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Extreme AO for extrasolar planet detection with ELTs: application to OWL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2006

T. Fusco
Affiliation:
ONERA, BP 72, 92322 Chatillon Cedex, France
C. Verinaud
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, Garching, D-85748 Germany
G. Rousset
Affiliation:
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon, France
J.-L. Beuzit
Affiliation:
LAOG, Observatoire de Grenoble, B.P. 53, 38041 Grenoble, France
M. Kasper
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, Garching, D-85748 Germany
D. Mouillet
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, B.P. 826, 65008 Tarbes, France
N. Hubin
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, Garching, D-85748 Germany
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Abstract

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The detection of telluric extra-solar planets implies an extremely high contrast long exposure imaging capability at near-infrared and probably visible wavelengths. We present here the core of any Planet Finder instrument which is the extreme AO sub-system. The level of AO correction directly impacts on the exposure time required for planet detection. The extreme adaptive optics system has to correct for the perturbation induced by the atmospheric turbulence as well as for the internal aberrations of the instrument itself. An example of application is proposed in the frame of the EPICS project (XAO system for the ESO OWL telescope).

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
2006 International Astronomical Union