Conceptual design of the Giant Magellan Telescope Commissioning Camera

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2020
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Commissioning Camera (ComCam) is an all-refractive, focal reducing camera intended for the evaluation of telescope performance in both natural seeing and ground layer adaptive optics modes across a six arcminute field of view. As the first purpose-built, large imager for the GMT, it also provides unique public outreach functions and scientific research opportunities by enabling both narrowband and broadband imaging and photometric measurements at wavelengths between 360 and 950 nm. In addition to a discrete set of narrowband and broadband filters, inclusion of a deployable Fabry-Perot etalon will greatly enhance ComCam's capabilities. With an image scale of 0.06 arcseconds per pixel, ComCam will be able to take full advantage of the GMT's GLAO-corrected image quality under the best predicted conditions. ComCam has undergone a conceptual design review and is now under development in the preliminary design phase. Instrumental first light will be concurrent with that of the GMT. © 2020 SPIE
  1. Camera
  2. ELT
  3. Etalon
  4. Giant magellan telescope
  5. GMT
  6. Imager
  7. Adaptive optics
  8. Conceptual design
  9. Fabry-Perot interferometers
  10. Optical telescopes
  11. Broad-band filters
  12. Fabry-Perot etalons
  13. Giant magellan telescopes
  14. Ground-layer adaptive optics
  15. Photometric measurements
  16. Preliminary design phase
  17. Scientific researches
  18. Telescope performance
  19. Cameras
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