MCAO Science Workshope Science Case Contribution Form

• Title
• PI + collaborators and institution
• Abstract
• Background Science
• Proposed observations
• Instrument requirements (field, spatial and spectral resolution, wavelength coverage)
• Sensitivity requirements
• Target density
• Time requirements
• Guide star availability
• Advantages over AO (try to quantify)
• Could this program be done with classical AO field of view (10-30") ?
• Is this program enabled by MCAO ? In what sense ?
• Does this program need a very uniform image quality ?
• Is this program benefiting from the gain in angular resolution or from the gain in sensitivity (or both) ?
• Complementarity with other future facilities (ALMA, NGST, ...)

Last update September 2, 2000; Francois Rigaut