Twelve thousand laser-AO observations: first results from the Robo-AO large surveys

Nicholas M. Law; Christoph Baranec; Reed L. Riddle

doi:10.1117/12.2056994

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21 July 2014 Twelve thousand laser-AO observations: first results from the Robo-AO large surveys

Nicholas M. Law, Christoph Baranec, Reed L. Riddle

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Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 91480A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056994
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Robo-AO is the first AO system which can feasibly perform surveys of thousands of targets. The system has been operating in a fully robotic mode on the Palomar 1.5m telescope for almost two years. Robo-AO has completed nearly 12,000 high-angular-resolution observations in almost 20 separate science programs including exoplanet characterization, field star binarity, young star binarity and solar system observations. We summarize the Robo-AO surveys and the observations completed to date. We also describe the data-reduction pipeline we developed for Robo-AO—the first fully-automated AO data-reduction, point-spread-function subtraction and companion-search pipeline.

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Nicholas M. Law, Christoph Baranec, and Reed L. Riddle "Twelve thousand laser-AO observations: first results from the Robo-AO large surveys", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 91480A (21 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056994

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