TY - GEN
T1 - The keck planet imager and characterizer
T2 - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 2020
AU - Morris, Evan C.
AU - Wang, Jason J.
AU - Ruffio, Jean Baptiste
AU - Delorme, Jacques Robert
AU - Pezzato, Jacklyn
AU - Bond, Charlotte Z.
AU - Mawet, Dimitri
AU - Skemer, Andrew J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation through grants #2019-1312 and #2015-129. Part of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.
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© 2020 SPIE
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an upgrade to the Keck II adaptive optics system and instrument suite with the goal of improving direct imaging and high-resolution spectroscopic characterization capabilities for giant exoplanets. KPIC Phase I includes a fiber injection unit (FIU) downstream of a new pyramid wavefront sensor, coupling planet light to a single mode fiber fed into NIRSPEC, Keck's high-resolution infrared spectrograph. This enables high-dispersion spectroscopy (HDS) of directly imaged exoplanets at smaller separation and higher contrast, improving our spectral characterization capabilities for these objects. Here, we report performance results from the KPIC Phase I FIU commissioning, including analysis of throughput, stability, and sensitivity of the instrument.
AB - The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an upgrade to the Keck II adaptive optics system and instrument suite with the goal of improving direct imaging and high-resolution spectroscopic characterization capabilities for giant exoplanets. KPIC Phase I includes a fiber injection unit (FIU) downstream of a new pyramid wavefront sensor, coupling planet light to a single mode fiber fed into NIRSPEC, Keck's high-resolution infrared spectrograph. This enables high-dispersion spectroscopy (HDS) of directly imaged exoplanets at smaller separation and higher contrast, improving our spectral characterization capabilities for these objects. Here, we report performance results from the KPIC Phase I FIU commissioning, including analysis of throughput, stability, and sensitivity of the instrument.
KW - Exoplanets
KW - High contrast imaging
KW - High dispersion coronography
KW - High resolution spectroscopy
KW - W. M. Keck observatory
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2560852
DO - 10.1117/12.2560852
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106413762
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
A2 - Bryant, Julia J.
A2 - Motohara, Kentaro
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 14 December 2020 through 22 December 2020
ER -