^ 11.011.111.2Hutchins, Shana K. Giant Magellan Telescope to Cast Milestone Fourth Mirror. Texas A&M Today. September 18, 2015 [2015-12-17]. (原始内容存档于2017-10-04). There is special significance to the fourth mirror. It will be the central unit. Without it, the other mirrors would be much more difficult to bring together to function as a single telescope. Also, our baseline plan starts the operations of the GMT with just these four mirrors, which will all have been cast once this one is complete.
^Ketelsen, Dean, GMT polishing at Mirror Lab open house 14 Jan, 2012, 2012-01-15 [2012-04-08], (原始内容存档于2016-06-10), While guests toured the facilities, the Lab staff ran both of our polishing machines on current projects, including this view of final polishing on the first GMT segment.
^Telescope Structure(PDF). GMT Conceptual Design Report. February 2006. p. 7-17 § 7.4.5 [2007-10-07]. (原始内容存档于2012-03-28). The center segment and cell will not have a spare, thus observations will be interrupted every one or two years for the 1–2 week period required to recoat that mirror.
^Chapter 2: Overview(PDF), GMT Conceptual Design Report, p. 2-4 § 2.5.1, 2006 [2012-03-25], (原始内容存档于2012-03-28), GMT is designed from the outset around adaptive optics (AO) with the goal of producing diffraction limited images at 1 μm and longer wavelengths.
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