TY - GEN
T1 - SCExAO, an instrument with a dual purpose
T2 - Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018
AU - Lozi, Julien
AU - Guyon, Olivier
AU - Jovanovic, Nemanja
AU - Goebel, Sean
AU - Pathak, Prashant
AU - Skaf, Nour
AU - Sahoo, Ananya
AU - Norris, Barnaby
AU - Martinache, Frantz
AU - N'Diaye, Mamadou
AU - Mazin, Ben
AU - Walter, Alex B.
AU - Tuthill, Peter
AU - Kudo, Tomoyuki
AU - Kawahara, Hajime
AU - Kotani, Takayuki
AU - Ireland, Michael
AU - Cvetojevic, Nick
AU - Huby, Elsa
AU - Lacour, Sylvestre
AU - Vievard, Sébastien
AU - Groff, Tyler D.
AU - Chilcote, Jeffrey K.
AU - Kasdin, Jeremy
AU - Knight, Justin
AU - Snik, Frans
AU - Doelman, David
AU - Minowa, Yosuke
AU - Clergeon, Christophe
AU - Takato, Naruhisa
AU - Tamura, Motohide
AU - Currie, Thayne
AU - Takami, Hideki
AU - Hayashi, Masa
N1 - Funding Information:
The development of SCExAO was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Research #23340051, #26220704 & #23103002), the Astrobiology Center of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan, the Mt Cuba Foundation and the directors contingency fund at Subaru Telescope. F. Martinache’s work is supported by the ERC award CoG - 683029. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument is an extremely modular high- contrast instrument installed on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. SCExAO has a dual purpose. Its position in the northern hemisphere on a 8-meter telescope makes it a prime instrument for the detection and characterization of exoplanets and stellar environments over a large portion of the sky. In addition, SCExAO's unique design makes it the ideal instrument to test innovative technologies and algorithms quickly in a laboratory setup and subsequently deploy them on-sky. SCExAO benefits from a first stage of wavefront correction with the facility adaptive optics AO188, and splits the 600-2400 nm spectrum towards a variety of modules, in visible and near infrared, optimized for a large range of science cases. The integral field spectrograph CHARIS, with its J, H or K-band high-resolution mode or its broadband low-resolution mode, makes SCExAO a prime instrument for exoplanet detection and characterization. Here we report on the recent developments and scientific results of the SCExAO instrument. Recent upgrades were performed on a number of modules, like the visible polarimetric module VAMPIRES, the high-performance infrared coronagraphs, various wavefront control algorithms, as well as the real-time controller of AO188. The newest addition is the 20k-pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKIDS) Exoplanet Camera (MEC) that will allow for previously unexplored science and technology developments. MEC, coupled with novel photon-counting speckle control, brings SCExAO closer to the final design of future high-contrast instruments optimized for Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs).
AB - The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument is an extremely modular high- contrast instrument installed on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. SCExAO has a dual purpose. Its position in the northern hemisphere on a 8-meter telescope makes it a prime instrument for the detection and characterization of exoplanets and stellar environments over a large portion of the sky. In addition, SCExAO's unique design makes it the ideal instrument to test innovative technologies and algorithms quickly in a laboratory setup and subsequently deploy them on-sky. SCExAO benefits from a first stage of wavefront correction with the facility adaptive optics AO188, and splits the 600-2400 nm spectrum towards a variety of modules, in visible and near infrared, optimized for a large range of science cases. The integral field spectrograph CHARIS, with its J, H or K-band high-resolution mode or its broadband low-resolution mode, makes SCExAO a prime instrument for exoplanet detection and characterization. Here we report on the recent developments and scientific results of the SCExAO instrument. Recent upgrades were performed on a number of modules, like the visible polarimetric module VAMPIRES, the high-performance infrared coronagraphs, various wavefront control algorithms, as well as the real-time controller of AO188. The newest addition is the 20k-pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKIDS) Exoplanet Camera (MEC) that will allow for previously unexplored science and technology developments. MEC, coupled with novel photon-counting speckle control, brings SCExAO closer to the final design of future high-contrast instruments optimized for Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs).
KW - Coronagraphy
KW - Extreme Adaptive Optics
KW - High-Contrast Imaging
KW - MKID
KW - Polarimetry
KW - Pyramid Wavefront Sensor
KW - Single-Mode Fiber Injection
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2314282
DO - 10.1117/12.2314282
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053494480
SN - 9781510619593
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Adaptive Optics Systems VI
A2 - Schmidt, Dirk
A2 - Schreiber, Laura
A2 - Close, Laird M.
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 10 June 2018 through 15 June 2018
ER -