Evaluation of the on-sky performance of Altair

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 67-78

  Stoesz, Jeff A ^a,b   Véran, Jean Pierre ^a   Rigaut, Francois ^c   Herriot, Glen ^a   Jolissaint, Laurent ^a   Frenette, Danielle ^a   Dunn, Jennifer ^a   Smith, Malcolm ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Altair; Anisoplanatism; Loop statistics; Performance; PSF evaluation; Stellar fields

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC FLUX; OPTICAL DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

ALTAIR; ANISOPLANATISM; LOOP STATISTICS; STELLER FIELDS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144330039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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