GMT

In The News

• The New Planet Machine (Discover)
• UA Looks Into Space
• Breaking the Mold (SciAm)
• Mirror, Mirror (New York Times)
• Making a Giant Mirror to Scour the Skies
• UA Mirror Lab to Cast First Mirror for World's Largest Telescope

Publications

• Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Project
  (M. Johns, J. R. Angel, S. Shectman, R. Bernstein, D. Fabricant, P. McCarthy, M. Phillips)
  Ground-based Telescopes, ed. J. M. Oschmann, Jr., Proc. SPIE 5489, pp. 441-453 (2004)
  
• 20 and 30 m telescope designs with potential for subsequent incorporation into a track-mounted pair (20/20 or 30/30)
  (Roger Angel, Jim Burge, Johanan L. Codona, Warren Davison and Buddy Martin)
  SPIE Proc. on Future Giant Telescope, eds. J. R. P. Angel and R. Gilmozzi, 4840, Kona, HI, 2002.
  
• Optics for the 20/20 telescope
  (H. M. Martin, J. R. P. Angel, J. H. Burge, S. M. Miller, J. M. Sasian and P. A. Strittmatter)
  SPIE Proc. on Future Giant Telescope, eds. J. R. P. Angel and R. Gilmozzi, 4840, Kona, HI, 2002.
  
• Mechanical concepts for 30 m class telescopes
  (Warren Davison and Roger Angel)
  SPIE Proc. on Future Giant Telescope, eds. J. R. P. Angel and R. Gilmozzi, 4840, Kona, HI, 2002.
  
• Design and Analysis of 20m track mounted and 30m telescopes
  (Warren Davison, Neville Woolf and Roger Angel)
  SPIE Proc. on Future Giant Telescope, eds. J. R. P. Angel and R. Gilmozzi, 4840, Kona, HI, 2002.
  
• Design and Testing of a Dynamic Refocus System for Rayleigh Laser Beacons
  (James A. Georges III, Proteep Mallik, Thomas Stalcup, J. Roger P. Angel, Roland Sarlot)
  SPIE Proc. on Adaptive Optical System Technologies II, eds. Peter L. Wizinowich and Domenico Bonaccini, 4839, Kona, HI, 2002.
  
• Multi-conjugate adaptive optics for a new generation of giant telescopes
  (M. Lloyd-Hart and N. M. Milton)
  Proc. SPIE Conference on Adaptive Optical Systems Technologies II, ed. J. R. P. Angel & R. Gilmozzi, 4840, Waikoloa, 2002
  
• Design and expected performance of the 6.5 m MMT MCAO system
  (M. Lloyd-Hart and N. M. Milton)
  Proc. SPIE Conference on Adaptive Optical Systems Technologies II, ed. P. L Wizinowich & D. Bonaccini, 4839, Waikoloa, 2002
  
• Fundamental limits on isoplanatic correction with multiconjugate adaptive optics
  (M. Lloyd-Hart and N. Mark Milton)
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 20, 1949-1957, 2003