Modern Optical Design - University of California Observatories现代光学设计-加利福尼亚大学天文台.ppt

2005 December 8 JEN TMT status The Thirty Meter Telescope Jerry Nelson, UCSC 2005 December 8 Contents Lessons of History and Predicting the Future Scientific Potential of TMT TMT Organization TMT conceptual design Overall structure Optical design Primary mirror Segment geometry Segment fabrication Active control Enclosure Adaptive Optics Status Predicting the future Proposed Future Ground Based Telescopes California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) 30 m 20/20 (University of Arizona study) 30 m equivalent Giant Magellan Telescope 20m Euro 50 (Lund University study) 50m OWL (ESO study) 100m (60m) TMT (merger of CELT, GSMT, VLOT) 30m Major Issues (mainly cost) mass production of optics active control adaptive optics structural issues enclosure/ weather protection Science Potential for TMT Increased angular resolution With AO can reach 0.007 arc second resolution (100x improvement) Study morphological details of most distant galaxies (cosmology) Study details for star and planet formation Study stellar evolution in globular clusters Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (black holes) Solar system objects Increased light gathering power With TMT can collect 9x the energy from an object (over Keck) Spectroscopy of most distant objects known Planet searches and their study Scientific Potential Seeing limited observations 0.3-1.0 μm Scale 2.18 mm/arc second (f/15) Wide field of view available: 20 arcminutes Diffraction limited observations 1-25μm, mainly 1-2.5μm Thermal IR possible, but not most important At 1 μm angular resolution of 7 mas Resolution element size: 15μm (at f/15, 1 μm wavelength) Large field of view: 1 arc minute at 1 μm with multi conjugate AO Thirty Meter Telescope TMT is a project to build a 30-m telescope UC and Caltech are partners (CELT) + Canada + AURA Design and prototyping money is ~ here $70M total needed $35 UC+Caltech (CELT) from Moore Foundation Canada contributes $17.5M AURA should contribute $17.5M (highly uncertain) Site