MagAO-X is an entirely new "extreme" adaptive optics system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope, funded by the NSF MRI program starting in Sep 2016. The key science goal of MagAO-X is high-contrast imaging of accreting protoplanets at Hα. With 2040 actuators operating at up to 3630 Hz, MagAO-X will deliver high Strehls (>70%), high resolution (19 mas), and high contrast (<1×10−4) at Hα (656 nm). We present an overview of the MagAO-X system, review the system design, and discuss the current project status.
@article{arxiv.1807.04315,
title = {MagAO-X: project status and first laboratory results},
author = {Jared R. Males and Laird M. Close and Kelsey Miller and Lauren Schatz and David Doelman and Jennifer Lumbres and Frans Snik and Alex Rodack and Justin Knight and Kyle Van Gorkom and Joseph D. Long and Alex Hedglen and Maggie Kautz and Nemanja Jovanovic and Katie Morzinski and Olivier Guyon and Ewan Douglas and Katherine B. Follette and Julien Lozi and Chris Bohlman and Olivier Durney and Victor Gasho and Phil Hinz and Michael Ireland and Madison Jean and Christoph Keller and Matt Kenworthy and Ben Mazin and Jamison Noenickx and Dan Alfred and Kevin Perez and Anna Sanchez and Corwynn Sauve and Alycia Weinberger and Al Conrad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04315},
year = {2018}
}
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Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018