Adaptive Optics Imaging of Solar System Objects
Abstract
Most solar system objects have never been observed at wavelengths longer than the R band with an angular resolution better than 1". The Hubble Space Telescope itself has only recently been equipped to observe in the infrared. However, because of its small diameter, the angular resolution is lower than that one can now achieved from the ground with adaptive optics, and time allocated to planetary science is limited. We have successfully used adaptive optics on a 4-m class telescope to obtain 0.1" resolution images of solar system objects in the far red and near infrared (0.7-2.5 microns), aE wavelengths which best discl"lmlnate their spectral signatures. Our efforts have been put into areas of research for which high angular resolution is essential.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- January 1999
- Bibcode:
- 1999STIN...0025316R
- Keywords:
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- Imaging Techniques;
- Adaptive Optics;
- Solar System;
- Infrared Radiation;
- Images;
- Spectral Signatures;
- Far Infrared Radiation;
- Angular Resolution;
- High Resolution;
- Astronomy