Presentations at the 2006 CfAO^? Fall Retreat during the AO Science and the AO Users sessions

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Science with Adaptive Optics Session

• Solar System
  • Conor Laver: Spaceships Can't Do Everything!

• Stellar Astronomy
  • James Graham, Marshall Perrin: PSF reconstruction for AO photometry and application to the stellar content of local group galaxies
  • Mike Fitzgerald: Keck AO for Circumstellar Debris
  • AO Studies of Low-mass Binary Stars
  • Andrea Stotle: The Arches: a young cluster at the Galactic center

• Extragalactic
  • CATS project - Claire Max, Jason Melbourne, David Koo, James Larkin: Recent Results from the Center for Adaptive Optics Treasury Survey, Including Observations of a z=1.3 Supernova
  • S. Wright: Kinematic Study of High Redshift Star Forming Galaxies

AO Users' Session

• AO imaging and astrometry by Jessica Lu (UCLA): *Imaging and astrometry with high spatial resolution data for the Galactic Center, including the issues of:
  • • Long wave-length imaging (Keck AO L' and Ms field-rotator mirror issues)
    • Plate scale variability
    • Distortion
    • Precision astrometery behind AO... current limits

• Spectral imaging of crowded field: the Galactic Center: Tuan Do (UCLA)
  • Data reduction and analysis of stars close to the GC and focus on:
    • What does the spectral information add to the (AO) imaging data for the GC
    • Observing strategy and calibrations requirements for small crowded field
    • Data reduction challenges and new dedicated routines(?)
    • What is the next step?

• High-contrast spectral imaging: the case of GQ Lup: Michael McElwain^? (UCLA)
  • Work on GQ Lup by Mike includes:
    • OSIRIS pre-planning, observing strategies for high-contrast
    • IFS comparison to traditional slit spectroscopy
    • Data reduction strategies and issues