Astronomical imaging using ground-layer adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6691, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Baranec, Christoph ^a   Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Milton, N Mark ^a   Stalcup, Thomas ^a   Snyder, Miguel ^a   Vaitheeswaran, Vidhya ^a   McCarthy, Don ^a   Angel, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Ground layer adaptive optics; Infrared instrumentation; Laser guide stars; Wavefront sensors

Indexed keywords

GROUND LAYER ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INFRARED INSTRUMENTATION; LASER GUIDE STARS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; GAIN MEASUREMENT; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPACE TELESCOPES; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 42249109673     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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