3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
On-sky capabilities and performance of the Keck All Sky Precision Adaptive Optics system
Avinash Surendran, Maxwell Service, Jacques R. Delorme +21
The Keck All Sky Precision Adaptive optics (KAPA) project upgrades the Keck I adaptive optics system to enable laser tomography using a four laser guide star (LGS) asterism. KAPA i…
astro-ph.IM2026
Slow focus sensor for the Keck I laser guide star adaptive optics system using focal plane wavefront sensing
Rafael M. Salgueiro, Carlos M. Correia, Benoit Neichel +7
Laser guide stars (LGSs) have been deployed for the last 20-30 years in ground-based astronomical telescopes to overcome the limited sky coverage of classical adaptive optics (AO)…
astro-ph.IM2025
Performance Simulations for Kola: Achieving High-Resolution, Visible-Light AO Correction Over a 1 Arcminute Field
Brianna Peck, Jessica R. Lu, Lianqi Wang +8
We present performance simulations for a proposed visible-light, multi-conjugate adaptive optics system for the 10-meter W. M. Keck I telescope that aims to deliver near diffractio…