Light from astronomical objects must travel through the earth's turbulent atmosphere before it can be imaged by ground-based telescopes. To enable direct imaging at maximum theoretical angular resolution, advanced techniques such as those employed by the Robo-AO adaptive-optics system must be used.
@article{arxiv.1302.3224,
title = {Bringing the Visible Universe into Focus with Robo-AO},
author = {Christoph Baranec and Reed Riddle and Nicholas M. Law and A. N. Ramaprakash and Shriharsh P. Tendulkar and Khanh Bui and Mahesh P. Burse and Pravin Chordia and Hillol K. Das and Jack T. C. Davis and Richard G. Dekany and Mansi M. Kasliwal and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni and Timothy D. Morton and Eran O. Ofek and Sujit Punnadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3224},
year = {2013}
}
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