Advanced Wavefront Sensing Techniques for Next Generation Adaptive Optics Systems

加拿大已承诺提供资金，并且是30米望远镜的主要合作伙伴。完成后，TMT将迎来一个令人兴奋的光学和近红外天文学新时代。为了充分利用TMT，我们需要采用自适应光学（AO）系统来补偿大气中的湍流。TMT上的AO应该允许我们拍摄高分辨率图像和积分场光谱，从太阳系中的小行星，到其他恒星周围的行星，到围绕银河系中心黑洞运行的恒星，到在其他星系引力势中移动的恒星，到数十亿光年外的星系，因为它们存在于星星形成的高峰时期，以及早期宇宙中的“第一道光”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.