MCAO near-IR photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC 6388: MAD observations in crowded fields (2008)
Moretti, A., Piotto, G., Arcidiacono, C., Milone, A. P., Ragazzoni, R., Falomo, R., ...
Deep photometry of crowded fields, such as Galactic Globular Clusters, is severely limited by the actual resolution of ground-based telescopes. On the other hand, the Hubble Space Telescope does not...
Probing the Galactic Bulge with deep Adaptive Optics imaging: the age of NGC 6440 (2008)
Origlia, L., Lena, S., Diolaiti, E., Ferraro, F. R., Valenti, E., Fabbri, S., ...
We present first results of a pilot project aimed at exploiting the potentiality of ground based adaptive optics imaging in the near infrared to determine the age of stellar clusters in the Galactic...
Resolving Stellar Populations outside the Local Group: MAD observations of UKS2323-326 (2008)
Gullieuszik, M., Greggio, L., Held, E. V., Moretti, A., Arcidiacono, C., Bagnara, P., ...
We present a study aimed at deriving constraints on star formation at intermediate ages from the evolved stellar populations in the dwarf irregular galaxy UKS2323-326. These observations were also...
Beccari, G., Lanzoni, B., Ferraro, F. R., Pulone, L., Bellazzini, M., Pecci, F. Fusi, ...
We used a proper combination of multiband high-resolution and wide field multi-wavelength observations collected at three different telescopes (HST, LBT and CFHT) to probe Blue Straggler Star (BSS)...
Giallongo, E., Ragazzoni, R., Grazian, A., Baruffolo, A., Beccari, G., De Santis, C., ...
We present the characteristics and some early scientific results of the first instrument at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), the Large Binocular Camera (LBC). Each LBT telescope unit will be...
Go long, go deep: finding optical jet breaks for Swift-Era GRBs with the LBT (2008)
Dai, X., Garnavich, P. M., Prieto, J. L., Stanek, K. Z., Kochanek, C. S., Bechtold, J., ...
Go Long, Go Deep: Finding Optical Jet Breaks for Swift-Era GRBs with the LBT (2007)
Dai, X., Garnavich, P. M., Prieto, J. L., Stanek, K. Z., Kochanek, C. S., Bechtold, J., ...
Using the 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope, we observed six GRB afterglows from 2.8 hours to 30.8 days after the burst triggers to systematically probe the late time behaviors of afterglows including...
A near-ultraviolet view of the Inner Region of M31 with the Large Binocular Telescope (2007)
Beccari, G., Bellazzini, M., Clementini, G., Federici, L., Pecci, F. Fusi, Galleti, S., ...
We present a 900 sec, wide-field U image of the inner region of the Andromeda galaxy obtained during the commissioning of the blue channel of the Large Binocular Camera mounted on the prime focus of...
Layer-Oriented MCAO projects for 8-m class telescopes and possible scientific outcome (2007)
Lombini, M., Ragazzoni, R., Arcidiacono, C., Baruffolo, A., Cresci, G., Diolaiti, E., ...
Four projects exploiting Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics with Layer-Oriented wavefront sensing technique are being developed by our group in this period. The purpose of these projects is, in some...
Multiconjugated adaptive optics for ELTs: an enhancement of the PIGS setup (2006)
Meyer, E., Gaessler, W., Kellner, S. A., Diolaiti, E., Egner, S., Ragazzoni, R., ...
ELTs depend on Adaptive Optics (AO) to reach the diffraction limit. To achieve sufficient sky coverage with AO, several Laser Guide Stars (LGS) will be needed, but the finite distance of the LGSs...
MANU-CHAO: a laboratory ground-layer adaptive optics experiment (2006)
Egner, Sebastian E., Gaessler, Wolfgang, Ragazzoni, Roberto, LeRoux, Brice, Herbst, T. M., Farinato, J., ...
We present a laboratory setup of a Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics system. This system is a scaled-down version of the MCAO system of MAD (a MCAO system for the VLT) / LINC-NIRVANA (a Fizeau Imager for...
Status progress of AdOpt@TNG and offer to the international astronomical community (2006)
Cecconi, M., Ghedina, A., Bagnara, P., Baruffolo, A., Carmona Rodriguez, C. J., Cresci, G., ...
The Adaptive Optics Module of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (AdOpt@TNG) has enjoyed a huge refurbishment. A new WaveFront Sensing CCD (EEV39 80x80pixels by SciMeasure) has been mounted, allowing...
LINC-NIRVANA: Optical design of an interferometric imaging camera (2006)
Bizenberger, P., Diolaiti, E., Egner, S., Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Reymann, D., ...
Combining the two 8.4 m telescopes of the Large Binocular Telescope 1(LBT) offers the unique possibility to achieve diffraction limited images with 23 m spatial resolution. This requires an...
LINC-NIRVANA : MCAO toward extremely large telescopes (2005)
Gaessler, W., Arcidiacono, C., Egner, S., Herbst, T. M., Andersen, D., Baumeister, H., ...
PIGS - a new wavefront sensor conceopt for ELTs (2005)
Kellner, S., Ragazzoni, R., Gässler, Wolfgang, Diolaiti, E., Farinato, J., Adriciaco, C., ...
An adaptive 2 m class telescope for a microlensing search from Antarctica (2005)
Ragazzoni, R., Arcidiacono, C., Bono, G., Busso, M., Diolaiti, E., Farinato, J., ...
We describe the scientific rationale and the preliminary optomechanical design for a 2 m class telescope designed to achieve ground layer correction over a â15 arcmin Field of View (FoV) to be...
LINC-NIRVANA: the single arm MCAO experiment (2004)
Egner, Sebastian E., Gaessler, Wolfgang, Herbst, Tom M., Ragazzoni, Roberto, Stuik, Remko, Andersen, D. A., ...
The LINC-NIRVANA cryogenic interferometric camera (2004)
Bizenberger, P., Andersen, D., Baumeister, H., Beckmann, U., Diolaiti, E., Herbst, T., ...
LINC-NIRVANA : the single arm MCAO experiment (2004)
Egner, S. E., Gässler, W., Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Stuik, R., Andersen, D., ...
Speckle interferometry observations of asteroids at TNG (2003)
Cellino, A., Diolaiti, E., Ragazzoni, R., Hestroffer, D., Tanga, P., Ghedina, A.
The Speckle camera of the 3.5 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) has been used to measure apparent sizes and shapes of a number of main belt asteroids. The average size measurements are in a...
The red stellar population in NGC 1569 (2000)
Aloisi, A., Clampin, M., Diolaiti, E., Greggio, L., Leitherer, Claus, Nota, A., ...
We present HST NICMOS photometry of the resolved stellar population in NGC 1569. The CMD in the F110W and F160W photometric bands contains ~2400 stars with a formal photometric error < 0.1 mag down...
Analysis of isoplanatic high resolution stellar fields by Starfinder code (2000)
Diolaiti, E., Bendinelli, O., Bonaccini, D., Close, L., Currie, D., Parmeggiani, G.
We describe a new code for the deep analysis of stellar fields, designed for Adaptive Optics Nyquist-sampled images with high and low Strehl ratio. The Point Spread Function is extracted directly...
Diolaiti, E., Bendinelli, O., Bonaccini, D., Close, L. M., Currie, D. G., Parmeggiani, G.
StarFinder is a new code for the deep analysis of stellar fields, designed for well-sampled images with high and low Strehl ratio. It is organized in the form of a self-contained IDL widget-based...
Starfinder: a code for crowded stellar fields analysis (1999)
Diolaiti, E., Bendinelli, O., Bonaccini, D., Close, L., Currie, D., Parmeggiani, G.
Starfinder is an IDL code for the deep analysis of stellar fields, designed for well-sampled images with high and low Strehl factor. An important feature is represented by the possibility to measure...
An Algorithm for Crowded Stellar Fields Analysis (1998)
E. Diolaiti, O. Bendinelli, D. Bonaccini, G. Parmeggiani, F. Rigaut
We report the work in progress on a method to analyze Adaptive Optics images of stellar fields, using as an approximation of the instrumental PSF an intensity map extracted directly from the field....