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Bringing the Visible Universe into Focus with Robo-AO
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February 12, 2013
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1Caltech Optical Observatories,California Institute of Technology, 2Department of Astronomy,California Institute of Technology, 3Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics,University of Toronto, 4Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, 5Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 6Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics,Weizmann Institute of Science
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Light from astronomical objects must travel through the earth's turbulent atmosphere before it can be imaged by ground-based telescopes. To enable direct imaging at maximum theoretical angular resolution, advanced techniques such as those employed by the Robo-AO adaptive-optics system must be used.
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Baranec, C., Riddle, R., Law, N. M., Ramaprakash, A., Tendulkar, S. P., Bui, K., Burse, M. P., Chordia, P., Das, H. K., Davis, J. T., Dekany, R. G., Kasliwal, M. M., Kulkarni, S. R., Morton, T. D., Ofek, E. O., Punnadi, S. Bringing the Visible Universe into Focus with Robo-AO. J. Vis. Exp. (72), e50021, doi:10.3791/50021 (2013).
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