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Published August 3, 2016 | Published
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New developments in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory

Abstract

The W. M. Keck Observatory is committed to maintaining the scientific leadership of our observing community by matching our observers' skills and passions in their fields of astronomical science with a continuing dedication by the Observatory and its collaborators to the development of state of the art instrumentation and systems. Our science driven strategic plan guides these developments and informs our plans for the future. In this paper we describe the performance of recently completed new instruments, instrument upgrades, and infrastructure upgrade projects. We also describe the expected performance of projects currently in the development or construction phases. Projects recently completed include a new laser for the Keck II AO system, the upgrade of the spectrograph detector in the OSIRIS instrument, and the upgrade to the telescope control system on the Keck II telescope. Projects in development include an upgrade to the telescope control system on the Keck I telescope, the blue channel of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, the red channel of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, the Keck Planet Finder, a deployable tertiary mirror for the Keck I telescope, an upgrade to the imager of OSIRIS, a major upgrade to the NIRSPEC instrument, and a fiber feed from the Keck II AO system to NIRSPEC.

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© 2016 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. 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 blue channel of KCWI is supported in part by a grant from 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. Support for KCWI has also come from the Heising-Simons Foundation and the Mount Cuba Foundation. Observatory operations are supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant and Cooperative Agreement No. NNX13AH26A. The OSIRIS spectrograph upgrade is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1311102, K1DM3 is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1337609, the red channel of KCWI is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1429890. The NIRSPEC upgrade is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1532315, and by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The OSIRIS grating upgrade project was funded in part by the Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto. The OSIRIS imager upgrade project is supported by funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Development of KPF is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

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