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A Road Map for the Generation of a Near-Infrared Guide Star Catalog for Thirty Meter Telescope Observations

Subramaniam, Annapurni; Simard, Luc; Subramanian, Smitha +5 more

The near-infrared instruments in the upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be assisted by a multi conjugate Adaptive Optics (AO) system. For the efficient operation of the AO system, during observations, a near-infrared guide star catalog which goes as faint as 22 mag in J_Vega band is essential and such a catalog does not exist. A …