Articles by Nicholas M. Law in JoVE

Bringing the Visible Universe into Focus with Robo-AO

JoVE 50021 2/12/2013

Christoph Baranec^1,2, Reed Riddle¹, Nicholas M. Law³, A.N. Ramaprakash⁴, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar², Khanh Bui¹, Mahesh P. Burse⁴, Pravin Chordia⁴, Hillol K. Das⁴, Jack T.C. Davis¹, Richard G. Dekany¹, Mansi M. Kasliwal⁵, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni^1,2, Timothy D. Morton², Eran O. Ofek⁶, Sujit Punnadi⁴

¹Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, ²Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, ³Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, ⁴Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, ⁵Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, ⁶Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Light from astronomical objects must travel through the earth's turbulent atmosphere before it can be imaged by ground-based telescopes. To enable direct imaging at maximum theoretical angular resolution, advanced techniques such as those employed by the Robo-AO adaptive-optics system must be used.