Planetary microlensing by lucky imaging method/Seminar Series 21

Speaker: Sedighe Sadjadian

Affiliation: Physics Department,Sharif University of Technology
Title:

Planetary microlensing by lucky imaging method

Date: 15 June 2011
Place: Seminar Series, Astronomy School, IPM

abstract:

Lucky imaging or lucky exposure technique improve angular resolution

of images by taking images faster that the atmospheric turbulence time

scale. In this method, by selecting the images with best strehl ratio,

recentering on the brightest image and combining them, a more resolved

image obtains. MindStep collaboration is supposed to use this method

in new observational season towards galactic bulge for detecting the

less massive exoplanets. Following this goal we investigate the best

strategy for using the lucky image camera in detecting exoplanets

according to the characteristic of Danish telescope. In this talk I

review all results from this study.