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
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Wallace, J. Kent
- Bartos, Randall D.
- Cetre, Sylvain
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Wizinowich, Peter
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Ragland, Sam
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Lilley, Scott
- Wetherell, Edward
- Doppmann, Greg
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Wang, Jason J.
- Morris, Evan C.
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Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste
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Martin, Emily C.
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Fitzgerald, Michael P.
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Ruane, Garreth
- Schofield, Tobias
- Suominen, Nick
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Calvin, Benjamin
- Wang, Eric
- Magnone, Kenneth
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Johnson, Christopher
- Sohn, Ji M.
- López, Ronald A.
- Bond, Charlotte Z.
- Pezzato, Jacklyn
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Sayson, Jorge L.
- Chun, Mark
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Skemer, Andrew J.
Abstract
The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a purpose-built instrument to demonstrate technological and instrumental concepts initially developed for the exoplanet direct imaging field. Located downstream of the current Keck II adaptive optic (AO) system, KPIC contains a fiber injection unit (FIU) capable of combining the high-contrast imaging capability of the AOs 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 > 30,000) 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
© 2021 The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. Paper 20188AS received Dec. 31, 2020; accepted for publication Jul. 27, 2021; published online Aug. 13, 2021. This work was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation through Grant No. 2019-1312. It has been previously submitted as an SPIE proceeding. 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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- Alternative title
- The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: a dedicated single-mode fiber injection unit for high-resolution exoplanet spectroscopy
- Eprint ID
- 111245
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20211006-171113651
- 2019-1312
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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2021-10-06Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Caltech groups
- Astronomy Department