Bibcode
Cuevas, Salvador; Sánchez, Beatriz; Bringas, Vicente; Espejo, Carlos; Flores, Rubén; Chapa, Oscar; Lara, Gerardo; Chavoya, Armando; Anguiano, Gustavo; Arciniega, Sadot; Dorantes, Ariel; Gonzalez, José Luis; Montoya, Juan Manuel; Toral, Rafael; Hernández, Hugo; Nava, Roberto; Devaney, Nicholas; Castro, Javier; Cavaller, Lluis; Farah, Alejandro; Godoy, Javier; Cobos, Francisco; Tejada, Carlos; Garfias, Fernando
Referencia bibliográfica
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes. Edited by Stepp, Larry M.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6267, pp. 62670X (2006).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2006
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Descripción
In March 2004, the Commissioning Instrument (CI) for the GTC was
accepted in the site of The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) located in La
Palma Island, Spain. During the GTC integration phase, the CI will be a
diagnostic tool for performance verification. The CI features four
operation modes-imaging, pupil imaging, Curvature Wave-front sensing
(WFS), and high resolution Shack-Hartmann WFS. The imaging mode permits
to qualify the GTC image quality. The Pupil Mode permits estimate the
GTC stray light. The segments figure, alignment and cophasing
verifications are made with both WFS modes. In this work we describe the
Commissioning Instrument and show some tests results obtained during the
site acceptance process at the GTC site.