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21 July 2014Twelve thousand laser-AO observations: first results from the Robo-AO large surveys
Nicholas M. Law,1 Christoph Baranec,2 Reed L. Riddle3
1The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States) 2Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawai'i (United States) 3California Institute of Technology (United States)
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, 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