Robotic laser adaptive optics for rapid visible/near-infrared AO imaging and boosted-sensitivity low-resolution NIR integral field spectroscopy

2019/07/12 by Christoph Baranec, Baranec, Christoph
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Optical Coherence Tomography Applications #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.07052

openalex publication_date 2019/07/12 · openalex created_date 2019/07/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Large area surveys will dominate the next decade of astronomy, and the main limitation to science will be the thorough followup and characterization of their extremely numerous discoveries. The deployment of robotic laser adaptive optics on mid-sized telescopes will be crucial for the sensitive and rapid characterization of these survey targets.

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