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← ScienceWhich outcome results when adaptive optics functions incorrectly during long-exposure astronomical observation?
A)Increased atmospheric turbulence blurring✓
B)Reduced telescope structural vibrations
C)Better detector thermal stabilization
D)Precise mirror segment alignment
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Increased atmospheric turbulence blurring occurs when adaptive optics fail because the wavefront correction is not applied correctly through suboptimal calculations; the **Zernike decomposition** cannot correct for atmospheric distortions. Therefore, the image blurs rather than becoming sharp, and other telescope systems are unaffected.
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