Astronomical science with laser guide star adaptive optics: A brief review, a current snapshot, and a bright future

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Liu, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Brown dwarfs; High angular resolution; Keck Telescope; Laser guide stars

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BROWN DWARFS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; KECK TELESCOPE; LASER GUIDE STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749419664     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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