4 papers
Gemini North Adaptive Optics (GNAO) facility overview and status updates
Gaetano Sivo, Julia Scharwächter, Manuel Lazo +54
The Gemini North Adaptive Optics (GNAO) facility is the upcoming AO facility for Gemini North providing a state-of-the-art AO system for surveys and time domain science in the era…
Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system review II: Commissioning, operation and overall performance
Benoit Neichel, François Rigaut, Fabrice Vidal +30
The Gemini Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics System - GeMS, a facility instrument mounted on the Gemini South telescope, delivers a uniform, near diffraction limited images at near i…
Gems first science results
Benoit Neichel, Fabrice Vidal, Francois Rigaut +19
After 101 nights of commissioning, the Gemini MCAO system (GeMS) started science operations in December 2012. After a brief reminder on GeMS specificities, we describe the overall…
Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system review I: Design, trade-offs and integration
Francois Rigaut, Benoit Neichel, Maxime Boccas +27
The Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System (GeMS) at the Gemini South telescope in Cerro Pach{ó}n is the first sodium-based multi-Laser Guide Star (LGS) adaptive optics syst…