TY - GEN
T1 - High contrast imaging with the Magellan VisAO camera
AU - Males, Jared R.
AU - Close, Laird M.
AU - Morzinski, Katie M.
AU - Kopon, Derek
AU - Follette, Katherine B.
AU - Hinz, Philip M.
AU - Rodigas, Timothy J.
AU - Puglisi, Alfio
AU - Esposito, Simone
AU - Riccardi, Armando
AU - Pinna, Enrico
AU - Xompero, Marco
AU - Briguglio, Runa
AU - Wu, Ya Lin
AU - Uomoto, Alan
AU - Hare, Tyson
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Magellan Adaptive Optics system (MagAO) saw first light in November 2012 at Las Campanas Observatory on the 6.5m Clay telescope. Here we present an introduction to MagAO's visible wavelength diffraction limited imager, VisAO. VisAO delivers Strehl ratios greater than 30% from 0.62 microns (r') through 1 micron, where Strehl is even higher, and achieved resolutions as small as 20 milli-arcseconds. There are several design considerations which allow VisAO to achieve such good performance on a large telescope, and these will have important implications for ELT AO systems. We took advantage of the excellent performance of MagAO/VisAO to conduct high contrast observations of an exoplanet in the optical.
AB - The Magellan Adaptive Optics system (MagAO) saw first light in November 2012 at Las Campanas Observatory on the 6.5m Clay telescope. Here we present an introduction to MagAO's visible wavelength diffraction limited imager, VisAO. VisAO delivers Strehl ratios greater than 30% from 0.62 microns (r') through 1 micron, where Strehl is even higher, and achieved resolutions as small as 20 milli-arcseconds. There are several design considerations which allow VisAO to achieve such good performance on a large telescope, and these will have important implications for ELT AO systems. We took advantage of the excellent performance of MagAO/VisAO to conduct high contrast observations of an exoplanet in the optical.
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U2 - 10.12839/AO4ELT3.13286
DO - 10.12839/AO4ELT3.13286
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84901932613
SN - 9788890887604
T3 - 3rd AO4ELT Conference - Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes
BT - 3rd AO4ELT Conference - Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes
PB - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri Largo Enrico Fermi
T2 - 3rd Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2013
Y2 - 26 May 2013 through 31 May 2013
ER -