TY - GEN
T1 - Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
T2 - Adaptive Optics Systems V
AU - Mawet, D.
AU - Wizinowich, P.
AU - Dekany, R.
AU - Chun, M.
AU - Hall, D.
AU - Cetre, S.
AU - Guyon, O.
AU - Wallace, J. K.
AU - Bowler, B.
AU - Liu, M.
AU - Ruane, G.
AU - Serabyn, E.
AU - Bartos, R.
AU - Wang, J.
AU - Vasisht, G.
AU - Fitzgerald, M.
AU - Skemer, A.
AU - Ireland, M.
AU - Fucik, J.
AU - Fortney, J.
AU - Crossfield, I.
AU - Hu, R.
AU - Benneke, B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 SPIE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a cost-effective upgrade path to the W.M. Keck observatory (WMKO) adaptive optics (AO) system, building on the lessons learned from first and second-generation extreme AO (ExAO) coronagraphs. KPIC will explore new scientific niches in exoplanet science, while maturing critical technologies and systems for future ground-based (TMT, EELT, GMT) and space-based planet imagers (HabEx, LUVOIR). The advent of fast low-noise IR cameras (IR-APD, MKIDS, electron injectors), the rapid maturing of efficient wavefront sensing (WFS) techniques (Pyramid, Zernike), small inner working angle (IWA) coronagraphs (e.g., vortex) and associated low-order wavefront sensors (LOWFS), as well as recent breakthroughs in high contrast high resolution spectroscopy, open new direct exoplanet exploration avenues that are complementary to planet imagers such as VLT-SPHERE and the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). For instance, the search and detailed characterization of planetary systems on solar-system scales around late-Type stars, mostly beyond SPHERE and GPI's reaches, can be initiated now at WMKO.
AB - The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is a cost-effective upgrade path to the W.M. Keck observatory (WMKO) adaptive optics (AO) system, building on the lessons learned from first and second-generation extreme AO (ExAO) coronagraphs. KPIC will explore new scientific niches in exoplanet science, while maturing critical technologies and systems for future ground-based (TMT, EELT, GMT) and space-based planet imagers (HabEx, LUVOIR). The advent of fast low-noise IR cameras (IR-APD, MKIDS, electron injectors), the rapid maturing of efficient wavefront sensing (WFS) techniques (Pyramid, Zernike), small inner working angle (IWA) coronagraphs (e.g., vortex) and associated low-order wavefront sensors (LOWFS), as well as recent breakthroughs in high contrast high resolution spectroscopy, open new direct exoplanet exploration avenues that are complementary to planet imagers such as VLT-SPHERE and the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). For instance, the search and detailed characterization of planetary systems on solar-system scales around late-Type stars, mostly beyond SPHERE and GPI's reaches, can be initiated now at WMKO.
KW - Apodization
KW - Exoplanets
KW - Extremely Large Telescopes
KW - High contrast high resolution spectroscopy
KW - High contrast imaging
KW - On-Axis segmented telescopes
KW - Small inner working angle coronagraphy
KW - Vortex coronagraph
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85002131213
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85002131213#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1117/12.2233658
DO - 10.1117/12.2233658
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85002131213
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Adaptive Optics Systems V
A2 - Marchetti, Enrico
A2 - Veran, Jean-Pierre
A2 - Close, Laird M.
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -