Publications (4)
The Mid-Infrared Instrument for JWST, II: Design and Build
G. S. Wright, David Wright, G. B. Goodson +70
The Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides measurements over the wavelength range 5 to 28.5 microns. MIRI has, within a single 'package',…
Pathfinder first light: alignment, calibration, and commissioning of the LINC-NIRVANA ground-layer adaptive optics subsystem
Derek Kopon, Al Conrad, Carmelo Arcidiacono +15
We present descriptions of the alignment and calibration tests of the Pathfinder, which achieved first light during our 2013 commissioning campaign at the LBT. The full LINC-NIRVAN…
The calibration procedure of the LINC-NIRVANA ground and high layer WFS
Carmelo Arcidiacono, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Valentina Viotto +12
LINC--NIRVANA (LN) is an MCAO module currently mounted on the Rear Bent Gregorian focus of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). It mounts a camera originally designed to realize th…
Laboratory Results and Status Update for Pathfinder at LBT, The LINC-NIRVANA NGS Ground- Layer AO Subsystem
Derek Kopon, Al Conrad, Thomas Bertram +20
The full LINC-NIRVANA instrument will be one of the most complex ground-based astronomical systems ever built. It will consist of multiple subsystems, including two multi-conjugate…