Conceptual design of the Giant Magellan Telescope Commissioning Camera

Jeffrey D. Crane; Alan Uomoto; Philippe Amram; Sergio R. Augusto; Christoph Birk; Antonio Braulio Neto; Daniel M. Faes; Tyson Hare; Patricio Jones; Claudia Mendes de Oliveira; Stephen A. Shectman; Marco A. F. de Souza

doi:10.1117/12.2560718

13 December 2020 Conceptual design of the Giant Magellan Telescope Commissioning Camera

Jeffrey D. Crane, Alan Uomoto, Philippe Amram, Sergio R. Augusto, Christoph Birk, Antonio Braulio Neto, Daniel M. Faes, Tyson Hare, Patricio Jones, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Stephen A. Shectman, Marco A. F. de Souza

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Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114472J (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560718
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Commissioning Camera (ComCam) is an all-refractive, focal reducing camera intended for the evaluation of telescope performance in both natural seeing and ground layer adaptive optics modes across a six arcminute field of view. As the first purpose-built, large imager for the GMT, it also provides unique public outreach functions and scientific research opportunities by enabling both narrowband and broadband imaging and photometric measurements at wavelengths between 360 and 950 nm. In addition to a discrete set of narrowband and broadband filters, inclusion of a deployable Fabry-Perot etalon will greatly enhance ComCam’s capabilities. With an image scale of 0.06 arcseconds per pixel, ComCam will be able to take full advantage of the GMT’s GLAO-corrected image quality under the best predicted conditions. ComCam has undergone a conceptual design review and is now under development in the preliminary design phase. Instrumental first light will be concurrent with that of the GMT.

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Jeffrey D. Crane, Alan Uomoto, Philippe Amram, Sergio R. Augusto, Christoph Birk, Antonio Braulio Neto, Daniel M. Faes, Tyson Hare, Patricio Jones, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Stephen A. Shectman, and Marco A. F. de Souza "Conceptual design of the Giant Magellan Telescope Commissioning Camera", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114472J (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560718

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