Thursday, December 2, 2010, 3:00 pm — Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
Beginning in 2011, Stony Brook astrophysicists will have guaranteed
access to the Palomar Hale 5 m telescope through a cooperative agreement
with the California Institute of Technology. The Hale is a general-use
astronomical facility, with a broad range of capabilities in optical
through mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy. However, of greatest
interest to us is an ongoing upgrade of the existing adaptive optics
system on the telescope to enable very high order corrections of the
atmospheric turbulence. The new PALM3000 "extreme" adaptive optics
system is expected to deliver a dynamic range as high as 1e7 at angular
separations as small as two times the telescope diffraction limit
lambda/D. We expect that, together with a sister facilty coming on-line
at the Gemini South 8 m telescope in the southern hemisphere, Palomar
will dominate the ground-based imaging of extrasolar planets for the
next decade.
Hosted by: Anze Slosar
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