The performance of partial adaptive correction at the Multiple Mirror Telescope

Details The performance of partial adaptive correction at the Multiple Mirror Telescope The performance of partial adaptive correction at the Multiple Mirror Telescope

Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993pasp..105.1322c&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 105, no. 693, p. 1322-1329

Physics

Optics

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Adaptive Optics, Atmospheric Correction, Mirrors, Performance Tests, Telescopes, Gray Scale, Image Processing, Speckle Patterns

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In this paper we investigate the relative merits of the uses of an adaptive mirror at the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) for improving imaging performance. This study, using simulated data for near-infrared seeing conditions, investigates the benefits of both wave front piston and tilt correction for each of the subapertures thereby predicting the performance of the recently installed six-element adaptive mirror. We also investigate how the post-detection correction technique of peak tracking improves the resulting image quality as well as the improvement in the performance of speckle imaging. The overall imaging performance is measured from the increase in Strehl ratio. The diffraction-limited imaging performance, not neccessarily given by the Strehl ratio, is determined from the high-spatial frequency content of the images. This analysis both demonstrates the necessity of atmospheric compensation for interferometric imaging and investigates the adaptive performance of a monolithic aperture using a relatively small number of approximately equal to ro size subapertures.

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