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Latest News from OIR

• Palomar Adaptive Optics + Lucky Cam named one of TIME magazine's 50 Best Inventions of the Year (2007):
  • Link to TIME article

Older News Items

• Triplespec First Light - the Cornell-led, no moving parts, cross-dispersed echelle has successful first run on the 200" telescope (October 2, 2007)
• Low cost MEMs AO testbed locks loop in the Robinson Lab (August 15, 2007)
• Palomar Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics achieves 48% K-band Strehl in superior seeing conditions at Palomar Mountain (A. Bouchez, LGS Team Lead) (July 29, 2007) * COO awarded $1.1M by National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program for systems engineering and development of low-order wavefront sensors for PALM-3000 project (R. Dekany, PI) (Sept 3, 2006)

Quick Links

• COO All Hands Meetings
• NGAO SSC Meeting (June 21, 2006)
• Keck Next Generation Adaptive Optics (NGAO) Twiki

Caltech Instrumentation Notes

#	Title	Format	Owner	Status	Ver.	Date
601	Caltech-TMT IRMOS Feasibility Study Report	.pdf	K. Taylor	Released	7.1	2/28/06
602	An Integrated UV/Optical/NIR Approach to TMT Instrumentation	.doc	R. Dekany	Released	1.0	4/25/06
603	Palomar: PALAO Interface Control Document	.pdf	A. Moore	Draft	2.0	7/7/06
604	OIWFS Development for TMT	.doc	R. Dekany	Released	1.0	5/8/06
605	Palomar LGS flux	.pdf	A. Bouchez	Released	2.1	7/27/06
606	Palomar BTO transmission	.pdf	A. Bouchez	Released	2.0	8/7/06
607	Palomar: Trial run of SWIFT installation	.pdf	A. Moore	Released	1.0	8/2/06
608	Palomar: PALAO optical beam heights	.pdf	A. Moore	Released	1.0	8/2/06
609	Palomar Laser Diagnostics Requirements	.pdf	A. Bouchez	draft	1.0	8/7/06
610	PALM-3000 telemetry requirements	.pdf	A. Bouchez	draft	1.0	8/11/06
611	OIR Project Scope Statement Template	.doc	R. Dekany	Released	1.0	9/29/06
612	PALM-3000 Science Requirements Document (SRD)	.doc	R. Dekany	Released	1.01	3/17/06
613	BTO Off-zenith Calibration	.pdf	A. Bouchez	Released	1.0	10/30/06
614	P3k Scintillation Notes	.pdf	M. Britton	Released	1.0	12/05/06
615	P3K Conjugate Height Selection	.pdf	R. Dekany	Released	1.0	01/26/07
616	PALM-LGS non-common path flexure	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	2.0	3/21/07
617	Laser Automation Computer Requirements	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	1.1	3/12/07
618	Astrometric Considerations for PALM-3000 Woofer/Tweeter Configuration	.xxx	V. Velur
619	Palomar LLT flexure	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	1.0	4/20/07
620	PALM-3000 IRTT Dichroic Optimization	.pdf	R. Dekany	draft	0.3	6/6/07
621	LOWFS Dark Current	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	1.0	6/8/07
622	PALM-3000 optical configuration study	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	1.0	7/15/07
623	PALM-3000 observing scenarios	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	1.0	7/16/07
624	PALM-3000 Instrument Requirements Document	.pdf	R. Dekany	draft	0.6	7/17/07
625	Capability Summary for the 5-meter Hale Telescope	.pdf	R. Dekany	released	1.0	7/27/07
626	PALM-3000 Error Budget Summary (EBS)	.pdf	R. Dekany	draft	0.3	11/9/07
627	PALM-3000 Project Management Plan (PMP)	.pdf	A. Bouchez	released	1.1	11/9/07
628	PALM-3000 Software Requirements Document (SwRD)	.pdf	A. Bouchez	draft	0.4	12/3/07
629	PALM-3000 Instrument Architecture Document (IAD)	.pdf	A. Bouchez	draft	0.4	11/11/07
630	available

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