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Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

Name: Adaptive Optics for Astronomy
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ADAPTIVE OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMY

Contributor(s): Alloin, D.M. Editor , Mariotti, Jean-Marie Editor Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9780792327486
Subtitle	ADAPTIVE OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMY
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	March 1994
Language	English
MRP	£179.99 GBP
Page count	360
Item weight	150 g

For many astronomers, Adaptive Optics is something like a dream coming true. Sinee 1609 and the first observations of celestial bodies performed with the help of an optieal teleseope, astronomers have always fighted to improve the 'resolving power' of their instruments. For a long time, engineers have trimmed the optieal quality of the teleseopes, until they finally reaehed the barrier set by the atmospherie turbulence, a few seconds of are. At that point, the intrinsic quality of the site beeame a major issue to establish new observatories with modern telescopes, and astronomers started to desert the urban skies and to migrate toward mountains and deserts. This quest has been sueeessful and a few privileged sites, where the average natural 'seeing' is close to 0. 5", are now hosting clusters of giant telescopes of the 4 m and soon 10 m class. Yet, this atmospherie limit corresponds in the visible wavelength range to the diffraetion limit of a 20 em telescope only. The loss was severe: a faetor 20 in angular and several hundred in peak energy eoncentration, i. e. in deteetivity of resolution very faint objeets. In the beginning of the seventies, two doors half opened to provide a way out of this dead-end. First, the technique of speckle interferometry (and its various related developments) has allowed to restore the diffraetion limit of large telescopes at visible and infrared wavelengths (see, e. g.

Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

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Alloin, D.M. Editor

Mariotti, Jean-Marie Editor

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