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1 Introduction
 1.1 The Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence
 1.2 Correction Methods
 1.3 The Lucky Imaging Technique
 1.4 The Structure of This Thesis
 1.5 Summary
2 The LuckyCam Data Acquisition System
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 LuckyCam Optics
 2.3 L3CCDs
 2.4 Data acquisition - PixCel LC
 2.5 Summary
3 The Lucky Imaging Data Reduction Pipeline
 3.1 The Lucky Imaging Process
 3.2 Pipeline Implementation
 3.3 LSCRIPT
 3.4 CLEANUP & BIASGEN
 3.5 LUCKY
 3.6 Summary
4 Lucky Imaging Performance
 4.1 The PSFs produced by Lucky Imaging
 4.2 Lucky Imaging Performance
 4.3 Signal-to-noise Ratio (SNR) Considerations
 4.4 Lucky Imaging Requirements
 4.5 Summary
5 Measuring Close Binary Parameters with LuckyCam
 5.1 Introduction
 5.2 Close Binary Photometry
 5.3 Speckle Interferometry with L3CCDs
 5.4 Summary
6 The LuckyCam Survey for VLM Binaries I: M5.5-M8 dwarfs within 40pc
 6.1 Introduction – VLM Binaries
 6.2 The Sample
 6.3 Observations
 6.4 Results & Analysis
 6.5 Discussion
 6.6 Summary
7 The LuckyCam Survey for VLM Binaries II: M4.5-M6.0 Targets
 7.1 The Sample
 7.2 Observations
 7.3 Results & Analysis
 7.4 Discussion
 7.5 Conclusions from the LuckyCam Surveys
 7.6 Summary
8 Conclusions
 8.1 Lucky Imaging Performance
 8.2 Future Prospects for Lucky Imaging
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