1. Simulations versus observations obtained with simultaneous differential imaging
- Author
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Rainer Lenzen, Wolfgang Brandner, Markus Hartung, Alessandro Berton, Markus Feldt, Stefan Kellner, Elena Masciadri, and Raffaele Gratton
- Subjects
Physics ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Exoplanet ,law.invention ,Telescope ,Optics ,Integral field spectrograph ,Planet ,law ,Code (cryptography) ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Angular resolution ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Adaptive optics ,business ,Image resolution ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics - Abstract
A dedicated code designed to simulate observations made with a high contrast imaging instrument using an integral field spectrograph and an extreme adaptive optics system (CHEOPS) is in progress. High contrast and high angular resolution are required in order to detect close faint companions and exo-planets using the differential technique. In this paper we present a comparison, made in order to validate the code, between simulations and observations recently obtained with the Simultaneous Differential Technique (SDI)\cite{len03}, an up-graded version of NACO (AO facility at the ESO-VLT 8m telescope "Yepun").
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- 2004