Integration and Testing of a Sodium Beacon AO System for Astronomy

天文学钠信标 AO 系统的集成和测试

• 批准号: 9731169
• 负责人: Edward Kibblewhite
• 金额: $ 116.18万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-04-15 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9731169&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integration; Testing; Sodium; Beacon; AO

9731169 Kibblewhite An adaptive optics system and laser guide-star will be integrated with the 3.5 meter telescope of the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) at Apache Point, NM. Many of the components of the system have been developed under earlier grants. Performance of these components will be optimized for use in the proposed system. Field tests will be carried out with the dual YAG, sum frequency. laser to optimize the size and brightness of the beacon generated in the mesospheric sodium layer. The laser is expected to generate a sub-arcsecond beacon as bright as a 7.5 magnitude star in the V band. The laser and a beam director will be integrated with the ARC telescope, the adaptive optical system, wavefront sensor, H band infrared camera, and telescope control computers. ***

小行星9731169 自适应光学系统和激光导星将与位于新墨西哥州阿帕奇角的天体物理研究联合会（ARC）的3.5米望远镜集成。 该系统的许多组成部分是在以前的赠款下开发的。 这些组件的性能将优化，以便在拟议系统中使用。 现场测试将使用双YAG和频进行。激光，以优化在中间层钠层中产生的信标的大小和亮度。 该激光器预计将产生一个亚弧秒信标，亮度相当于V波段的7.5等星星。 激光器和光束定向器将与ARC望远镜、自适应光学系统、波前传感器、H波段红外相机和望远镜控制计算机集成在一起。 ***