Sentences with phrase «adaptive optics»

That's also why they use real time adaptive optics for the new large ground based telescopes (Keck, e.g.) to correct for atmospheric aberration.

The GPI consortium built an advanced adaptive optics using silicon microchip deformable mirrors to remove atmospheric turbulence, and coronagraphic masks to block the diffracted light from the parent star.

These included archived recordings of the variation of light caused by the spin of the asteroid, and direct imaging by adaptive optics systems.

The 3 - meter Lick and 8 - meter Subaru telescopes are already equipped with adaptive optics, which creates sharper images by removing the jiggle in stars caused by turbulence in the atmosphere.

Over the past 15 years, he has dedicated his research to the study of our solar system using mainly ground - based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics.

This highly complex instrument belongs to the next level in adaptive optics design: an Extreme AO system.

The main techniques will be high - dynamic range imaging, imaging polarimetry, aperture polarimetry, spectropolarimetry, coronagraphy, and adaptive optics assistance for many of these techniques.

Adaptive optics — a technique that originated in astronomy — has been employed in order to take light scattering into account, enabling high - resolution microscopy of mouse brain tissue through an intact skull.

Although observatories are built at sites that typically have clear skies and relatively calm air layers, the only ways to get truly sharp images is go above the atmosphere (think Hubble Space Telescope) or to build highly complicated adaptive optics systems that correct for the atmospheric turbulence (and even most imperfections of the telescope itself).

Nobel laureate Eric Betzig's radical invention merges high - speed, non-invasive bioscanning and astronomy's adaptive optics

By combining expertise from various fields — coronagraphy and high contrast imaging from solar physics, polishing, polarimetry and adaptive optics from astronomical communities and the experience of each institutional partner, this telescope will make significant advances in several fields.

He currently works on novel optical designs, 3D printable optical technologies, co-phasing strategies, and adaptive optics concepts for extremely large telescopes and Antarctica - based astronomy.

Her current research in astronomy involves the use of adaptive optics to study merging black holes at the centers of galaxies.

Merging adaptive optics and rapid scanning.

The tubes were blowing cold air under the covers to cool what is arguably the most complex adaptive optics system in the world: SPHERE.

Dr. Maud Langlois is an expert in extreme adaptive optics and the instrument scientist of the IR dual imaging and spectrograph for the spectro - polarimetric high - contrast exoplanet system (SPHERE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which is used for direct detection of exoplanets.

In a series of human clinical trials, we're now testing some of the new adaptive optics imaging modalities, some of the new OCT - based modalities.

A coinventor of the laser guide star technique for astronomical adaptive optics, she has helped revolutionize the capabilities of ground - based telescopes.

The new adaptive optics / lattice light sheet microscopy (AO - LLSM) system addresses two fundamental flaws with traditional microscopes.

Anne - Marie Lagrange and her group have used these adaptive optics systems to painstakingly search nearby stars (typically within a distance of 250 lightyears) for exoplanets.

Adaptive optics systems sense atmospheric turbulence in real - time.

Employing asteroseismology, using constraints from the transit light curve, adaptive optics and speckle images, and Spitzer transit observations, we demonstrate that the candidate can only be an exoplanet orbiting Kepler - 410A.

Adaptive optics removes the blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere, greatly increasing the acuity of astronomical images and allowing astronomers to study very faint and distant objects in the universe.

In Canada, the TMT adaptive optics facility is in final design.

Researchers at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) celebrate the first wide - field correction of solar images with next generation adaptive optics.

«Observations using the NIRC2 camera and adaptive optics system at the Keck Observatory allowed the GPI team to independently verify the existence of the planet,» Macintosh said.

The new adaptive optics system, called MagAO, has already made some important scientific discoveries.

Keck Observatory is a leader in the study of planets around other stars, both discovering them with precise Doppler measurements and measuring their properties with high resolution spectroscopy and adaptive optics imaging.

The power of visible light adaptive optics.

Check out this folded sheet for detailed facts about the project, including performances of the instruments and adaptive optics systems.

We used an improved method to derive the completeness limits of the observations, which takes into account the elongated point spread function of stars at relatively large distances from the adaptive optics guide star.

The first images of an exoplanet in 2004 (2M1207b) and a family of exoplanets in 2008 (HR 8799) demonstrated the powerful ability of adaptive optics on large ground - based telescopes to spot massive exoplanets.

Follow - up high - contrast imaging observations were then taken in 2012 using the NIRC2 instrument on the Keck II telescope with the adaptive optics system revealing the companion as shown above.

Third place went to Charlie Granger, a PhD candidate in optics, who used adaptive optics technology to show the natural fluorescence of retinal pigment epithelial cells, which form a layer only one cell deep, on the backside of the eye's light - sensitive retina.

This revolutionary telescope will integrate the latest innovations in precision control, segmented mirror design, and adaptive optics to correct for the blurring effect of Earth's atmosphere.

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.

Experience with wavefront sensor and deformable mirror interfaces for wide - field adaptive optics systems

Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

We observed 228 stars with adaptive optics systems, in order to find companions at separations of 0.13» - 1.12» (60 - 500 AU), and detected 13 new binaries.

Importantly, classical mo... ▽ More Exploring the use of single - mode fibers (SMFs) in high precision Doppler spectrometers has become increasingly attractive since the advent of diffraction - limited adaptive optics systems on large - aperture telescopes.

Dr. Dubra: This past year we've been focusing on improving a wide field adaptive optics instrument that we developed as part of this project so that it can, not only cover a big portion of the retina, but also achieve very high resolution.

This image combines views from the Keck II telescope using adaptive optics and Hubble to show a foreground galaxy that is acting as the gravitational lens.

The discoveries were made using instruments fitted to telescopes at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego: the Robo - AO adaptive optics system, developed by the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and the PALM - 3000 adaptive optics system, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Caltech.

Abstract: Exploring the use of single - mode fibers (SMFs) in high precision Doppler spectrometers has become increasingly attractive since the advent of diffraction - limited adaptive optics systems on large - aperture telescopes.

Then the middle image shows how if we remove (in real time) the blurring of the atmosphere with MagAO's adaptive optics» the resulting photo becomes ~ 17 times sharper (corrected resolutions range from 0.019 - 0.029 arcseconds on theta 1 Ori C).

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption — one of the brightest ever seen on Io — on Aug. 29 at the start of a year - long series of Io observations led by de Kleer, using both the Near - Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near - infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

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.

The Keck II laser is creating a «guide star» as part of its world - leading adaptive optics system.

«The Keck Observatory has been the leader in adaptive optics for more than a decade and has enabled us to achieve tremendous progress in correcting the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere using high — angular resolution imaging techniques,» Ghez said.

In her previous postdoc position, Caroline worked at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow to implement adaptive optics technology in their in - vivo two - photon imaging system.