Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: concept and phased implementation

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The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a cost-effective upgrade path to the W.M. Keck observatory (WMKO) adaptive optics (AO) system, building on the lessons learned from first and second-generation extreme AO (ExA0) coronagraphs. KPIC will explore new scientific niches in exoplanet science, while maturing critical technologies and systems for future ground-based (TMT, FELT, GMT) and space-based planet imagers (HabEx, LUVOIR). The advent of fast low-noise IR cameras (IR-APD, MKIDS, electron injectors), the rapid maturing of efficient wavefront sensing (WFS) techniques (Pyramid, Zernike), small inner working angle (IWA) coronagraphs (e.g., vortex) and associated low-order wavefront sensors (LOWFS), as well as recent breakthroughs in high contrast high resolution spectroscopy, open new direct exoplanet exploration avenues that are complementary to planet imagers such as VLT-SPHERE and the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). For instance, the search and detailed characterization of planetary systems on solar-system scales around late-type stars, mostly beyond SPHERE and GPI's reaches, can be initiated now at WMKO.

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1. D. Mawet ; P. Wizinowich ; R. Dekany ; M. Chun ; D. Hall ; S. Cetre ; O. Guyon ; J. K. Wallace ; B. Bowler ; M. Liu ; G. Ruane ; E. Serabyn ; R. Bartos ; J. Wang ; G. Vasisht ; M. Fitzgerald ; A. Skemer ; M. Ireland ; J. Fucik ; J. Fortney ; I. Crossfield ; R. Hu and B. Benneke " Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: concept and phased implementation ", Proc. SPIE 9909, Adaptive Optics Systems V, 99090D (July 26, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2233658; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2233658
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3. 10.1117/12.2233658
4. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622026
5. http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622026
6. ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS V

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Exoplanets

high contrast imaging

small inner working angle coronagraphy

vortex coronagraph

on-axis segmented telescopes

apodization

Extremely Large Telescopes

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/622026
Date	26 July 2016
Creators	Mawet, D., Wizinowich, P., Dekany, R., Chun, M., Hall, D., Cetre, S., Guyon, O., Wallace, J. K., Bowler, B., Liu, M., Ruane, G., Serabyn, E., Bartos, R., Wang, J., Vasisht, G., Fitzgerald, M., Skemer, A., Ireland, M., Fucik, J., Fortney, J., Crossfield, I., Hu, R., Benneke, B.
Contributors	Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab, California Institute of Technology (United States), W. M. Keck Observatory (United States), California Institute of Technology (United States), Univ. of Hawaii (United States), Univ. of Hawaii (United States), W. M. Keck Observatory (United States), Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (United States), Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), The Univ. of Texas at Austin (United States), Univ. of Hawaii (United States), California Institute of Technology (United States), Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), California Institute of Technology (United States), Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States), Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (United States), Australian National Univ. (Australia), California Institute of Technology (United States), Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (United States), Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (United States), Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), California Institute of Technology (United States)
Publisher	SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article
Rights	© 2016 SPIE
Relation	http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?doi=10.1117/12.2233658