MagAO-X first light

Jared R. Males; Laird M. Close; Olivier Guyon; Alexander D. Hedglen; Kyle Van Gorkom; Joseph D. Long; Maggie Kautz; Jennifer Lumbres; Lauren Schatz; Alexander Rodack; Kelsey Miller; David Doelman; Frans Snik; Steven Bos; Justin M. Knight; Katie Morzinski; Victor Gasho; Christoph Keller; Sebastiaan Haffert; Logan Pearce

doi:10.1117/12.2561682

13 December 2020 MagAO-X first light

Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Alexander D. Hedglen, Kyle Van Gorkom, Joseph D. Long, Maggie Kautz, Jennifer Lumbres, Lauren Schatz, Alexander Rodack, Kelsey Miller, David Doelman, Frans Snik, Steven Bos, Justin M. Knight, Katie Morzinski, Victor Gasho, Christoph Keller, Sebastiaan Haffert, Logan Pearce

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Proceedings Volume 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII; 114484L (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561682
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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MagAO-X is a new “extreme” adaptive optics system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope which began commissioning in December, 2019. MagAO-X is based around a 2040 actuator deformable mirror, controlled by a pyramid wavefront sensor operating at up to 3.6 kHz. When fully optimized, MagAO-X will deliver high Strehls (< 70%), high resolution (19 mas), and high contrast (< 1 × 10⁻⁴) at Hα (656 nm). We present a brief review of the instrument design and operations, and then report on the results of the first-light run.

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Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Alexander D. Hedglen, Kyle Van Gorkom, Joseph D. Long, Maggie Kautz, Jennifer Lumbres, Lauren Schatz, Alexander Rodack, Kelsey Miller, David Doelman, Frans Snik, Steven Bos, Justin M. Knight, Katie Morzinski, Victor Gasho, Christoph Keller, Sebastiaan Haffert, and Logan Pearce "MagAO-X first light", Proc. SPIE 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 114484L (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561682

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