Design of the HiCIAO instrument for the subaru telescope

Klaus W. Hodapp, Motohide Tamura, Ryuji Suzuki, Shane Jacobson, Vern Stahlberger, Hubert Yamada, Hideki Takami, Olivier Guyon, Lyu Abe

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Abstract

HiCIAO, the High-Contrast Coronographic Imager for Adaptive Optics, is a coronographic simultaneous differential imager for the Subaru Telescope Nasmyth focus. It is designed primarily to search for faint companions, brown dwarves and young giant planets, around nearby stars, but will also allow observations of disks around young stars and of emission line regions near other bright central sources. HiCIAO will work in conjunction with the new Subaru Telescope 188 actuator adaptive optics system. It is designed as a flexible, experimental instrument that will grow from the initial, simple coronographic system into more complex, innovative coronographic optics as these technologies become available. The main component of HiCIAO is an infrared camera optimized for spectral simultaneous differential imaging that uses a 2.5 μm HAWAII-2RG detector array operated by a Rockwell Sidecar AS1C.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: May 25 2006May 29 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume6269 II
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherGround-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period5/25/065/29/06

Keywords

  • Coronographs
  • Infrared cameras
  • Optical design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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