The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: A dedicated single-mode fiber injection unit for high resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
- Creators
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Delorme, Jacques-Robert
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Jovanovic, Nemanja
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Echeverri, Daniel
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Mawet, Dimitri P.
- Wallace, J. Kent
- Bartos, Randall D.
- Cetre, Sylvain
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Wizinowich, Peter
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Ragland, Sam
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Wang, Jason
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Ruffio, Jean Baptist
- Lilley, Scott
- Wetherell, Edward
- Doppmann, Greg
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Fitzgerald, Michael
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Ruane, Garreth
- Shofield, Tobias
- Calvin, Benjamin
- Morris, Evan
- Pezzato, Jacklyn
- Llop Sayson, Jorge
- Magnone, Ken
- Johnson, Chris
- Shohn, Jiman
- Bond, Charlotte Z.
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Chun, Mark
- Suominen, Nick
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Skemer, Andy
Abstract
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a purpose-built instrument to demonstrate new tech- nological and instrumental concepts initially developed for the exoplanet direct imaging field. Located downstream of the current Keck II adaptive optic system, KPIC contains a fiber injection unit (FIU) capable of combining the high-contrast imaging capability of the adaptive optic system with the high dispersion spectroscopy capability of the current Keck high resolution infrared spectrograph (NIRSPEC). Deployed at Keck in September 2018, this instrument has already been used to acquire high resolution spectra (R < 35, 000) of multiple targets of interest. In the near term, it will be used to spectrally characterize known directly imaged exoplanets and low-mass brown dwarf companions visible in the northern hemisphere with a spectral resolution high enough to enable spin and planetary radial velocity measurements as well as Doppler imaging of atmospheric weather phenomena. Here we present the design of the FIU, the unique calibration procedures needed to operate a single-mode fiber instrument and the system performance.
Additional Information
© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). This work was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation through grant #2019-1312. 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 (NASA). The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Mauna Kea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.Attached Files
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Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 107298
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20210104-152311891
- 2019-1312
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- Created
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2021-01-04Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-09-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Astronomy Department
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 11447