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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
All the world's major telescopes either have adaptive optics or are in the process of building AO systems. It turns out that a reasonable fraction of the sky can be observed using adaptive optics, with moderately good imaging quality, provided imaging in done in the near IR. To move out of the near IR, with its relatively poor angular resolution, astronomers need a laser guide star. There is a layer of Na atoms at approximately 90 km altitude that can be excited by a laser to produce such a source, or Rayleigh scattering can be employed lower in the atmosphere. But the production and use of laser guide stars is not trivial, and the key issues determining their successful implementation are discussed here, including the physics of the Na atom, the cone effect, tilt determination, sky coverage, and numerous potential astronomical applications.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy
Editors: N. Ageorges, C. Dainty
Series Title: Nato Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9624-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6381-1Published: 31 May 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5492-0Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9624-4Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 1389-2185
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 340
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices