High contrast imaging with the Magellan VisAO camera

Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Katie M. Morzinski, Derek Kopon, Katherine B. Follette, Philip M. Hinz, Timothy J. Rodigas, Alfio Puglisi, Simone Esposito, Armando Riccardi, Enrico Pinna, Marco Xompero, Runa Briguglio, Ya Lin Wu, Alan Uomoto, Tyson Hare

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication3rd AO4ELT Conference - Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes
PublisherINAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri Largo Enrico Fermi
ISBN (Print)9788890887604
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event3rd Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2013 - Florence, Italy
Duration: May 26 2013May 31 2013

Publication series

Name3rd AO4ELT Conference - Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes

Other

Other3rd Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2013
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period5/26/135/31/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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