Advanced Wavefront Sensing Techniques for Next Generation Adaptive Optics Systems

加拿大已承诺提供资金，是30米望远镜(TMT)的主要合作伙伴。建成后，TMT将迎来一个令人兴奋的光学和近红外天文学新时代。为了最大限度地利用TMT，我们需要结合自适应光学(AO)系统来补偿大气中的湍流。On TMT应该允许我们拍摄从太阳系中的小行星到其他恒星周围的行星，到我们银河系中心围绕黑洞运行的恒星，到在其他星系的引力势中运动的恒星，到数十亿光年外的星系(因为它们存在于恒星形成的顶峰时代)的高分辨率图像和完整的场光谱，以及从早期宇宙的“第一光”物体。

Canada has committed funding and is a major partner of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). When completed, TMT will usher in a new, exciting era of optical and near-infrared astronomy. To make the most of TMT, we will need to incorporate Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to compensate for turbulence in the atmosphere. AO on TMT should allow us to take high resolution images and integral field spectroscopy of everything from asteroids in our solar system, to planets around other stars, to stars orbiting around the black hole in the center of our Galaxy, to stars moving in the gravitational potential of other galaxies, to galaxies billions of light years away as they exist in the era of peak star formation, and to “first-light” objects from the early Universe.