Diffraction-limited I band imaging with faint reference stars

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Feb 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003spie.4839.1093t&link_type=abstract

Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4

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Optics

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The use of faint reference stars for the selection of good short exposure images has recently been demonstrated as a technique which can provide essentially diffraction-limited I band imaging from well-figured ground-based telescopes as large as 2.5 m diameter. The faint limiting magnitude and enhanced isoplanatic patch size for the selected exposures technique means that 20% of the night sky is within range of a suitable reference star for I-band imaging. Typically the 1%-10% of exposures with the highest Strehl ratios are selected. When these exposures are shifted and added together, field stars in the resulting images have Strehl ratios as high as 0.26 and FWHM as small as 90 milliarcseconds. Within the selected exposures the isoplanatic patch is found to be up to 50 arcseconds in diameter at 810 nm wavelength. Images within globular clusters and of multiple stars from the Nordic Optical Telescope using reference stars as faint as I~16 are presented. The technique relies on a new generation of CCDs which provide sub-electron readout noise at very fast readout rates. The performance of the selection technique for various astronomical programs is discussed in comparison with natural guide star Adaptive Optics (AO).

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