Using adaptive optics to find exoplanets

We will follow the material presented in

• Adaptive optics tutorial at CTIO maintained by A. Tokovinin.

The Gemini Planet Imager

• Gemini Planet Imager webpage
• Gemini Observatory page on GPi
• First light in 2014
• On-sky performance during verification and commissioning of the Gemini Planet Imager's adaptive optics system by Poyneer et al., SPIE 2014.

Subaru Telescope systems

• Subaru Telescope Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO)
  • SCExAO home page
  • An entertaining presentation on early observations, 2012

  I don't quite understand the use of the "Brony Cam", though ...

• HiCIAO imaging system
  • Surface Geometry of Protoplanetary Disks Inferred From Near-Infrared Imaging Polarimetry shows some examples of disks around nearby stars imaged with HiCIAO in polarimetry mode

Keck Telescope

• Natural Guide Star adaptive optics system on Keck
• NIRC2 home page

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