Prospects for the GLAS Rayleigh laser beacon on the 4.2-m WHT

René Rutten; Maarten Blanken; Richard McDermid; Thomas Gregory; Paul Jolley; Tim Morris; Richard Myers; Johan Pragt; Ton Schoenmaker; Remko Stuik; Gordon Talbot

doi:10.1016/j.newar.2005.10.017

Prospects for the GLAS Rayleigh laser beacon on the 4.2-m WHT

René Rutten^*, Maarten Blanken, Richard McDermid, Thomas Gregory, Paul Jolley, Tim Morris, Richard Myers, Johan Pragt, Ton Schoenmaker, Remko Stuik, Gordon Talbot

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The scientific exploitation of adaptive optics (AO) with natural guide stars is severely constrained by the limited presence of bright guide stars for wavefront sensing. Use of a laser beam as an alternative means to provide a source for wavefront sensing has the potential of drastically improving the sky coverage for AO. For this reason at the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope a project was started to develop a Rayleigh laser beacon to work together with the existing NAOMI adaptive optics instrumentation and the OASIS integral field spectrograph. This paper presents the rationale for this development, highlights some of the technical aspects, and gives some expected performance measures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	632-638
Number of pages	7
Journal	New Astronomy Reviews
Volume	49
Issue number	10-12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2005.10.017
Publication status	Published - Jan 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Adaptive optics
Rayleigh laser guide stars

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Prospects for the GLAS Rayleigh laser beacon on the 4.2-m WHT. / Rutten, René; Blanken, Maarten; McDermid, Richard; Gregory, Thomas; Jolley, Paul; Morris, Tim; Myers, Richard; Pragt, Johan; Schoenmaker, Ton; Stuik, Remko; Talbot, Gordon.

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