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Diffraction-limited Visible Light Images of Orion Trapezium Cluster with the Magellan Adaptive Secondary Adaptive Optics System (MagAO)

  • Authors: L. M. Close, J. R. Males, K. Morzinski, D. Kopon, K. Follette, T. J. Rodigas, P. Hinz, Y-L. Wu, A. Puglisi, S. Esposito, A. Riccardi, E. Pinna, M. Xompero, R. Briguglio, A Uomoto, and T. Hare

Close et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 774 94.

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Caption: Figure 2.

Radial profile (red points) of a deep (300 s) MagAO Y short (0.98 μm) PSF on a bright ( V = 5 mag) star closed-loop at 990 Hz with 250 modes in 0 farcs6 V band seeing (from J. R. Males et al. 2013, in preparation). Inset: a log10 Stretch of the PSF. There was no post-detection processing of any of the data (no SAA, no Lucky imaging, or frame selection applied). The theoretical MagAO PSF profile as imaged by the E2V CCD47 (Strehl 100%). A detailed comparison of the observed PSF to theory with our CCD47 (including dark current and PRF) shows that we reached a Strehl of 43% or 140 nm rms optical wavefront error.

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