Status and new operation modes of the versatile VLT/NACO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Girard, Julien H V ^a   Kasper, Markus ^b   Quanz, Sascha P ^c   Kenworthy, Matthew A ^d   Rengaswamy, Sridharan ^a   Schödel, Rainer ^e   Gallenne, Alexandre ^a   Gillessen, Stefan ^f   Huerta, Nicolas ^a   Kervella, Pierre ^g   Kornweibel, Nick ^b   Lenzen, Rainer ^h   Mérand, Antoine ^a   Montagnier, Guillaume ^a   O'Neal, Jared ^a   Zins, Gérard ⁱ  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^g OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; High angular resolution; High contrast imaging; Infrared astronomy; Very large telescope

Indexed keywords

FRAME SELECTION; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; IMAGERS; INFRARED ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENT OPERATION; LASER GUIDE STAR; NEW OPERATION MODES; OPERATION MODE; PARANAL; SECOND GENERATION; SKY COVERAGE; TEST-BENCH; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE; WAVE FRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRIC APPLIANCES; INSTRUMENTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPHERES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77957824688     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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