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Astronomy Tea Talks at Caltech

Mondays, Robinson 106
Tea:  4.00pm
Talk: 4.15pm

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2007 - 2008 season:
12 November 2007 Nick Law (CalTech)

"Getting lucky at Palomar: 2x HST resolution in the visible"


I will present the first results from the new P200 LAMP instrument. For the first time, the system
routinely gave diffraction limited resolution imaging in the visible on a 5m class telescope. LAMP is
a L3CCD Lucky Imaging backend camera to the PALMAO adaptive optics system. The camera records
photon-counted images at 20-100 frames per second, covering up to 30 arcsec diameter fields. In
postprocessing the highest quality frames, typically 10-20% of the dataset, are selected on the basis
of Strehl ratio. The selected frames are drizzle-aligned to produce a final image with much improved
resolution compared to standard AO long-exposure imaging. Over a six-night run this July the
instrument typically produced images with 35-40 milli-arcsecond resolution and 5-20% Strehl ratios at
700nm.
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