| I detail the design, construction, and performance of the deformable mirrors and their driving electronics built for Chicago Adaptive Optics System (ChAOS). Both the mirrors and the drivers are constructed at the University of Chicago using a combination of commercially available and custom-built components. Mirrors ranging in size from 7 to 201 actuators have been constructed and several of these mirrors have been in use on the Apache Point 3.5 m telescope since April of 1995. I discuss some theoretical design issues involved in building deformable mirrors and I demonstrate the functionality of these mirrors by presenting some images obtained with ChAOS.; Near infrared broad and narrow band images are presented for eleven galactic H scII regions. Data were taken using the infrared camera on the Mount Palomar 60-inch telescope with the broad band filters, J, H, and K and with narrow band filters centered on H{dollar}sb2{dollar} and Br{dollar}gamma.{dollar} The observed morphologies of these regions are compared to ultraviolet fluorescence and shock front models of molecular hydrogen line emission. I find that the majority of these H scII regions can be described by ultraviolet fluorescence. |
