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<title>Field tests of the Wavefront Control Experiment</title>

1994; SPIE; Volume: 2201; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.176024

1996-756X

Walter J. Wild, E. J. Kibblewhite, Fang Shi, Barbara Carter, Gary Kelderhouse, R. Vuilleumier, Herbert L. Manning,

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

The Wavefront Control Experiment is a high temporal bandwidth visible wavelength adaptive optics system on loan at the University of Chicago by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization for astronomical research. In the last year numerous laboratory tests have been conducted with the WCE. The system will soon be installed in a coude laboratory associated with a Ritchey-Cretien 40' telescope at Yerkes Observatory. A brief overview is given of the WCE system, our recent laboratory tests with different matrix reconstructors, the 40' telescope and coude beam optics, and future plans for the instrument. Our scientific plans for the WCE include monitoring the atmosphere of Jupiter prior to and after the projected impact by comet Shoemaker-Levy in July 1994, and to implement a long term program to do high resolution single-mode fiber feed spectroscopy for asteroseismology and extra-solar planetary detection, via radial velocity determinations, of bright stars.