Artist rendering of the completed Thirty Meter Telescope during nighttime deploying lasers for Adaptive Optics.
The Thirty Meter Telescope is shown at a very low elevation angle. The segmented primary mirror reflects the convex secondary mirror. The tertiary mirror in the center of the primary mirror is oriented to send light to the Wide Field Optical Spectrograph, the gray structure located on the right side of the image. The left and right instrument platforms are seen and the dark blue adaptive optics enclosure is seen on the upper left on the instrument support structure.
The US-ELTP group picture in the Seattle Convention Center for AAS 241 in Seattle, Washington.
TMT and US-ELTP attendees at US-ELTP's booth at the 240th annual American Astronomical Society conference.
The US Extremely Large Telescope Program illustration
This Figure shows the various activities involved in the maintenance and cleaning of TMT optics, with their duration and the number of personnel allocated. This is a preliminary allocation which will be updated as the workflows are finalized.
Diagram showing the coordination of the various teams involved in supporting TMT operations over a 24h cycle.
This figure shows the transition from construction to operations through subsystem Fabrication/Integration and Testing (INT), Construction, Assembly, Integration and Verification (CAIV), Science and Operations Commissioning (SOC) and the period of early operations leading to steady-state operations (some acronyms are used to denote different levels of reviews: Pre-Shipment Review (PSR), Site Acceptance Review (SAR), Final Acceptance Review (FAR) and Science Readiness Review (SRR)).
TMT science operations include activities and user services cycling from proposal submission to the preparation and execution of observing programs, and finally process and archive of the data collected at the telescope.
US ELT group picture at the 235th American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu on January 2020, featuring representatives of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO), and the TMT International Observatory (TIO). [ From top left: Amanda Kocz, Director of Communications (GMTO); Rebecca Bernstein, Project Scientist (GMTO); Chris Martin, TIO SAC Member, Caltech Professor; Christophe Dumas, TMT Observatory Scientist & Head of Operations (TIO); Gary Sanders, TMT Project Manager (TIO); Mike Bolte, TIO Board of Directors, UCSC Professor; Sandra Dawson, Manager Hawaii Community Affairs (TIO); Fengchuan Liu, TMT Deputy Project Manager (TIO); Warren Skidmore, Instrumentation System Scientist (TIO); Pat McCarthy, Director NSF National OIR Astronomy Research Laboratory (AURA); Mark Dickinson, US-ELT Program Scientist (AURA); Taft Armandroff, Vice-Chair GMTO Board of Directors; Heidy Kelman, Mechanical Design Engineer (GMTO); Jim Fanson, GMT Project Manager (GMTO); Sydney Wolff, US-ELT Program Director; Caty Pilachowski, TIO Board of Directors (AURA); Gordon Squires, Head Communication & Vice President External Affairs (TIO) ]
Group picture of TMT Science Forum 2019, held on the campus of Xiamen University in China, November 2019.
