Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system review - I. Design, trade-offs and integration

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2014

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Rigaut, Francois
Neichel, Benoit
Boccas, Maxime
d'Orgeville, Celine
Vidal, Fabrice
van Dam, Marcos Alejandro
Arriagada, Gustavo
Fesquet, Vincent
Gausachs, Gaston
Rambold, William N.

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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The Gemini multiconjugate adaptive optics system (GeMS) at the Gemini South telescope in Cerro Pachón is the first sodium-based multilaser guide star (LGS) adaptive optics system. It uses five LGSs and two deformable mirrors to measure and compensate for

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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