Recent progress at the Keck Interferometer: operations and V^2 science
Abstract
The Keck Interferometer combines the two 10m diameter Keck telescopes for near-infrared fringe visibility, and mid-infrared nulling observations. We report on recent progress with an emphasis on new visibility observing capabilities, operations improvements for visibility and nulling, and on recent visibility science. New visibility observing capabilities include a grism spectrometer for higher spectral resolution. Recent improvements include a new AO output dichroic for increased infrared light throughput, and the installation of new wave-front controllers on both Keck telescopes. We also report on recent visibility results in several areas including (1) young stars and their circumstellar disks, (2) pre-main sequence star masses, and (3) Circumstellar environment of evolved stars. Details on nuller instrument and nuller science results, and the ASTRA phase referencing and astrometry upgrade, are presented in more detail elsewhere in this conference.
Additional Information
© 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The Keck Interferometer is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Observations presented were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and NASA. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. Part of this work was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and at the Michelson Science Center, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA.Attached Files
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- Recent progress at the Keck Interferometer: operations and V2 science
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- 97137
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20190712-145157358
- NASA/JPL/Caltech
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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2019-07-12Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 7013