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PULSE: The Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets
Abstract
The Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets (PULSE) will dramatically expand the science reach of PALM-3000, the facility high-contrast extreme adaptive optics system on the 5-meter Hale Telescope. By using an ultraviolet laser to measure the dominant high spatial and temporal order turbulence near the telescope aperture, one can increase the limiting natural guide star magnitude for exquisite correction from m_V < 10 to m_V < 16. Providing the highest near-infrared Strehl ratios from any large telescope laser adaptive optics system, PULSE uniquely enables spectroscopy of low-mass and more distant young exoplanet systems, essential to formulating a complete picture of exoplanet populations.
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© 2014 SPIE. PALM-3000 was supported by the financial support of National Science Foundation through awards AST-0619922 and AST-1007046, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech Optical Observatories, and the generous philanthropy of Ron and Glo Helin. Development of the PALM-3000 high-order deformable mirror was funded by NASA SBIR award #NNG05CA21C. The Robo-AO system is supported by collaborating partner institutions, the California Institute of Technology and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. AST-0906060, AST-0960343, and AST-1207891, by a grant from the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation and by a gift from Samuel Oschin. C.B. acknowledges support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The successful deployment of PALM-3000 and Robo-AO could not have been possible without the notable talent and dedication of the entire Palomar Observatory staff. We gratefully acknowledge the specific contributions from Dan McKenna, John Henning, Steve Kunsman, Kajsa Peffer, Jean Mueller, Kevin Rykowski, Carolyn Heffner, Greg van Idsinga, Mike Doyle, Bruce Baker, Richard Walters, Karl Dunscombe, and Drew Roderick.Attached Files
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- Caltech Optical Observatories
- NNG05CA21C
- NASA
- Caltech
- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
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- AST-0960343
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- AST-1207891
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- Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Samuel Oschin
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