India-TMT, along with industry partner Larsen and Toubro (L&T) in Coimbatore, have successfully manufactured and assembled the first Segment Support Assembly for TMT production.
TMT volunteers participated in the outreach event, offering activities on exoplanets, telescopic observations and even a virtual reality journey through the planned TMT observatory.
Rendering of WFOS standing on one of the TMT lateral Nasmyth platforms. Light from the TMT Tertiary Mirror (M3) comes from the left into the WFOS Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector, which serves as the entrance window for the instrument.
Section view of the WFOS from the Backside of the Instrument. The image shows details of the structure (design by Caltech, US and analyzed by SJTU, China), the Acquisition, Guiding, and Wavefront Sensor (USTC, China), the slitmask exchanger (NAOJ, Japan) and calibration system (ITCC, India).
From left: India-TMT Coordination Center (ITCC) engineers Alikhan Basheer and S. Sriram; Coherent expediter Scott Kelly; Glen Cole (TMT); Coherent engineer and management Lou Marchetti and Michael Orr in front of the loading truck prepared to leave for TMT’s warehouse.
On-site support and training program held at Coherent facility - Glen Cole, S. Sriram and Alikhan Basheer take part in the learning program about the mirror polishing, in which mirror blanks are converted into roundels meeting all necessary requirements.
The US Extremely Large Telescope Program illustration
Artist’s impression of the TMT with the Milky Way in the background.
Rendering of the coating chamber for TMT’s Secondary and Tertiary mirrors.
TMT Segment Support Assembly (SSA) below hexagonal glass segment. SSAs will hold in place each one of TMT 492 primary mirror segments.
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.
