NAOS, the first AO system of the VLT: on-sky performance

By G. Rousset, F. Lacombe, P. Puget, N. Hubin, E. Gendron, T. Fusco, R. Arsenault, J. Charton, P. Feautrier, P. Gigan and 8 more. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2003

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Instrumentation

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• Adaptive Optics for Astronomy (2012, background): “Guyon (2005) carried out a theoretical study of noise propagation properties of the different WFS for high-contrast imaging applications.”
• A probable giant planet imaged in the beta Pictoris disk. VLT/NaCo deep L'-band imaging (2008, background): “…Telescope UT4 (Yepun) set in Paranal (Chile), to benefit from both the high image quality provided by the Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System (NAOS; Rousset et al. 2003) at infrared wavelengths and the good dy- namics offered by the Near-Infrared Imager and Spectrograph (CONICA; Lenzen et al.…”
• DISCOVERY OF A PROBABLE 4–5 JUPITER-MASS EXOPLANET TO HD 95086 BY DIRECT IMAGING (2013, methodology): “HD95086 was observed with VLT/NaCo (Lenzen et al. 2003, Rousset et al. 2003) in thermal infrared with angular differential imaging (ADI Marois et al. 2006) mode as part of our direct-imaging survey of young, dusty, and early-type stars (Rameau et al. 2013).”
• Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk (2018, neutral): “The planet was detected in five epochs with VLT/SPHERE (Beuzit et al. 2008), VLT/NaCo (Lenzen et al. 2003; Rousset et al. 2003), and Gemini/NICI (Chun et al. 2008) covering a wavelength range from H to L′-band.”
• The nearby eclipsing stellar system δ Velorum - IV. Differential astrometry with VLT/NACO at the 100 microarcsecond level (2013, positive): “We observed δVel at 11 epochs in April-May 2008 and January 2009 using the Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System (NAOS, Rousset et al. 2003) of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), coupled to the CONICA infrared camera (Lenzen et al. 1998), which is abbreviated as NACO.”
• A YOUNG PROTOPLANET CANDIDATE EMBEDDED IN THE CIRCUMSTELLAR DISK OF HD 100546 (2013, methodology): “HD100546 was observed with VLT/NACO (Lenzen et al. 2003; Rousset et al. 2003) and its Apodozing Phase Plate (APP) coronagraph (Kenworthy et al. 2010), which was already used in earlier exoplanet imaging projects (Quanz et al. 2010, 2011a; Kenworthy et al. 2013).”