Additional Documents

Export Administration Regulations (EAR)

TMT Foundation Documents

• Detailed Science Case (pdf)
• Science-Based Requirements (pdf)
• Observatory Requirements (pdf)
• Observatory Architecture (pdf)
• Operations Concept (pdf)
• TMT Construction Proposal (pdf)

Primary Mirror Segment (M1) Documents

• Draft Statement of Work for Production of the TMT Primary Mirror Optics (pdf)
  
• M1 Segment Background (pdf)
  
• M1 Optics System Design Requirements Document (pdf)
  
• Segment Blank Specification (pdf)
  
• Finished Segment Specification (pdf)
  
• Polished Segment Drawing (pdf)
  
• Polished Mirror Assembly Drawing (pdf)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-1 Overview (ppt)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-2 System Level Calculations (ppt)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-3 Finite Element Analysis (ppt)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-4 Warping Harness (ppt)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-5 Flexure Design (ppt)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-6 Segment Handling (ppt)
  
• SSA PDR Vol-7 Future Plans (ppt)
  

SPIE Papers Pertaining to M1 Segments

• Advancement of the Segment Support System for the Thirty Meter Telescope Primary Mirror (pdf)
• Primary Mirror Segmentation Studies for the Thirty Meter Telescope (pdf)
• Development of the Primary Mirror Segment Support Assemblies for the Thirty Meter Telescope (doc)

Secondary Mirror System (M2S) Documents

• M2 System Requirements Document (pdf)
• Requirements and Conceptual Design of M2 System (pdf)

SPIE Papers Pertaining to M2

• Performance Prediction of the TMT Tertiary Mirror Support System (pdf)

Tertiary Mirror System (M3S) Documents

• M3 System Requirements Document (pdf)
• Requirements and Conceptual Design of M3 System (pdf)

SPIE Papers Pertaining M3

• Performance Prediction of the TMT Tertiary Mirror Support System (pdf)

SPIE Papers Pertaining M2 & M3

• Control and support of 4-meter class secondary and tertiary mirrors for TMT (pdf)

Subsystem Requirements Document for the Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF) (pdf)

LGSF Design Reports

• LGSF CoDR Report (pdf)
• LGSF Design Requirements (pdf)
• LGSF Overview (SPIE 2008) (pdf)
• LGSF Presentation - GCAR review (pdf)
• LGSF Laser System Design Requirements (pdf)
  

LGSF Conceptual Design Rework (pdf)

SPIE 2006 Papers Pertaining to Instruments and Adaptive Optics

• CASA Concept for HROS (TMT.INS.JOU.06.003) (doc)
  
• Design and Performance of the CASA HROS Concept (TMT.INS.JOU.06.005) (doc)
  
• Design of the TMT mid-infrared echelle: science drivers and design overview (TMT.INS.PRE.06.036) (doc)
  
• Instrument Concepts and Scientific Opportunities for TMT (TMT.INS.JOU.06.002) (doc)
  
• Preliminary optical design for the TMT mid-infrared adaptive optics system and echelle spectrograph (TMT.INS.JOU.06.008) (doc)
• Design tradeoffs for a high spectral resolution mid-infrared echelle spectrograph on the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT.IAO.JOU.06.002) (doc)
• Design of the TMT Mid-Infrared Adaptive Optics System (TMT.AOS.JOU.06.008) (doc)
• The MOAO System for IRMOS (TMT.IAO.JOU.06.001) (doc)
• IRMOS: The near-InfraRed Multi-Object Spectrograph for the TMT (TMT.INS.JOU.06.007) (doc)
• Extreme Adaptive Optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT.AOS.JOU.06.016) (doc)
• Post-Coronagraph Wavefront Sensing for the TMT Planet Formation Imager (TMT.IAO.ICD.06.001) (doc)

SPIE 2008 Papers Pertaining to Instruments and Adaptive Optics

• Early Light TMT Instrumentation (TMT.INS.JOU.08.001) (doc)
• Optical Design for a Wide-Field, Optical Spectrograph for TMT (TMT.INS.JOU.08.002) (doc)
• VPH Grating Technology for the TMT Instrumentation Program (TMT.INS.JOU.07.004) (doc)