240924.

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@article{osti_1240924,

  title        = {Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics system},

  author       = {Poyneer, Lisa A. and Palmer, David W. and Macintosh, Bruce and Savransky, Dmitry and Sadakuni, Naru and Thomas, Sandrine and Véran, Jean-Pierre and Follette, Katherine B. and Greenbaum, Alexandra Z. and Mark Ammons, S. and Bailey, Vanessa P. and Bauman, Brian and Cardwell, Andrew and Dillon, Daren and Gavel, Donald and Hartung, Markus and Hibon, Pascale and Perrin, Marshall D. and Rantakyrö, Fredrik T. and Sivaramakrishnan, Anand and Wang, Jason J.},

  abstractNote = {The Gemini Planet Imager’s adaptive optics (AO) subsystem was designed specifically to facilitate high-contrast imaging. We give a definitive description of the system’s algorithms and technologies as built. Ultimately, the error budget indicates that for all targets and atmospheric conditions AO bandwidth error is the largest term.},

  doi          = {10.1364/AO.55.000323},

  journal      = {Applied Optics},

  number       = 2,

  volume       = 55,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2016},

  month        = {1}

}

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