MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system

Katie M. Morzinski; Laird M. Close; Jared R. Males; Derek Kopon; Phil M. Hinz; Simone Esposito; Armando Riccardi; Alfio Puglisi; Enrico Pinna; Runa Briguglio; Marco Xompero; Fernando Quirós-Pacheco; Vanessa Bailey; Katherine B. Follette; T. J. Rodigas; Ya Lin Wu; Carmelo Arcidiacono; Javier Argomedo; Lorenzo Busoni; Tyson Hare; Alan Uomoto; Alycia Weinberger

doi:10.1117/12.2057048

MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system

Katie M. Morzinski, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Derek Kopon, Phil M. Hinz, Simone Esposito, Armando Riccardi, Alfio Puglisi, Enrico Pinna, Runa Briguglio, Marco Xompero, Fernando Quirós-Pacheco, Vanessa Bailey, Katherine B. Follette, T. J. Rodigas, Ya Lin Wu, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Javier Argomedo, Lorenzo Busoni, Tyson HareAlan Uomoto, Alycia Weinberger

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MagAO is the new adaptive optics system with visible-light and infrared science cameras, located on the 6.5-m Magellan "Clay" telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The instrument locks on natural guide stars (NGS) from 0th to 16th R-band magnitude, measures turbulence with a modulating pyramid wavefront sensor binnable from 28×28 to 7×7 subapertures, and uses a 585-actuator adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) to provide at wavefronts to the two science cameras. MagAO is a mutated clone of the similar AO systems at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) at Mt. Graham, Arizona. The high-level AO loop controls up to 378 modes and operates at frame rates up to 1000 Hz. The instrument has two science cameras: VisAO operating from 0.5-1μm and Clio2 operating from 1-5 μm. MagAO was installed in 2012 and successfully completed two commissioning runs in 2012-2013. In April 2014 we had our first science run that was open to the general Magellan community. Observers from Arizona, Carnegie, Australia, Harvard, MIT, Michigan, and Chile took observations in collaboration with the MagAO instrument team. Here we describe the MagAO instrument, describe our on-sky performance, and report our status as of summer 2014.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Adaptive Optics Systems IV
Editors	Jean-Pierre Veran, Enrico Marchetti, Laird M. Close
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9780819496164
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057048
State	Published - 2014
Event	Adaptive Optics Systems IV - Montreal, Canada Duration: Jun 22 2014 → Jun 27 2014

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9148
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Adaptive Optics Systems IV
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	6/22/14 → 6/27/14

Keywords

ExAO
Exoplanet
Extrasolar planet
Extreme adaptive optics
Instrumen- tation
MagAO
Magellan adaptive optics
Visible-light AO

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Morzinski, K. M., Close, L. M., Males, J. R., Kopon, D., Hinz, P. M., Esposito, S., Riccardi, A., Puglisi, A., Pinna, E., Briguglio, R., Xompero, M., Quirós-Pacheco, F., Bailey, V., Follette, K. B., Rodigas, T. J., Wu, Y. L., Arcidiacono, C., Argomedo, J., Busoni, L., ... Weinberger, A. (2014). MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system. In J.-P. Veran, E. Marchetti, & L. M. Close (Eds.), Adaptive Optics Systems IV Article 914804 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9148). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057048

MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system. / Morzinski, Katie M.; Close, Laird M.; Males, Jared R. et al.
Adaptive Optics Systems IV. ed. / Jean-Pierre Veran; Enrico Marchetti; Laird M. Close. SPIE, 2014. 914804 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9148).

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Morzinski, KM, Close, LM, Males, JR, Kopon, D, Hinz, PM, Esposito, S, Riccardi, A, Puglisi, A, Pinna, E, Briguglio, R, Xompero, M, Quirós-Pacheco, F, Bailey, V, Follette, KB, Rodigas, TJ, Wu, YL, Arcidiacono, C, Argomedo, J, Busoni, L, Hare, T, Uomoto, A & Weinberger, A 2014, MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system. in J-P Veran, E Marchetti & LM Close (eds), Adaptive Optics Systems IV., 914804, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9148, SPIE, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, Montreal, Canada, 6/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057048

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