Imaging and treatment of the PSF in AO instruments: Application to NACO

Y. Clénet*, E. Gendron, G. Rousset, T. Fusco, C. Lidman, M. Kasper, N. Ageorges, O. Marco

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Abstract

After about 15 years of operation with astronomical instruments, adaptive optics has now reached maturity: it is routinely used at several large telescopes and transparent for the astronomer. Though, adaptive optics assisted images have specificities compared to seeing-limited images, such as their point spread function profile or spatial/temporal variability, that I review in the following. Adaptive optics imaging, unlike seeing-limited imaging, offers the possibility to calibrate the PSF simultaneously to the scientific observations, using real-time measurements of the adaptive optics system itself. I introduce here this PSF reconstruction and review the different PSF reconstruction algorithms developed till now, in particular the one for NAOS.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching
EditorsAndreas Kaufer, Florian Kerber
Pages259-269
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameESO Astrophysics Symposia
Volume2008
ISSN (Print)1431-2433
ISSN (Electronic)1611-6143

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