Covariance of lucky images for increasing objects contrast: diffraction-limited images in ground-based telescopes
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Pérez Cagigal, Manuel; Valle Herrero, Pedro José; Colodro Conde, Carlos; Villo Pérez, Isidro; Pérez Garrido, AntonioKnowledge Area
Arquitectura y Tecnología de ComputadorasSponsors
This research was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under project FIS2012-31079 and the Fundación Séneca of Murcia under projects 15419/PI/10 and 15345/PI/10.Publication date
2016-01Publisher
BlackwellBibliographic Citation
PÉREZ CAGIGAL, Manuel et al. Covariance of lucky images for increasing objects contrast: diffraction-limited images in ground-based telescopes. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 455.3 (Jan. 2016), pp. 2765–2771Peer review
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Atmospheric effectsTechniques: high angular resolution
Techniques: image processing
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Images of stars adopt shapes far from the ideal Airy pattern due to atmospheric density fluctuations. Hence, diffraction limited images can only be achieved by telescopes without atmospheric influence, e.g. spatial telescopes, or by using techniques
like Adaptive Optics or Lucky Imaging. In this paper, we propose a new computational technique based on the evaluation of the COvariancE of Lucky Images (COELI). This technique allows to discover companions to main stars by taking advantage of the
atmospheric fluctuations. We describe the algorithm and we carry out a theoretical analysis of the improvement in contrast. We have used images taken with 2.2 m Calar Alto telescope as a testbed for the technique resulting that, under certain conditions,
telescope diffraction limit is clearly reached .
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