Supernovae and extragalactic astronomy with laser guide star adaptive optics

Stuart D. Ryder; Seppo Mattila; Erkki Kankare; Petri Väisänen

doi:10.1117/12.2055641

21 July 2014 Supernovae and extragalactic astronomy with laser guide star adaptive optics

Stuart D. Ryder, Seppo Mattila, Erkki Kankare, Petri Väisänen

Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 91480D (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055641
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Using the latest generation of adaptive optics imaging systems together with laser guide stars on 8m-class telescopes, we are finally revealing the previously-hidden population of supernovae in starburst galaxies. Finding these supernovae and measuring the amount of absorption due to dust is crucial to being able to accurately trace the star formation history of our Universe. Our images are amongst the sharpest ever obtained from the ground, and reveal much about how and why these galaxies are forming massive stars (that become supernovae) at such a prodigious rate.

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Stuart D. Ryder, Seppo Mattila, Erkki Kankare, and Petri Väisänen "Supernovae and extragalactic astronomy with laser guide star adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 91480D (21 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055641

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