Monitoring the low wind effect on the Starfire Optical Range 3.5-m telescope

Mala Mateen; Jack Drummond; Robert Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.2314277

18 July 2018 Monitoring the low wind effect on the Starfire Optical Range 3.5-m telescope

Mala Mateen, Jack Drummond, Robert Johnson

Proceedings Volume 10703, Adaptive Optics Systems VI; 107036P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314277
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The 3.5 m telescope, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Starfire Optical Range (SOR) routinely images asteroids and moons orbiting around the asteroid. However point-spread-functions (PSFs) with trefoil-like structure make it difficult to detect moons at small angular separations from the parent asteroid. This work investigates whether the low wind effect, such as that reported by VLT/SPHERE, produces trefoil-like PSFs (Sauvage et. al 2016).

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Mala Mateen, Jack Drummond, and Robert Johnson "Monitoring the low wind effect on the Starfire Optical Range 3.5-m telescope", Proc. SPIE 10703, Adaptive Optics Systems VI, 107036P (18 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314277

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