Performance of Subaru adaptive optics system and the scientific results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-31

  Takami, Hideki ^a   Takato, Naruhisa ^a   Hayano, Yutaka ^a   Iye, Masanori ^a   Kamata, Yukiko ^a   Minowa, Yosuke ^a   Kanzawa, Tomio ^a   Gaessler, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Bimorph mirror; Curvature sensor; Subaru telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; MIRRORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

BIMORPH MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038274169     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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