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Record W1982611976 · doi:10.1086/517619

Image Quality of Liquid‐Mirror Telescopes

2007· article· en· W1982611976 on OpenAlex
Paul Hickson, Réne Racine

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Bibliographic record

VenuePublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAdaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalUniversité du Québec à MontréalUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTelescopePhysicsOpticsZenithObservatoryWavelengthImage qualityPoint spread functionRemote sensingAstrophysicsGeologyImage (mathematics)

Abstract

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The quality of astronomical images obtained with the 3 m liquid‐mirror telescope (LMT) of the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) and with the University of British Columbia 6 m Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) is assessed and compared to that of conventional instruments. Analysis of star images in long‐exposure drift‐scan data indicates that the profile of the image core is primarily set by atmospheric turbulence. Defocused star images reveal the presence of low‐amplitude waves on the surface of the mercury, also seen in laboratory tests. The effect of these waves is to diffract light into the wings of the point‐spread function. Analysis of the intensity profiles of stellar images can therefore probe the structure of the mirror surface on scales smaller than the atmospheric coherence length, which is about an order of magnitude larger that the characteristic wavelengths of the surface waves. It is found that the rms surface height error produced by these waves was approximately 37 nm for the NODO LMT. Improvements to the rotational speed stability of liquid mirrors, reduction of the thickness of the mercury layer, and use of a protective Mylar cover have allowed the LZT to reduce this source of error to approximately 9 nm rms, thereby achieving an image quality approaching that of conventional telescopes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.290
Threshold uncertainty score0.303

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it