Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

By Roger Davies, M. Kasper. 2012

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Adaptive Optics is a prime example of how progress in observational astronomy can be driven by technological developments. At many observatories it is now considered to be part of a standard instrumentation suite, enabling ground-based telescopes to reach the diffraction limit and thus providing spatial resolution superior to that achievable from space with current or planned satellites. In this review we consider adaptive optics from the astrophysical perspective. We show that adaptive optics has led to important advances in our understanding of a multitude of astrophysical processes, and describe how the requirements from science applications are now driving the development of the next generation of novel adaptive optics techniques.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. P. Hopkins
2. L. Hernquist
3. A. Dekel
4. R. Genzel
5. T. Naab
6. A. Renzini
7. E. Daddi
8. N. F. Förster Schreiber

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Goëry Genty
2. T. Naab
3. B. Bowler
4. S. Rotter
5. John M. Dudley
6. Sergei K. Turitsyn
7. Roger Davies
8. R. Genzel

In Instrumentation

1. P. Hopkins
2. R. Genzel
3. A. Dekel
4. A. Renzini
5. N. F. Förster Schreiber
6. P. V. van Dokkum
7. T. Naab
8. E. Daddi

Citations in the corpus

• The SINS/zC-SINF Survey of z ∼ 2 Galaxy Kinematics: SINFONI Adaptive Optics–assisted Data and Kiloparsec-scale Emission-line Properties (2018, background): “Due to a combination of the instrument’s optics, the nominal rectangular pixel shape, and anisoplanatism (e.g. Cresci et al. 2005; Davies & Kasper 2012), the PSF deviates slightly from circularity.”
• Imaging Extrasolar Giant Planets (2016, background): “…et al. 2014; Quanz 2015; Crossfield 2015), and high contrast imaging instruments and speckle suppression techniques (Guyon et al. 2006; Beuzit et al. 2007; Oppenheimer & Hinkley 2009; Biller et al. 2008; Marois et al. 2010a; Traub & Oppenheimer 2010; Mawet et al. 2012b; Davies & Kasper 2012).”
• Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control (2017, background): “In the last 50 years, deformable mirror technology (Babcock, 1953) and adaptive optics concepts have revolutionized imaging through the atmosphere (Lee and Harp, 1969) and thereby also earth-based astronomy (Roddier, 1999).”
• PALM-3000: EXOPLANET ADAPTIVE OPTICS FOR THE 5 m HALE TELESCOPE (2013, background): “The successful development of AO capabilities on the world’s largeaperture telescopes over the past two decades is a scientific achievement of a large and dedicated instrumentation community (Hart 2010; Davies and Kasper 2012).”
• Machine learning and applications in ultrafast photonics (2020, background): “metrology [83], spectroscopy [84, 85], energy 315 harvesting [86] or astronomy [87].”