Sentences with phrase «laser guide star»
A coinventor of the laser guide star technique for astronomical adaptive optics, she has helped revolutionize the capabilities of ground - based telescopes.
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The first Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system on a large telescope was commissioned on the Keck II telescope in 2004 and, among many other firsts, helped reveal the black hole at the center of the Milky Way — one the most significant astronomical discoveries.
«The Next Generation Laser System is the third generation of lasers at Keck Observatory, which has been pioneering Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics on big telescopes since 2001,» said Jason Chin, the project manager for the new laser at Keck Observatory.
«Design of the fully articulated main science steering mirror system in the telescope, as well as development of the lasers, laser guide star systems and other high - tech components, is proceeding in China,» said Yan Jun, Director General of the National Astronomical Observatories of China.
Located atop Maunakea on Hawai`i Island, home of one of the best astronomical observation sites on Earth, Keck Observatory's revolutionary twin, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrometers, and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
We demonstrate use of a matched filter algorithm for the processing of elongated laser guide star (LGS) Shack - Hartmann images, using the CANARY adaptive optics instrument on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope and the European Southern Observatory Wendelstein LGS Unit placed 40m away.
Located atop Maunakea on Hawaii Island, home of one of the best astronomical observation sites on Earth, Keck Observatory's revolutionary twin, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrometers, and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
The team obtained Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics observations using NIRC2 at Keck Observatory to determine it was a single planet.
(Please be patient while video loads) This opening image of this video is the brown dwarf binary CFBDSIR 1458 +10 and was obtained using the Laser Guide Star (LGS) Adaptive Optics system on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
We demonstrate use of a matched filter algorithm for the processing of elongated laser guide star (LGS) Shack - Hartmann images, using the CANARY adaptive optics instrument on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope and the European Souther... ▽ More The performance of adaptive optics systems is partially dependant on the algorithms used within the real - time control system to compute wavefront slope measurements.
Thanks to the high performance of our pioneering Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system and the brilliant work of Dr. Liu and colleagues, Keck Observatory continues to advance our knowledge of these fascinating objects.
This direct image was taken at Keck Observatory using NIRC2 and Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics showing the planet does not have a binary companion.
«We are pleased to report the first Laser Guide Star adaptive optics observations of the center of our galaxy.»
The technology, known as Laser Guide Star adaptive optics, will lead to important advances in the study of planets both inside and outside our solar system, as well as of galaxies, black holes, and how the universe formed and evolved, Ghez said.
Laser Guide Star allows astronomers to «generate an artificial bright star» exactly where they want it, which reveals the atmosphere's distortions.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
Capturing the creation of this type of large, short - lived star body is extremely rare — the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds, said the scientists, who relied primarily on data from Keck Observatory's NIRC2 fitted with the laser guide star adaptive optics (LGSAO) system.
The twin 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes located on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii, feature a world - leading suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and a laser guide star adaptive optics system.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
«We're thrilled to support the Keck II Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, because we believe in the inherent value of science and the importance of basic research,» said Cyndi Atherton, Program Director for Science at the Moore Foundation.
Keck commissioned the first large Laser Guide Star (LGS) AO system on Keck II in 2004.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrometer and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation and The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation awarded three grants totaling $ 3.7 million to significantly upgrade the Keck II Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGS AO) system.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai'i feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
An international team of astronomers, led by PhD student Erik Kool of Macquarie University in Australia, used laser guide star imaging on the Gemini South telescope to study why we don't see as many of these core - collapse supernovae as expected.
The researchers made their discovery by obtaining spectroscopic measurements of S0 - 2 using W. M. Keck Observatory's OH - Suppressing Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (OSIRIS) and Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics.
«We are pleased to report the first laser guide star adaptive optics observations of the center of our galaxy.»
The telescope's laser guide star system uses adaptive optics to create ultrasharp images that compensate for distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere.
The laser guide star system is expected to begin science operations later in 2006.
On - sky demonstration of matched filters for wavefront measurements using ELT - scale elongated laser guide stars
Not exact matches
The Keck II laser is creating a «guide star» as part of its world - leading adaptive optics system.