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most citedSpatio-angular Minimum-variance Tomographic Controller for Multi-Object Adaptive Optics systems

25 citations · 99 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.IM2018

Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph: Instrument Overview

Suresh Sivanandam, Scott Chapman, Luc Simard +27

The Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph (GIRMOS) is a powerful new instrument being built to facility-class standards for the Gemini telescope. It takes advantage of the late…

astro-ph.IM2018

Automated testing of optical fibres: towards the design of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Fibre Transmission System

Stephanie Monty, Farbod Jahandar, Jooyoung Lee +8

We present the results of an automated fibre optic test bench constructed at the University of Victoria as part of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Fibre Transmission Syst…

astro-ph.IM2018

MSE FiTS: the ultimate multi-fiber optic transmission system

Kim Venn, Darren Erickson, David Crampton +14

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is a next-generation observatory, designed to provide highly multiplexed, multi-object spectroscopy over a wide field of view. The observa…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 24 cited

Using the Multi-Object Adaptive Optics demonstrator RAVEN to observe metal-poor stars in and towards the Galactic Centre

Masen Lamb, Kim Venn, David Andersen +16

The chemical abundances for five metal-poor stars in and towards the Galactic bulge have been determined from H-band infrared spectroscopy taken with the RAVEN multi-object adaptiv…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 18 cited

Multi time-step wave-front reconstruction for tomographic Adaptive-Optics systems

Yoshito H. Ono, Masayuki Akiyama, Shin Oya +5

In tomographic adaptive-optics (AO) systems, errors due to tomographic wave-front reconstruction limit the performance and angular size of the scientific field of view (FoV), where…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 25 cited

Spatio-angular Minimum-variance Tomographic Controller for Multi-Object Adaptive Optics systems

Carlos M. Correia, Kate Jackson, Jean-Pierre Veran +3

Multi-object astronomical adaptive-optics (MOAO) is now a mature wide-field observation mode to enlarge the adaptive-optics-corrected field in a few specific locations over tens of…