Bibcode
Hibon, P.; Garrel, Vincent; Neichel, Benoit; Prout, Benjamin; Rigaut, Francois; Koning, Alice; Carrasco, Eleazar R.; Gimeno, German; Pessev, P.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 461, Issue 1, p.507-518
Fecha de publicación:
9
2016
Número de citas
4
Número de citas referidas
3
Descripción
During the commissioning of the Gemini MCAO System (GeMS), we had the
opportunity to obtain data with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph
(GMOS), the most utilized instrument at Gemini South Observatory, in
2012 March and May. Several globular clusters were observed in imaging
mode that allowed us to study the performance of this new and untested
combination. GMOS is a visible instrument, hence pushing MCAO towards
the visible. We report here on the results with the GMOS instruments,
derive photometric performance in term of full width at half-maximum
(FWHM) and throughput. In most of the cases, we obtained an improvement
factor of at least 2 against the natural seeing. This result also
depends on the natural guide star constellation selected for the
observations and we then study the impact of the guide star selection on
the FWHM performance. We also derive a first astrometric analysis
showing that the GeMS+GMOS system provide an absolute astrometric
precision better than 8 mas and a relative astrometric precision lower
than 50 mas.