Recent science and engineering results with the laser guidestar adaptive optics system at Lick Observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 354-359

  Gavel, Donald ^a   Gates, Elinor ^b   Max, Claire ^a,b   Olivier, Scot ^a   Bauman, Brian ^a   Pennington, Deanna ^a   Macintosh, Bruce ^a   Patience, Jennifer ^a   Brown, Curtis ^a   Danforth, Pamela ^a   Hurd, Randy ^a   Severson, Scott ^b   Lloyd, James ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Astronomy; Laser Guide Star; Lick Observatory

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA REDUCTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

LASER GUIDED STARS (LGS); NATURAL GUIDED STARS (NGS);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038737124     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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