General 'easy' questions like for 8-10m class telescope = Finding standards ... How does it work with 5 guide star (MCAO case)? NACO images (courtesy D. Rouan) ...
Matthew Britton, Rich Dekany, Ralf Flicker, Claire Max, Chris Neyman, and Knut Olsen ... The Cn2 and wind profiles vary significantly on timescales of minutes ...
The long exposure PSF delivered by an NGS or LGS AO system varies in ... Tweeter Phase Variance in a Woofer/Tweeter AO Architecture. The PSF of an LGS System ...
Adaptive Optics in the VLT and ELT era Beyond Basic AO Fran ois Wildi Observatoire de Gen ve * Usual stuff * * * Usual stuff * Numerical simulation tools written at ...
Saturation effects in the Na layer, from Kibblewhite's paper ... Saturation, continued ... Disadvantages: potential saturation, less efficient excitation of ...
This approach is employed in the Altair system on Gemini North. Multi-Conjugate AO ... The probability of finding constellations' of bright, nicely distributed ...
Ellerbroek, B. CIBOLA code, includes correlation between phase components, modal ... 4- Control System time-lag (new term, includes LGS cone effect) 5- WFS ...
Show Gemini. AO animation. Measuring AO performance. Intensity. x ... Gemini comparison of Shack-Hartmann and curvature ... Vertical profile of turbulence ...
Homework number 3 due Tues Jan 29 (assignment is on the web) Reading assignments for Thurs January 24th and ... PDF files and discussion/chat rooms are on WebCT ...
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Short exposure images of the stars Gamma Perseus and Alpha ... Without atmosphere, the telescope forms a perfect 'diffraction-limited' ... Anti-reflection ...
Review just to give you the flavour (I will be ... Nematic. continuously variable phase screens ... Generation of astigmatism using a 69-element nematic LC ...
... as delivering stable high Strehl ratio infrared images in moderate field-of ... of the scientific advances in high-resolution imaging are currently thought to be. ...
At large telescopes, dominant AO error comes. from the high ... (SQS) is not optimal even for 8-m telescopes ... internal monitor on 8-m telescopes ...
Flicker and Neyman has been working on analysis and computer simulations that ... Based on F. Rigaut's AO simulation (YAO), Modified by Flicker for KPAO ...
From NAOS to the future SPHERE Extreme AO system ... Extreme AO for direct detection of extrasolar planets ... Chromatism effects. contrast. GAINS LOSSES ...
Science objectives - e.g. GEMINI ... most recently Hokupa'a on GEMINI http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ao ... GEMINI. Adaptive Optics. 30. Keck. Keck I AO image in H ...
Investigated using dense crowded field data from Gemini/Hokupa'a commisioning data. ... The x and y differences are shown by the appropriate symbols. ...
steepest descent search a la least squares. Lucy Richardson (LR) ... Ayers & Dainty, 'Iterative blind deconvolution and its applications' , Opt. Lett. ...
Subset of MCAO system with a single DM, WFS, LGS. Designs fully compatible ... Friday PM session restricted to the committee, vendors, and Gemini management chain ...
... V. I. Tatarski, 1961, 'Wave Propagation in a Turbulent Medium', McGraw-Hill, NY ... Note that Quirrenbach and Hardy call this function but I've called it C (r) in ...
MUSE - ASSIST and GLAO Update. Remko Stuik and Ralf Flicker. Leiden Observatory ... MUSE AO - MUSE. AO Technical Specifications. LGS positioning. On the edge ...
Shack-Hartmann: size of spot limited to / d, where d is size of a sub-aperture ... So spot can be D/r0 = 20 - 100 times smaller than for Shack-Hartmann ...
AO concepts for extremely large telescopes Rich Dekany Jet Propulsion Laboratory Richard.Dekany@jpl.nasa.gov Today s show... Extremely Large Telescopes Historical ...
What questions to ask when you get to the telescope. Observing ... Movie: NGS to LGS AO. Page 11. Structure in extended objects ... Get twilight flats. Page 37 ...
Includes conceptual design (with options), initial cost ... Who is doing what, and what % of time is each person devoting to NGAO? Details in project plan. ...
Higher faint-source sensitivity than Keck NGAO (very low backgrounds) ... galactic nuclei and quasi-stellar objects on spatial scales smaller than 100 pc ...