A rationale is presented for the use of a relatively low-altitude Rayleigh Laser Guide Star to provide partial adaptive optics correction across a large fraction of the sky on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The scientific motivation is highlighted and supported by model calculations. An overview the technical implementation of the system is presented.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0208151,
title = {Facility class Rayleigh beacon AO system for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope},
author = {R. G. M. Rutten and P. Clark and R. M. Myers and R. W. Wilson and R. G. Bingham and E. Emsellem and T. Gregory and R. A. Humphreys and J. H. Knapen and G. Moretto and S. L. Morris and G. Talbot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0208151},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures, to be published in 2002 SPIE Conference proceedings