@inproceedings{0eea0dd367bb4e0f9b3fb8d56ad5142b,
title = "Observing strategies for the NICI campaign to directly image extrasolar planets",
abstract = "We discuss observing strategy for the Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI) on the 8-m Gemini South telescope. NICI combines a number of techniques to attenuate starlight and suppress superspeckles: 1) coronagraphic imaging, 2) dual channel imaging for Spectral Differential Imaging (SDI) and 3) operation in a fixed Cassegrain rotator mode for Angular Differential Imaging (ADI). NICI will be used both in service mode and for a dedicated 50 night planet search campaign. While all of these techniques have been used individually in large planet-finding surveys, this is the first time ADI and SDI will be used with a coronagraph in a large survey. Thus, novel observing strategies are necessary to conduct a viable planet search campaign.",
keywords = "Adaptive optics, Extrasolar planets, Infrared, Instrumentation",
author = "Beth Biller and {\'E}tienne Artigau and Zahed Wahhaj and Markus Hartung and Liu, \{Michael C.\} and Close, \{Laird M.\} and Chun, \{Mark R.\} and Christ Ftaclas and Toomey, \{Douglas W.\} and Thomas Hayward",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1117/12.789565",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819472250",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Adaptive Optics Systems",
note = "Adaptive Optics Systems ; Conference date: 23-06-2008 Through 26-06-2008",
}