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most citedPhasing the Giant Magellan Telescope: Lab Experiments and First On-sky Demonstration

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

Phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope: Lab Experiments and First On-sky Demonstration

Maggie Y. Kautz, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close +21

The large apertures of the upcoming generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes will enable unprecedented angular resolutions that scale as /D and higher sensitivi…

astro-ph.IM2023

GMagAO-X: A First Light Coronagraphic Adaptive Optics System for the GMT

Maggie Kautz, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +17

GMagAO-X is a visible to NIR extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system that will be used at first light for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). GMagAO-X is designed to deliver diffract…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Giant Magellan Telescope high contrast adaptive optics phasing testbed (p-HCAT): lab tests of segment/petal phasing with a pyramid wavefront sensor and a holographic dispersed fringe sensor (HDFS) in turbulence

Alexander D. Hedglen, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +14

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) design consists of seven circular 8.4-m diameter mirror segments that are separated by large > 30 cm gaps, creating the possibility of fluctuatio…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Holographic Dispersed Fringe Sensors (HDFS): phasing the Giant Magellan Telescope

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Laird M. Close, Alexander D. Hedglen +14

The next generation of Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMT) will have large gaps between the segments either caused by the shadow of the mechanical structure of the secondary m…