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TMT Science and Instruments

arXiv:0801.3634 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9190-2_47

Abstract

To meet the scientific goals of the Thirty Meter Telescope Project, full diffraction-limited performance is required from the outset and hence the entire observatory is being designed, as a system, to achieve this. The preliminary design phases of the telescope and the first light adaptive optic facility are now approaching completion so that much better predictions of the system performance are possible. The telescope design and instrumentation are summarized in this presentation, with a brief description of some of the scientific programs that are foreseen.

7 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the ESO Workshop "Science with the VLT in the ELT Era", October 2007

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