Disclaimer

The access to this site is not restricted and we wish to use it with an Open Source philosophy: we invite you to post the work you are willing to share with others. Please, include any bibliography references or acknowledgments you would like readers/users to consider. And of course, we expect anyone using your work to give proper credits. In return for your collaborative work, we hope you will find here other tools, analysis and discussion that will benefit your future projects.

AO Users' Resource Pages

The purpose of this page is to facilitate the exchange of information among Astronomers and Users of Adaptive Optics instrumentation, and to start, for those who observe with the Lick, Keck and/or Gemini AO systems. We realize there is a lot of work going-on reducing and analyzing AO observations from current systems, and we would like to propose a platform for sharing questions, ideas, methods and tools.

Links to AO Workshops and Conferences:

• new: 2008 Keck AO workshop - UC Santa Cruz & CfAO.
• Workshop on Science Cases for Next Generation AO at Keck - UCSC /CfAO March 2007
• CfAO Spring Retreat 2007: Quantitative AO Science in Santa Cruz.
• Presentations from Ringberg 2007 workshop: Astronomy with LGS AO
• Presentations from the AO Science and AO Users' Session at the 2006 CfAO^? Fall Retreat.

Observational Specific

• High-contrast Imaging and Spectroscopy includes information about observations, data reduction, data analysis of faint sources in the vicinity of bright sources. Instrument-specific techniques are available under this page.
• Narrow-, Deep- Field Imaging and Spectroscopy includes information about observations, data reduction, data analysis of [faint] sources in field that are less than 10x10 arcsec (~ non-spatially variable PSF) . Instrument-specific techniques are available under this page.
• Wide-Field Imaging and Spectroscopy includes information about observations, data reduction, data analysis of sources spread in wider field: more than 20x20 arcsec with a spatially variable PSF . Specific techniques for an instrument (NIRC2) and specific questions (photometry) are available under this page...

AO/Instrument Specific

• Resource page for Keck II AO OSIRIS instrument
• Resource page for Keck II AO NIRC2 instrument
• Tabulated links for various AO systems and their instruments

AO Tool Box

• Photometry in crowded field
  • Star Finder
• Image Quality Tools:

Other Links and Material

• Some observational "key" papers include links to papers that are likely to help other AO users

Organizing the Resource Pages:

This was a first attempt to organize the resource page. It is not clear whether it should be organized differently, but if one could always use the search engine to find releant pages under this general page. Please, email your suggestions/remarks to David Le Mignant.