NaCo Contributed Library

This page contains link to useful papers that can be used as general reference for (AO assisted) IR observations or for NaCo specific observing modes or techniques. The papers have been listed either under the General interest category or under specific NaCo observing modes, if specialized

If you want to contribute a paper, please send it as an attachment with a short rationale to naco@eso.org.

General interest

• A new software tool for computing Earth's atmospheric transmssion of Near and Far-Infrared radiation
  by S. D. Lord, in NASA Tech. Mem. number 103957, 1992. (10Mb).
• Paranal NIR Extinction Coefficients
  by E. Mason et al.in 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop, pp. 439-442, 2007, Springer.

NaCo: general

• Status and new operation modes of the versatile VLT/NaCo
  by J. H. V. Girard et al (SPIE 2010)

NaCo SDI and SDI+

• Suppressing Speckle Noise for Simultaneous Differential Extrasolar Planet Imaging (SDI) at the VLT and MMT
  by B. A. Biller et al. in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science and Techniques, Proceedings IAU Colloquium No. 200, 2005.
• Contrast Limits with the Simultaneous Differential Extrasolar Planet Imager (SDI) at the VLT and MMT
  by B.A. Biller et. al in Advances in Adaptive Optics II, edited by Brent L. Ellerbroek, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6272., 2006.

Coronagraphy (4QPM)

• The four-quadrant phase mask coronagraph. I. Principle.
  by P. Riaud et al. in PASP Vol. 112, 2000.
• The four-quadrant phase mask coronagraph. II. Simulations.
  by P. Riaud A. et al. in PASP Vol 113, 2001.
• The four-quadrant phase mask coronagraph.III. Laboratory Performance.
  by P. Riaud et al. in PASP Vol. 115, 2003.
• The four-quadrant phase mask coronagraph. IV. First light at the VLT.
  by A. Boccaletti et al. in PASP Vol. 116, 2004.

Sparse Aperture Masking (SAM)

• Michelson Interferometry with the Keck I telescope
  by P.G. Tuthill et al. in PASP VOL 112, 2000
• Sparse-aperture Adative Optics
  by P.G. Tuthill et a. in SPIE Proceedings, vol. 6272, 2006.
• Direct Detection of the Brown Dwarf GJ 802B with Adaptive Optics Masking Interferometry
  by J.P. Lloyd et al. in Ap. J. vol.650, 2006.

Cube mode applications and useful hints for reduction

• The close circumstellar environment of Betelgeuse. Adaptive optics spectro-imaging in the NIR with VLT/NACO
  by P. Kervella et al., A&A, 2009
• Probing micro-arcsec Astrometry with NACO
  by A. Seifahrt et al.in 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop, pp. 271-275, 2007, Springer.

High Contrast Imaging applications

• A novel L-band imaging search for giant planets in the Tcana and Beta Pictoris moving groups
  by M. Kasper et al.,in Astronomy and Astrophysics Vol 472, Issue 1, pp321-327