LGS AO science impact: Present and future perspectives

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, 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

BROWN DWARF; BROWN DWARFS; DATA QUALITY; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; KECK TELESCOPE; LASER GUIDE STAR ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LASER GUIDE STARS; NEW SYSTEM; PUBLICATION RATES; QUANTITATIVE MORPHOLOGY; SCIENCE IMPACT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPACE-BASED OBSERVATORIES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LASERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; STARS; TELESCOPES;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 66949172463     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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