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most citedNFIRAOS First Facility AO System for the Thirty Meter Telescope

51 citations · 177 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2014★ 29 cited

GRACES: Gemini remote access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph through the longest astronomical fiber ever made (Experimental phase completed.)

André-Nicolas Chené, John Pazder, Gregory Barrick +17

The Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDONS Spectrograph has achieved first light of its experimental phase in May 2014. It successfully collected light from the Gemini North telesco…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 51 cited

NFIRAOS First Facility AO System for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Glen Herriot, David Andersen, Jenny Atwood +16

NFIRAOS, the Thirty Meter Telescope's first adaptive optics system is an order 60x60 Multi-Conjugate AO system with two deformable mirrors. Although most observing will use 6 laser…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 33 cited

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Instrument Overview

Anna M. Moore, James E. Larkin, Shelley A. Wright +31

We present an overview of the design of IRIS, an infrared (0.84 - 2.4 micron) integral field spectrograph and imaging camera for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). With extremely lo…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 7 cited

Gemini Planet Imager One Button Approach

Jennifer Dunn, Dan Kerley, Leslie Saddlemyer +9

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is an "extreme" adaptive optics coronagraph system that is now on the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This instrument is composed of three different…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 5 cited

The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: on-instrument wavefront sensors and NFIRAOS interface

David Loop, Vlad Reshetov, Murray Fletcher +10

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a first light client science instrument for the TMT observatory that operates as a client of the NFIRAOS facility multi-conjugate adapti…

astro-ph2006★ 40 cited

FLAMINGOS-2: The Facility Near-Infrared Wide-field Imager & Multi-Object Spectrograph for Gemini

Stephen Eikenberry, Richard Elston, S. Nicholas Raines +24

We report on the design and status of the FLAMINGOS-2 instrument - a fully-cryogenic facility near-infrared imager and multi-object spectrograph for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes.…