HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Enabling high resolution visible AO at the W.M. Keck Observatory
January 2023 • Eduardo Marín, Peter Wizinowich, Maxwell A. Millar‐Blanchaer, Eliad Peretz, Sam Ragland, Marc-André Boucher, Jason Chin, Guillaume Filon, J. Fowler, …
The W. M. Keck Observatory has generated an observatory wide strategic plan for 2035. This plan has identified visible Adaptive Optics (AO) as an attractive science path for the observatory. Given the 10-meter aperture of the Keck telescopes, a visible AO system can achieve extremely high spatial resolutions. These high resolutions will be comparable to that of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) in the infrared, which can lead to synergistic observations between the observatories. To demonstrate the feasibility of …