GravityCam: higher resolution visible wide-field imaging
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GravityCam : higher resolution visible wide-field imaging. / Skottfelt, Jesper; Mackay, Craig D.; Dominik, Martin; Snodgrass, Colin; Jørgensen, Uffe G.; Takami, Hideki (Redaktør); Evans, Christopher J. (Redaktør); Simard, Luc.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2018. s. 1070250-1070264 (Proceedings of SPIE; Nr. 10702).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - GravityCam
T2 - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
AU - Skottfelt, Jesper
AU - Mackay, Craig D.
AU - Dominik, Martin
AU - Snodgrass, Colin
AU - Jørgensen, Uffe G.
AU - Simard, Luc
A2 - Takami, Hideki
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
PY - 2018/7/20
Y1 - 2018/7/20
N2 - The limits to the angular resolution has, during the latest 70 years, been obtainable from the ground only through extremely expensive adaptive optics facilities at large telescopes, and covering extremely small spatial areas per exposure. Atmospheric turbulence therefore limits image quality to typically 1 arcsec in practice. We have developed a new concept of ground-based imaging instrument called GravityCam capable of delivering significantly sharper images from the ground than is normally possible without adaptive optics. The acquisition of visible images at high speed without significant noise penalty has been made possible by advances in optical and near IR imaging technologies. Images recorded at high speed can be aligned before combination and can yield a 3-5 fold improvement in image resolution, or be used separately for high-cadence photometry. Very wide survey fields are possible with widefield telescope optics. GravityCam is proposed to be installed at the 3.6m New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, where it will greatly accelerate the rate of detection of Earth sized planets by gravitational microlensing. GravityCam will also improve substantially the quality of weak shear studies of dark matter distribution in distant clusters of galaxies and provide a vast dataset for asteroseismology studies. In addition, GravityCam promises to generate a unique data set that will help us understand of the population of the Kuiper belt and possibly the Oort cloud.© (2018) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
AB - The limits to the angular resolution has, during the latest 70 years, been obtainable from the ground only through extremely expensive adaptive optics facilities at large telescopes, and covering extremely small spatial areas per exposure. Atmospheric turbulence therefore limits image quality to typically 1 arcsec in practice. We have developed a new concept of ground-based imaging instrument called GravityCam capable of delivering significantly sharper images from the ground than is normally possible without adaptive optics. The acquisition of visible images at high speed without significant noise penalty has been made possible by advances in optical and near IR imaging technologies. Images recorded at high speed can be aligned before combination and can yield a 3-5 fold improvement in image resolution, or be used separately for high-cadence photometry. Very wide survey fields are possible with widefield telescope optics. GravityCam is proposed to be installed at the 3.6m New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, where it will greatly accelerate the rate of detection of Earth sized planets by gravitational microlensing. GravityCam will also improve substantially the quality of weak shear studies of dark matter distribution in distant clusters of galaxies and provide a vast dataset for asteroseismology studies. In addition, GravityCam promises to generate a unique data set that will help us understand of the population of the Kuiper belt and possibly the Oort cloud.© (2018) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
U2 - 10.1117/12.2309930
DO - 10.1117/12.2309930
M3 - Article in proceedings
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE
SP - 1070250
EP - 1070264
BT - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
PB - SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Y2 - 10 June 2018 through 15 June 2018
ER -
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