Very high contrast integral field spectroscopy of AB Doradus C: 9-mag contrast at 0.2 arcsec without a coronagraph using spectral deconvolution

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 378, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1229-1236

  Thatte, Niranjan ^a   Abuter, Roberto ^b   Tecza, Matthias ^a   Nielsen, Eric L ^c   Clarke, Fraser J ^a   Close, Laird M ^c  

^a Denys Wilkinson Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Instrumentation: spectrographs; Stars: individual: AB Doradus C; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROGRAPHS; STARS;

BINARIES: CLOSE; DECONVOLUTION METHOD; HIGH CONTRAST; INSTRUMENTATION: ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION:SPECTROGRAPHS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL DECONVOLUTION; STAR: INDIVIDUAL: AB DORADUS C; STARS: INDIVIDUAL: PROXIMA CENTAURI; STARS: LOW-MASS BROWN DWARFS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 34547311085     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11717.x     Document Type: Article

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