Design and performance of the PALM-3000 3.5 kHz upgrade

Meeker, Seth R. and Truong, Tuan N. and Roberts, Jennifer E. and Shelton, J. Chris and Fregoso, S. Felipe and Burruss, Rick S. and Dekany, Richard G. and Wallace, J. Kent and Baker, John W. and Heffner, Carolyn M. and Mawet, Dimitri and Rykoski, Kevin M. and Tesch, Jonathan A. and Vasisht, Gautam (2020) Design and performance of the PALM-3000 3.5 kHz upgrade. In: Adaptive Optics Systems VII. Proceedings of SPIE. No.11448. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 114480W. ISBN 9781510636835. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210106-074923788

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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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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562931	DOI	Article
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08659	arXiv	Discussion Paper

ORCID:

Author	ORCID
Shelton, J. Chris	0000-0001-8982-1654
Dekany, Richard G.	0000-0002-5884-7867
Wallace, J. Kent	0000-0001-5299-6899
Mawet, Dimitri	0000-0002-8895-4735
Vasisht, Gautam	0000-0002-1871-6264

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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.

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Astronomy Department

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NASA/JPL/Caltech	UNSPECIFIED

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Adaptive Optics, Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor, Electron Multiplying CCD, Real-time Control, Digital Signal Processors

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Proceedings of SPIE

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11448

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10.1117/12.2562931

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CaltechAUTHORS:20210106-074923788

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Seth R. Meeker, Tuan N. Truong, Jennifer E. Roberts, J. Chris Shelton, S. Felipe Fregoso, Rick S. Burruss, Richard G. Dekany, J. Kent Wallace, John W. Baker, Carolyn M. Heffner, Dimitry Mawet, Kevin M. Rykoski, Jonathan A. Tesch, and Gautam Vasisht "Design and performance of the PALM-3000 3.5 kHz upgrade", Proc. SPIE 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 114480W (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562931

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