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Design and performance of the PALM-3000 3.5 kHz upgrade
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Jet Propulsion Lab
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California Institute of Technology
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Abstract
PALM-3000 (P3K), the second-generation adaptive optics (AO) instrument for the 5.1 meter Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory, underwent a significant upgrade to its wavefront sensor (WFS) arm and real-time control (RTC) system in late 2019. Main features of this upgrade include an EMCCD WFS camera capable of 3.5 kHz framerates and advanced Digital Signal Processor (DSP) boards to replace the aging GPU based real-time control system. With this upgrade P3K is able to maintain a lock on natural guide stars fainter than mV=16. Here we present the design and on-sky re-commissioning results of the upgraded system.
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© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The authors would like to acknowledge the excellent (and patient) support of the Palomar Observatory staff during this instrument upgrade, re-commissioning, and beyond as we worked to understand this new system. This research was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20210106-074923788
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- https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08659 (URL)
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- NASA/JPL/Caltech
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2021-01-06Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Astronomy Department
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 11448