Performance of the near-infrared coronagraphic imager on gemini-south

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chun, Mark ^a   Toomey, Doug ^b   Wahhaj, Zahed ^a   Biller, Beth ^a   Artigau, Etienne ^c   Hayward, Tom ^c   Liu, Mike ^a   Close, Laird ^d   Hartung, Markus ^c   Rigauf, Francois ^c   Ftaclas, Christ ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Mauna Kea Infrared LLC   (United States)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; High contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; DUAL CHANNEL; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; LYOT CORONAGRAPHS; MODEL PREDICTION; NEAR INFRARED; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES;

IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 64849113782     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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