Refereed Journals:

Adaptive Optics Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Young Stellar Objects in LK Halpha 225
R.I. Davies, M. Tecza, L.W. Looney, F. Eisenhauer, L.E. Tacconi-Garmann, N.Thatte, T. Ott, S. Rabien, S. Hippler, M. Kasper, submitted to ApJ (2000)

ALFA: The MPIA/MPE Laser Guide Star AO System
Eckart A., Hippler S., Glindemann A., Hackenberg W., Quirrenbach A., Kalas P., Kasper M., Davies R., Ott T., Rabien S., Butler D., Holstenberg H.-C., Looze D., Rohloff R.-R., Wagner K., Wilnhammer N., Hamilton D., Beckwith S., Appenzeller I., Genzel R., in: Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 1-3

Adaptive Optics on Large Telescopes
Glindemann A., Hippler S., Berkefeld T., Hackenberg W., Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 5-48

ALFA: Adaptive Optics for the Calar Alto Observatory
Optics, Control System, and Performance
Kasper M., Looze D., Hippler S., Herbst T., Glindemann A., Ott T., Wirth A., Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 49-74

The ALFA Laser and Analysis Tools
Rabien S., Ott T., Hackenberg W., Eckart A., Davies R., Kasper M., Quirrenbach A., in: Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 75-88

The ALFA Laser: Beam Relay and Control System
Ott T., Hackenberg W., Rabien S., Eckart A., Hippler S., Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 89-101

The ALFA Laser Guide Star: Operation and Results
Davies R., Eckart A., Hackenberg W., Ott, T., Butler D., Kasper M., Quirrenbach A., in: Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 103-121

Rayleigh scattering and laser spot elongation problems at ALFA
Viard E., Delplancke F., Hubin N., Ageorges N., Davies R., Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 123-138

Absolute tilt from a Laser Guide Star: a first experiment
Esposito S., Ragazzoni R., Riccardi A., Ageorges N., Redfern M., Davies R., Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 139-149

Short Timescale variability of the mesospheric sodium layer
O'Sullivan C., Redfern M., Ageorges N., Holstenberg H.-C., Hackenberg W., Rabien S., Ott T., Davies R., Eckart A., in: Experimental Astronomy Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 151-160

Near-infrared adaptive optics observations of galaxy clusters:
Abell 262 at z=0.0157, J1836.3CR at z=0.414, and PKS 0743-006 at z=0.994
Hackenberg, W., Eckart, A., Davies, R.J., Rabien, S., Ott, T., Kasper, M., Hippler, S., and Quirrenbach, A., accepted, A&A, 2000

The science potential of ALFA: adaptive optics with natural and laser guide stars
Davies, R., Hackenberg W., Ott A., Eckart A., Rabien S., Anders S., Hippler S., Kasper M., Kalas P., Quirrenbach A., Glindemann A., in: A&A sup. 138, 1999, pp. 345-353

Real-time modal control implementation for adaptive optics
Allan Wirth, Joseph Navetta, Douglas Looze, Stefan Hippler, Andreas Glindemann, and Donald Hamilton, in: Applied Optics Vol. 37, No. 21, 1998, pp. 4586-4597
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Conference Proceedings:

Diffraction Limited Imaging of High Redshift Galaxies with Adaptive Optics
R.I. Davies, M. Lehnert, A.J. Baker, S. Rabien, IAU Symposium 205 on Galaxies and their constituents at the higest resolutions, to be published in ASP conference series (2001)
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A practical approach to modal basis selecction and wavefront estimation
Kasper, M.E., Looze, D.P., Hippler, S., Feldt, M., Weiß, A.R., Glindemann, A., and Davies, R., SPIE 4007, 2000
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ALFA: three years of experience with adaptive optics with a laser guide star
Hippler, S., Kasper, M.E., Feldt, M., Weiß, A.R., Looze, D.P., Montoya, L., Aceituno, J., Ott, T., and Davies, R., SPIE 4007, 2000
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The impact of adaptive opticcs on star formation research
Feldt, M., Kasper, M.E., Eisenhauer, F., and Hippler, S., SPIE 4007, 2000
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ALFA & 3D: integral field spectroscopy with adaptive optics
Davies, R.I., Kasper, M., Thatte, N., Eecza, M., Tacconi-Garman, L.E., Anders, S., and Herbst, T., SPIE 4007, 2000
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Sodium layer monitoring at Calar Alto by LIDAR
Butler, D.J., Davies, R.I., Hayden, F., Redfern, M., Ageorges, N., Hackenberg, W., Rohloff, R.R., Rabien, S., Ott, T., and Hippler, S., SPIE 4007, 2000
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Increasing the sensitivity of a Shack-Hartmann sensor
Kasper, M., Looze, D., Hippler, S., Davies, R., Glindemann, A., in Proceedings of the Canterbury Conference on Wavefront sensing and its applications, Canterbury 1999, http://www.ukc.ac.uk/physical-sciences/main/School/submit.htm

Alternate location of this paper can be found here.

ALFA: Wavefront Sensing with Natural and Laser Guide Stars
Hippler, S., Feldt, M., Kasper, M., Davies, R., Glindemann, A., in Proceedings of the Canterbury Conference on Wavefront sensing and its applications, Canterbury 1999, http://www.ukc.ac.uk/physical-sciences/main/School/submit.htm

Alternate location of this paper can be found here.

Possibilities and Performance of Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics
Berkefeld, T., Glindemann, A., Hippler, S., in Proceedings of the Canterbury Conference on Wavefront sensing and its applications, Canterbury 1999, http://www.ukc.ac.uk/physical-sciences/main/School/submit.htm

Alternate location of this paper can be found here.

Beam quality and polarization analysis of the ALFA-Laser at Calar Alto and the influence on brightness and size of the laser guide star
Rabien S., Davies R., Hackenberg W., Eckart A., Ott T., Butler, D., SPIE 3762 (1999)
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Calar Alto ALFA and the sodium laser guide star in Astronomy
Butler, D., Davies R., Fews, H., Hackenberg, W., Rabien S., Ott T., Eckart A.,  Kasper, M., SPIE 3762 (1999)
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Adaptive Optics with Laser Guide Stars - The ALFA system
Ott, T., Eckart, A., Hackenberg, W., Rabien, S., Davies, R., Anders, S., Hippler, S., Kasper, M.,
ASP Conference Series, Dana Point 1999
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First Observational Results from ALFA with Natural and Laser Guide Stars
Davies R., Hackenberg W., Ott T., Eckart A., Rabien S., Anders S., Hippler S., Kasper M.. in Astronomy with Adaptive Optics, ed. D. Bonaccini, ESO Proc. 56, p.153, 1999; astro-ph/9810157
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Analysis tool and beam relay system for the ALFA laser
Rabien S., Davies R., Hackenberg W., Eckart A., Ott T., in  Astronomy with Adaptive Optics, ed. D. Bonaccini, ESO Proc. 56, p.371, 1999

The Mesospheric Sodium Layer at Calar Alto, Spain
O'Sullivan C., Redfern M., Ageorges N., Holstenberg H.-C., Hackenberg,W., Rabien S., Ott T., Davies R., Eckart A., in Astronomy with Adaptive Optics, ed. D. Bonaccini, ESO Proc. 56, p.333, 1999

LGS Light Pollution Investigation in Calar Alto
Delplancke F., Ageorges N., Hubin N., O'Sullivan C., in Astronomy with Adaptive Optics, ed. D. Bonaccini, ESO Proc. 56, p.501, 1999

Monitoring of laser guide star and light pollution
Ageorges N., Delplancke F., Hubin N., Redfern M., Davies R., in Propogation and Imaging through the atmosphere, SPIE 3763, 1999

Status of the ALFA project I
Eckart A., Davies R., Hackenberg W. Ott, T., Rabien S., Hippler S., Kasper M., Kalas P., Wagner K., Rohloff, R.-R., 1998, in Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Heidelberg

Status of the ALFA project II
Eckart A., Davies R., Hackenberg W. Ott, T., Rabien S., Hippler S., Kasper M., Kalas P., Wagner K., Rohloff, R.-R., 1998, in Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Heidelberg

ALFA: First Operational Experience of the MPE/MPIA Laser Guide Star System for Adaptive Optics
R.I. Davies, W. Hackenberg, T. Ott, A. Eckart, H.-C. Holstenberg, S. Rabien, A. Quirrenbach, and M. Kasper, in: Adaptive Optical System Technologies, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3353, 1998
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ALFA: The MPIA Adaptive Optics with a Laser for Astronomy Project
Stefan Hippler, Andreas Glindemann, Markus Kasper, Paul Kalas, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Karl Wagner, Douglas P. Looze, and Wolfgang Hackenberg, in: Adaptive Optical System Technologies, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3353, 1998, pp. 44-55
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Beating the seeing limit - Adaptive Optics on Large Telescopes
Andreas Glindemann, Habilitationsschrift, Heidelberg, Germany, 1997
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ALFA - The Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System for the Calar Alto 3.5-m Telescope
A. Glindemann, D. Hamilton, S. Hippler, R.-R. Rohloff, and K. Wagner, in: Laser Technology for Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Astronomy, Ed. N. Hubin, Garching, Germany, 1997, pp. 120-125, European Southern Observatory
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The ALFA Dye Laser System
A. Quirrenbach, W. Hackenberg, H.C. Holstenberg, and N. Wilnhammer, in: Laser Technology for Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Astronomy, Ed. N. Hubin, Garching, Germany, 1997, pp. 126-131, European Southern Observatory
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The Sodium Laser Guide Star System of ALFA
A. Quirrenbach, W. Hackenberg, H.C. Holstenberg, and N. Wilnhammer, in: Adaptive Optics and Applications, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3126, 1997, pp. 35-43
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Other:

Radio Sendung (Radius) des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bayern2Radio) vom 8. November 1999
Scharfe Bilder: Adaptive Optik mit dem Laser-Guide-Star
von Dagmar Neuhäuser

Adaptive Optik liefert erste Ergebnisse mit Laserleitstern
Stefan Hippler, Thomas Ott, Markus Feldt, Sebastian Rabien, Markus Kasper, SuW 8/99, Seite 632-634, 1999

Künstlicher Stern über dem Calar Alto, Teil 1
Andreas Glindemann und Andreas Quirrenbach, SuW 11/97, Seite 950-955, 1997

Künstlicher Stern über dem Calar Alto, Teil 2
Andreas Glindemann und Andreas Quirrenbach, SuW 12/97, Seite 1038-1044, 1997
 

FAZ Artikel vom 2. Oktober 1996

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