Abstract

The highly successful AO program at the UH is now planning to expand the curvature technology into higher order correction systems with a unique Vis/IR WFS concept.. Computer simulation have been carried out scaling the current 13 element system now being used at the CFHT on Mauna Kea to a 36 element design. The Vis-IR WFS sensor is expected to increase the performance overall, all as it is used to study young stellar objects that are at many times deeply reddened. An example is HL Tau, in the visible it is around magnitude 14 and at the H band it magnitude 9 or 100 times brighter!

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