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extreme adaptive optics

(ExAO, XAO, extreme AO)
(high-performance version of AO system)

The term extreme adaptive optics (extreme AO, ExAO or XAO) is used for a new generation of high-performance adaptive optics systems. One motivation is for direct imaging of extra-solar planets from the ground. New versions of such adaptive optics instruments have been recently installed or are in development for the major large optical/infrared telescopes. An example is the SCExAO proposal for the Subaru Telescope.


(telescopes,reflector,optics,instruments)
Further reading:
https://dictionary.obspm.fr/terms/extreme-adaptive-optics/
http://cfao.ucolick.org/research/exao.php
https://exaoc.ucolick.org/documents/Papers/XAOPI%20papers/wilhelmsen%205490-178.pdf
https://www.ucolick.org/~max/289/Lectures%202020/Lecture%2014%20-%20Extreme%20AO%20and%20Project/Lecture14%202020_v1_sm.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015PASP..127..890J/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PASP..128l1001J/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ARA%26A..56..315G/abstract

Referenced by pages:
adaptive optics (AO)
Keck Observatory (WMKO)
Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC)
SPHERE
Subaru Telescope

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