2 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Facility integration of the NASA IRTF adaptive secondary mirror
Ellen Lee, Mark Chun, Michael Connelley +12
IRTF-ASM-1 has been functioning well since its first light in 2024. This adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) was primarily developed to be an on-sky demonstration of the new hybrid var…
astro-ph.IM2026
Progress report on the integration of the IRTF adaptive secondary mirror
Ellen Lee, Mark Chun, Ruihan Zhang +13
IRTF-ASM-1 is the first on-sky adaptive secondary mirror using the hybrid variable reluctance (HVR) actuators developed by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Resea…