Science with Adaptive Optics: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 16-19 September 2003

NAOMI – Adaptive Optics at the WHT....Pages 3-6
Status of Adaptive Optics Projects at ESO....Pages 7-17
Preliminary Commissioning Results of Altair....Pages 19-25
Lyot Coronagraphy at the Palomar and Phase-Mask Coronagraphy at the VLT....Pages 25-30
PIGS - A New Wavefront Sensor Concept for ELTs....Pages 31-34
Adaptive Optics for MUSE....Pages 36-41
NAOS-CONICA Observational Capabilities....Pages 42-46
NACO-SDI: A Novel Simultaneous Differential Imager for the Direct Imaging of Giant Extra-Solar Planets....Pages 46-52
One Year of NACO Operations....Pages 53-61
Note on Spectroscopy with Adaptive Optics....Pages 63-69
Quality Control and Data Flow Operations of NAOS-CONICA....Pages 69-74
Comparison of Astrometry and Photometry of the Galactic Bulge Between HST-NICMOS and NACO Data....Pages 75-78
Point Spread Function Analysis of the NACO Instrument at the VLT....Pages 79-82
Correlation Image Processing of Diagnostic Raw Data Collected with NAOS-CONICA....Pages 83-85
Wide-Field Post-Processing of Adaptive Optics Images....Pages 87-94
Simulations of Adaptive Optics with a Laser Guide Star for SINFONI....Pages 94-96
High Order Adaptive Optics Simulation Tool for VLTs and ELTs....Pages 97-102
Calibration of AO Systems. Application to NAOS-CONICA and Future “Planet-Finder” Systems....Pages 103-109
The Unique Antarctic Atmosphere: Implications for Adaptive Optics....Pages 111-117
Adaptive Optics Observations of the Sun....Pages 119-128
Penumbral Line Asymmetries Using KAOS....Pages 129-131
Simulations of Solar AO Systems....Pages 132-134
Selected Examples of Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Science with AO....Pages 136-146
Hot Massive Planets Around Nearby Young Stars – A Search with NACO at the VLT....Pages 146-151
Direct Detection of Exoplanets with Future Adaptive Optics Systems....Pages 152-157
Search for Sub-Stellar Companions Using AO – First Results Obtained with NAOS-CONICA....Pages 158-160
Adaptive Optics and Star Formation....Pages 163-172
High Angular Resolution Observations of Binary Brown Dwarfs....Pages 174-177
Close Companions to Nearby Young Stars from Adaptive Optics Imaging on VLT and Keck....Pages 177-182
A VLT/NACO Survey for Triple Systems Among Visual Pre-Main-Sequence Binaries....Pages 182-187
Coupled Adaptive Optics and Integral Field Spectroscopy of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars....Pages 189-195
An Adaptive Optics Search for Binaries in the Orion Nebula Cluster....Pages 197-203
A Search for Close Companions in Sco OB2....Pages 203-205
Dual Imaging Observations of Circumstellar Matter in TW Hydrae: The NACO View....Pages 206-210
Near-Infrared AO Spectroscopy of Edge-On Protoplanetary Disks with Subaru IRCS....Pages 211-213
Size Distribution of Disks in the Trapezium Cluster....Pages 214-216
The Origin of the Molecular Flow in Orion BN/KL: NAOS-CONICA Observations....Pages 217-222
NACO and PUEO-GriF Investigating Small Scale Structures and Velocity Fields in OMC1....Pages 223-228
Shocks and Star Formation in Orion: First Light with GriF....Pages 229-231
Imaging in Orion: NAOS-CONICA Adaptive Optics on the ESO-VLT....Pages 232-235
AO-Assisted Observations of Ultra-Compact H II Regions....Pages 236-241
The Structure of the Young Stellar Outflows Revealed by High Angular Resolution [Fe II] λ 1.644 μ m Spectroscopy....Pages 242-247
Resolving the Arches Starburst Cluster in the Galactic Center with NAOS-CONICA....Pages 248-250
Adaptive Optics Science with the MMT Adaptive Secondary: Mid-IR AO Imaging of the Post-AGB Star AC Her....Pages 253-260
Near-Infrared Imaging of Late Type Stars Using CIAO on the Subaru Telescope....Pages 261-263
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Proto-Planetary Nebulae....Pages 264-269
NAOS/CONICA Imaging of the Nebula Surrounding IRAS 17340–3757....Pages 270-272
Inward Bound: High Resolution AO Observations of the Galactic Center....Pages 275-277
Infrared Excess Sources in the Galactic Center Stellar Cluster....Pages 279-285
A Thermal Detection of Sgr A* ?....Pages 286-290
Nuclear Dynamics and Star Formation of AGN....Pages 291-297
NGC1068: Registration with Narrow Field of View and Morphology....Pages 298-304
NACO Observations of NGC 1068....Pages 306-311
The Nucleus of Centaurus A with NACO....Pages 311-315
Tracing the Coronal Line Region in AGN with VLT/NACO: The Very First Results....Pages 315-320
Adaptive Optics Observations of Stars in Globular Clusters and Nearby Galaxies....Pages 323-332
Surface Brightness Fluctuations: A Case for Extremely Large Telescopes....Pages 334-337
A Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Imaging Survey of Nearby QSOs....Pages 338-344
Altair Observations of 3C273....Pages 344-350
Near-Infrared High Resolution Spectroscopy of High-z QSO Absorption Systems with the Subaru Adaptive Optics System....Pages 352-358
Survey of a Wide Area with NACO (SWAN): Cosmology Near the VLT’s Diffraction Limit....Pages 359-365
Subaru Deep Field with Adaptive Optics....Pages 365-367
Using AO to Identify Damped Lyman α Absorption Systems at Redshift z ~ 2....Pages 369-375
Selection of Extragalactic Targets for AO and VLTI Observations....Pages 375-377
Distance Measurement with Adaptive Optics-Assisted Imaging: Looking Towards the Future....Pages 378-383