Adaptive Optics Imaging of Binary Stars

摘要 McAlister，Harold AST-9421259 正在提供支助，以便利用1.0%的空间望远镜的自适应光学系统，对选定的双星群进行高空间分辨率研究。位于新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基附近的克特兰空军基地的美国空军星火光学靶场的2000米望远镜。 星火自适应光学系统的独特功能提供了直接成像双星的机会，角间距小至0.1角秒。 这将允许精确测量数百颗双星的微分星等和颜色，这些双星在角距范围内从未进行过此类研究。 * * *

ABSTRACT McAlister, Harold AST-9421259 Support is being provided to carry out a program of high spatial resolution studies of selected groups of binary stars using the adaptive optics system of the 1.%m telescope at the U.S. Air Force Starfire Optical Range located on Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The unique capabilities of the Starfire adaptive optics system provide the opportunity for directly imaging binaries with angular separations as small as 0.1 arcsecond. This will permit the accurate measurement of differential magnitudes and colors for hundreds of binary stars in a regime of angular separation never before available to such studies. * * *