Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21421901w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #219.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.725
Physics
Optics
1
Scientific paper
Over 200 refereed science papers have been published using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics (AO) systems through 2008, including over 50 with the laser guide star (LGS) system. Community demand is high with 35% of the Keck II telescope science nights assigned to LGS AO and 10% to natural guide star (NGS) AO in the first half of 2009. A wide range of solar system, galactic and extragalactic science has been performed with the AO systems from weather monitoring on solar system planets and their moons, to the discovery of companions and the determination of the masses of asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects and brown dwarfs, to measuring the fundamental properties of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, to quantifying the kinematics and morphologies of high redshift galaxies and revealing the structure of galaxies through gravitational lensing observations. The Keck AO facilities feed a variety of near to mid-infrared science instruments including an imager, a slit spectrometer, an integral field spectrometer and the Keck Interferometer. We will describe the current capabilities, performance and limitations of the AO facilities, including science instruments, with an emphasis on how this relates to the science. We will also provide a short introduction to future planned capabilities.
Campbell Randy
Wizinowich Peter
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