The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel
- Creators
- Skemer, Andrew J.
- Stelter, Deno
- Mawet, Dimitri
- Fitzgerald, Michael
- Mazin, Benjamin
- Guyon, Olivier
- Marois, Christian
- Briesemeister, Zackery
- Brandt, Timothy
- Chilcote, Jeffrey
- Delorme, Jacques-Robert
- Jovanovic, Nemanja
- Lu, Jessica
- Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell
- Wallace, James
- Vasisht, Gautam
- Roberts, Lewis C., Jr.
- Wang, Ji
Abstract
We summarize the red channel (2-5 micron) of the Planetary Systems Imager (PSI), a proposed second-generation instrument for the TMT. Cold exoplanets emit the majority of their light in the thermal infrared, which means these exoplanets can be detected at a more modest contrast than at other wavelengths. PSI-Red will be able to detect and characterize a wide variety of exoplanets, including radial-velocity planets on wide orbits, accreting protoplanets in nearby star-forming regions, and reflected-light planets around the nearest stars. PSI-Red will feature an imager, a low-resolution lenslet integral field spectrograph, a medium-resolution lenslet+slicer integral field spectrograph, and a fiber-fed high-resolution spectrograph.
Additional Information
© 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The authors wish to acknowledge the Center for Adaptive Optics Fall Retreat and the TMT Science Forum, where much of this work originated. This paper is based on work funded by NSF Grants 1608834 and 1614320.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 91396
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20181203-101750008
- AST-1608834
- NSF
- AST-1614320
- NSF
- Created
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2018-12-03Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Thirty Meter Telescope, Astronomy Department
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 10702