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Published September 2, 2016 | Published
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The AIROPA software package - Milestones for testing general relativity in the strong gravity regime with AO

Abstract

General relativity can be tested in the strong gravity regime by monitoring stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center with adaptive optics. However, the limiting source of uncertainty is the spatial PSF variability due to atmospheric anisoplanatism and instrumental aberrations. The Galactic Center Group at UCLA has completed a project developing algorithms to predict PSF variability for Keck AO images. We have created a new software package (AIROPA), based on modified versions of StarFinder and Arroyo, that takes atmospheric turbulence profiles, instrumental aberration maps, and images as inputs and delivers improved photometry and astrometry on crowded fields. This software package will be made publicly available soon.

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© 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). We would like to acknowledgment the support and advice of our external advisory board: Rich Dekany, James Graham, Brent Ellerbroek, Andrei Tokovinin, Claire Max, Marcos van Dam, and Jay Anderson. We also acknowledge major funding from the W. M. Keck Foundation for the AO-Optimization project and the AIROPA software package.

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