New developments in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory
Abstract
The W. M. Keck Observatory continues to develop new capabilities in support of our science driven strategic plan which emphasizes leadership in key areas of observational astronomy. This leadership is a key component of the scientific productivity of our observing community and depends on our ability to develop new instrumentation, upgrades to existing instrumentation, and upgrades to supporting infrastructure at the observatory. In this paper we describe the as measured performance of projects completed in 2014 and the expected performance of projects currently in the development or construction phases. Projects reaching completion in 2014 include a near-IR tip/tilt sensor for the Keck I adaptive optics system, a new center launch system for the Keck II laser guide star facility, and NIRES, a near-IR Echelle spectrograph for the Keck II telescope. Projects in development include a new seeing limited integral field spectrograph for the visible wavelength range called the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, a deployable tertiary mirror for the Keck I telescope, upgrades to the spectrograph detector and the imager of the OSIRIS instrument, and an upgrade to the telescope control systems on both Keck telescopes.
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© 2014 SPIE. The 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. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. Observatory operations are supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant and Cooperative agreement No. NNX13AH26A. The development of the near-IR tip-tilt sensor is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1007058. The development of the Keck II next generation laser is made possible through the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation, Friends of Keck Observatory, and the Thirty Meter Telescope Project. The development of the Keck II center launch facility is made possible in part by the support of the National Science foundation under Grant No. AST- 0923593 and the Friends of Keck Observatory. The development of KCWI is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Scientific Program Order No. 5 as issued for support of the Telescope Systems Instrumentation Program (TSIP), in accordance with Proposal No. AST-0335461 submitted by AURA and the Friends of Keck Observatory. The development of the K1DM3 is supported in part by National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1337609. The development of the OSIRIS spectrograph upgrade is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1311102. The development of the OSIRIS imager upgrade is supported by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The OSIRIS grating upgrade project was funded in part by the Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto. Our current work on PSF determination is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1207631.Attached Files
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- W. M. Keck Foundation
- NNX13AH26A
- NASA
- AST-1007058
- NSF
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation
- Friends of Keck Observatory
- Thirty Meter Telescope Project
- AST-0923593
- NSF
- AST-0335461
- NSF
- AST-1337609
- NSF
- AST-1311102
- NSF
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- AST-1207631
- NSF
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