Please find below a list of relevant OSCA documents and papers that you can download and read. The downloads are in PDF format unless specified otherwise; you will require Adobe Acrobat reader to open them.

PhD thesis

OSCA, an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics, S. J. Thompson, University College London, 2004 (~10MB file)

Publications and conference proceedings

Results from the adaptive optics coronagraph at the William Herschel Telescope, S. J. Thompson, A. P. Doel, R. G. Bingham, A. Charalambous, R. M. Myers, N. Bissonauth, P. Clark, G. Talbot, MNRAS vol. 364, 4, 1203 (Dec 2005).

OSCA - The Coronographic Mask Device for NAOMI, S. G. Els, S. Thompson, P. Doel, P. Jolley, C. Benn, M. Blanken, T. Gregory, R. Ostensen, F. Prada, I. Soechting, The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, issue no. 7, p.17-18 (Dec 2003). (This link will take you to the ING website)

OSCA, an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics: Description and first light, S. J. Thompson, A. P. Doel, R. G. Bingham, A. Charalambous, R. M. Myers, N. Bissonauth, P. Clark, G. Talbot, SPIE vol. 4839, 1085 (2003)

Technical documents

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