WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE OPTICS
PSF RECONSTRUCTION
LOCATION & DATES
10-12 May 2004
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
National Research Council of Canada
Victoria, BC, Canada
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Laurent Jolissaint <laurent.jolissaint@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Jean-Pierre Véran <jean-pierre.veran@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Julian Christou <christou@ucolick.org>
Thomas Rimmele <rimmele@sunspot.noao.edu>
FINAL PROGRAM
Monday May 10th, 8h30 - 17h30
08:30 - 08:45 Refreshments
08:45 - 09:15 Jean-Pierre Veran - Introductory
talk
09:15 - 12:30 Session 1: Users Point of View
Define PSF requirements for quantitative AO data reduction
How accurate the PSF estimation needs to be? What metric
should we use?
Ken Mighell - Photometric/astrometric
accuracy (30min)
Nancy Ageorges - PSF requirements
for data reduction (30min)
Claire Max - LGS AO (30min)
Coffee Break (30min)
Jean-Luc Beuzit - Mass-luminosity relation
and multiplicity statistics of very low mass stars (30min)
John Hutchings - 60 mas imaging of 3C
273 with NIRI and Altair (30min)
Thomas Rimmele - PSF Estimation: The users
perspective (30min)
Julian Christou - Myopic deconvolution
(30min)
13:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:30 Session 2: PSF Reconstruction Techniques and Implementation
Overview of the state of the art of on-axis PSF reconstruction
Implementation details and results on existing AO systems
Curvature sensing WFS
Jean-Pierre Veran - PUEO/CFHT (45min)
Florence Rigal - SINFONI/MACAO/VLT (45min)
Coffee Break (30min)
Shack-Hartmann WFS
Laurent Jolissaint - Altair/Gemini (45min)
Damien Gratadour - NAOS/VLT (45min)
19:00 - ? Conference Dinner, Downtown Victoria
Tuesday May 11th, 8h30 - 17h40
08:30 - 08:45 Refreshments
08:45 - 13:15 Session 2: Continued
Shack-Hartmann WFS
Sebastian Egner - ALFA Calar Alto (45min)
Yann Clenet - NAOS/VLT (30min)
Dave Palmer - Lick AO Control Systems
Mike Fitzgerald - Lick AO
(45min)
Coffee break (30min)
Marcos van Dam - Keck AO (30min)
Solar AO
Markus Sailer - KAOS Vacuum Tower Telescope
(45min)
Jose Marino - Dunn Solar Telescope AO
(45min)
Kit Richards - DST PSF Estimation from
AO data
13:15 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 17:10 Session 3: Advanced Techniques R&D
LGS AO PSF / Off-axis PSF / Next Generation AO Systems
Eric Steinbring - LGS off-axis PSF characterization
(30min)
Francois Rigaut - Off-axis PSF modeling
on Gemini (30min)
Sebastian Egner - Off-axis PSF reconstruction
at ALFA (30min)
Terry Fusco - Post-processing for anisoplanatic
AO corrected images
Mitchell Troy - Palomar AO
Coffee break (30min)
Don Gavel - MTF modeling vs order of correction
for MCAO (30min)
Brent Ellerbroek - Cn2 estimation from
MCAO-WFS data (30min)
17:10 - 17:40 Planning of Future Collaborations
Wednesday May 12th, 8h30 - 15h00
08:30 - 08:45 Refreshments
08:45 - 13:00 Open discussions in small groups
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Wrap-up session
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