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Robo-AO Kitt Peak: Status of the system and deployment of a sub-electron readnoise IR camera to detect low-mass companions
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Abstract
We have started an initial three-year deployment of Robo-AO at the 2.1-m telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona as of November 2015. We report here on the project status and two new developments with the Robo-AO KP system: the commissioning of a sub-electron readnoise SAPHIRA near-infrared camera, which will allow us to widen the scope of possible targets to low-mass stellar and substellar objects; and, performance analysis and tuning of the adaptive optics system, which will improve the sensitivity to these objects. Commissioning of the near-infrared camera and optimizing the AO performance occur in parallel with ongoing visible-light science programs.
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© 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Robo-AO KP is a partnership between the California Institute of Technology, University of Hawaii Manoa, University of North Carolona, Chapel Hill, the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the National Central University, Taiwan. Robo-AO KP was supported by a grant from Sudha Murty, Narayan Murthy, and Rohan Murty. The Robo-AO instrument was developed with support from the National Science Foundation under grants AST-0906060, AST-0960343, and AST-1207891, the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, and by a gift from Samuel Oschin. C.B. acknowledges support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and R.J.C. from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant No. DGE-1144469.Attached Files
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- Sudha Murty
- NSF
- AST-0906060
- NSF
- AST-0960343
- NSF
- AST-1207891
- Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation
- Samuel Oschin
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- DGE-1144469
- Narayan Murthy
- Rohan Murty
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- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS)
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 9909