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The final design of GMagAO-X: high-contrast imaging at first-light of the GMT
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +13
GMagAO-X will be the first-light high-contrast imager on the 25 m Giant Magellan Telescope. The driving science case for GMagAO-X is characterization of the atmospheres of nearby r…
Optical design and polarimetric performance of a SmallSat UV polarimeter to study interstellar dust: PUFFINS
Ramya M Anche, Hyukmo Kang, Kyle Van Gorkom +19
The Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features in INterStellar dust (PUFFINS) is a SmallSat mission concept designed to obtain ultraviolet (UV) spectropolarimetric observation…
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…
High-Contrast Imaging at First-Light of the GMT: The Preliminary Design of GMagAO-X
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +15
We present the preliminary design of GMagAO-X, the first-light high-contrast imager planned for the Giant Magellan Telescope. GMagAO-X will realize the revolutionary increase in sp…
MagAO-X: Commissioning Results and Status of Ongoing Upgrades
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +20
MagAO-X is the coronagraphic extreme adaptive optics system for the 6.5 m Magellan Clay Telescope. We report the results of commissioning the first phase of MagAO-X. Components now…
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…
The Optical and Mechanical Design for the 21,000 Actuator ExAO System for the Giant Magellan Telescope: GMagAO-X
Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Olivier Durney +9
GMagAO-X is the near first light ExAO coronagraphic instrument for the 25.4m GMT. It is designed for a slot on the folded port of the GMT. To meet the strict ExAO fitting and servo…
The conceptual design of GMagAO-X: visible wavelength high contrast imaging with GMT
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert +10
We present the conceptual design of GMagAO-X, an extreme adaptive optics system for the 25 m Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). We are developing GMagAO-X to be available at or shortl…
MagAO-X: current status and plans for Phase II
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Sebastiaan Haffert +15
We present a status update for MagAO-X, a 2000 actuator, 3.6 kHz adaptive optics and coronagraph system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope. MagAO-X is optimized for high contras…
The Versatile CubeSat Telescope: Going to Large Apertures in Small Spacecraft
Jaren N. Ashcraft, Ewan S. Douglas, Daewook Kim +10
The design of a CubeSat telescope for academic research purposes must balance complicated optical and structural designs with cost to maximize performance in extreme environments.…
Development of the Arizona Robotic Telescope Network
Benjamin J. Weiner, David Sand, Paul Gabor +9
The Arizona Robotic Telescope Network (ARTN) project is a long term effort to develop a system of telescopes to carry out a flexible program of PI observing, survey projects, and t…
MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results
Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Kelsey Miller +32
MagAO-X is an entirely new "extreme" adaptive optics system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope, funded by the NSF MRI program starting in Sep 2016. The key science goal of MagAO…
Optical and mechanical design of the extreme AO coronagraphic instrument MagAO-X
Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Olivier Durney +9
Here we review the current optical mechanical design of MagAO-X. The project is post-PDR and has finished the design phase. The design presented here is the baseline to which all t…
ARGOS at the LBT. Binocular laser guided ground layer adaptive optics
S. Rabien, R. Angel, L. Barl +48
Having completed its commissioning phase, the Advanced Rayleigh guided Ground-layer adaptive Optics System (ARGOS) facility is coming online for scientific observations at the Larg…
Status Update and Closed-Loop Performance of the Magellan Adaptive Optics VisAO Camera
Derek Kopon, Laird M. Close, Jared Males +3
We present laboratory results of the closed-loop performance of the Magellan Adaptive Optics (AO) Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM), pyramid wavefront sensor (PWFS), and VisAO visibl…
Design, implementation, and on-sky performance of an advanced apochromatic triplet atmospheric dispersion corrector for the Magellan adaptive optics system and VisAO camera
Derek Kopon, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males +1
We present the novel design, laboratory verification, and on-sky performance of our advanced triplet atmospheric dispersion corrector (ADC), an important component of the Magellan…
The Magellan Adaptive Secondary VisAO Camera: Diffraction- Limited Broadband Visible Imaging and 20mas Fiber Array IFS
Derek Kopon, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males +2
The Magellan Adaptive Secondary AO system, scheduled for first light in the fall of 2011, will be able to simultaneously perform diffraction limited AO science in both the mid-IR,…
An Advanced Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: The Magellan Visible AO Camera
Derek Kopon, Laird M. Close, Victor Gasho
In addition to the BLINC/MIRAC IR science instruments, the Magellan adaptive secondary AO system will have an EEV CCD47 that can be used both for visible AO science and as a wide-f…
Enabling Technologies for Visible Adaptive Optics: The Magellan Adaptive Secondary VisAO Camera
Derek Kopon, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +1
Since its beginnings, diffraction-limited ground-based adaptive optics (AO) imaging has been limited to wavelengths in the near IR (λ > 1 micron) and longer. Visible AO (λ < 1 micr…