TY - CONF
T1 - GeMS, the path toward AO facility
AU - Garrel, Vincent
AU - Sivo, Gaetano
AU - Marin, Eduardo
AU - Trujillo, Chadwick
AU - Damele, Rodrigo Carrasco
AU - Neichel, Benoit
AU - Van Dam, Marcos
AU - Ammons, Mark
AU - Rigaut, Francois
AU - Diaz, Ruben
AU - Schirmer, Mischa
AU - Gimeno, German
AU - Hibon, Pascale
AU - Leboulleux, Lucie
AU - Montes, Vanessa
AU - Lazo, Manuel
AU - Rambold, William
AU - Gigoux, Pedro
AU - Galvez, Ramon
AU - Moreno, Cristian
AU - Araujo-Hauck, Constanza
AU - Parga, Tomislav Vucina
AU - Donahue, Jeff
AU - Gausachs, Gaston
AU - Lopez, Ariel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the international Gemini partnership funding agencies, which include the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Canadian National Research Council, the Chilean Comisi?n Nacional de Investigaci?n Cientifica y Tecnol?gica, the Australian Research Council, the Argentinean Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y T?cnicas, and the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnol?gico CNPq. The Gemini observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. The NSF also serves as the executive agency for the international partnership.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - GeMS, the Gemini South MCAO System, has now been in regular operation since mid-2013 with the imager instrument GSAOI. We review the performance obtained during this past year as well as some of its current limitations. While in operation, GeMS is still evolving to push them back and is currently in the path of receiving two major upgrades which will allow new exciting science cases: a new natural guide star wavefront sensor called NGS2 and a replacement of the current 50W laser. We are also actively moving along the path of further deeper integration with the future AO-fed instruments, we present our first preliminary results of astrometric and spectrometric calibrations with diverse Gemini instruments using an internal calibration source. We finally report our efforts to make GeMS a more robust instrument with the integration of a vibration rejection feature and a more user-friendly AO system as well with advanced gain optimization automatization.
AB - GeMS, the Gemini South MCAO System, has now been in regular operation since mid-2013 with the imager instrument GSAOI. We review the performance obtained during this past year as well as some of its current limitations. While in operation, GeMS is still evolving to push them back and is currently in the path of receiving two major upgrades which will allow new exciting science cases: a new natural guide star wavefront sensor called NGS2 and a replacement of the current 50W laser. We are also actively moving along the path of further deeper integration with the future AO-fed instruments, we present our first preliminary results of astrometric and spectrometric calibrations with diverse Gemini instruments using an internal calibration source. We finally report our efforts to make GeMS a more robust instrument with the integration of a vibration rejection feature and a more user-friendly AO system as well with advanced gain optimization automatization.
KW - Laser
KW - MCAO instrument
KW - Pathfinder
KW - Wavefront sensors
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U2 - 10.20353/K3T4CP1131639
DO - 10.20353/K3T4CP1131639
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84994527622
T2 - 4th Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2015
Y2 - 26 October 2015 through 30 October 2015
ER -