SHARK-NIR commissioning and early science runs

Domenico Barbato; Jacopo Farinato; Andrea Baruffolo; Maria Bergomi; Andrea Bianco; Federico Biondi; Florian Briegel; Elena Carolo; Paolo Cerpelloni; Alexis Carlotti; Simonetta Chinellato; Albert Conrad; Marco De Pascale; Simone Di Filippo; Marco Dima; Valentina D'Orazi; Steve Ertel; Tania Sofia Gomes Machado; Davide Greggio; Juan Carlos Guerra; Thomas Henning; Justin Hom; John M. Hill; Fulvio Laudisio; Luigi Lessio; Alessandro Lorenzetto; Demetrio Magrin; Luca Marafatto; Dino Mesa; Doug Miller; Lars Mohr; Manny Montoya; Jennifer Power; Kalyan Radhakrishnan; Davide Ricci; Gabriele Umbriaco; Daniele Vassallo; Valentina Viotto; Greg Taylor; Alessio Zanutta; Ramya M. Anche; Simone Antoniucci; Carmelo Arcidiacono; Francesca Bacciotti; Pierre Baudoz; Angela Bongiorno; Laird Close; Simone Esposito; Paul Grenz; Olivier Guyon; Jarron M. Leisenring; Fernando Pedichini; Roberto Piazzesi; Enrico Pinna; Elisa Portaluri; Alfio Puglisi; Roberto Ragazzoni; Gabriele Rodeghiero; Fabio Rossi; Joseph V. Shields; Macarena Vega Pallauta

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SHARK-NIR commissioning and early science runs

Domenico Barbato, Jacopo Farinato, Andrea Baruffolo, Maria Bergomi, Andrea Bianco, Federico Biondi, Florian Briegel, Elena Carolo, Paolo Cerpelloni, Alexis Carlotti, Simonetta Chinellato, Albert Conrad, Marco De Pascale, Simone Di Filippo, Marco Dima, Valentina D'Orazi, Steve Ertel, Tania Sofia Gomes Machado, Davide Greggio, Juan Carlos GuerraThomas Henning, Justin Hom, John M. Hill, Fulvio Laudisio, Luigi Lessio, Alessandro Lorenzetto, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Marafatto, Dino Mesa, Doug Miller, Lars Mohr, Manny Montoya, Jennifer Power, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Gabriele Umbriaco, Daniele Vassallo, Valentina Viotto, Greg Taylor, Alessio Zanutta, Ramya M. Anche, Simone Antoniucci, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Francesca Bacciotti, Pierre Baudoz, Angela Bongiorno, Laird Close, Simone Esposito, Paul Grenz, Olivier Guyon, Jarron M. Leisenring, Fernando Pedichini, Roberto Piazzesi, Enrico Pinna, Elisa Portaluri, Alfio Puglisi, Roberto Ragazzoni, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Fabio Rossi, Joseph V. Shields, Macarena Vega Pallauta

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SHARK-NIR is an instrument providing high-contrast coronagraphic imaging, dual band imaging and low resolution spectroscopy in Y, J and H bands, taking advantage of the high performance of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) AO systems. Its main scientific drivers is the detection and characterization of exoplanets, circumstellar disks, Solar System small bodies and acrive galactic nuclei. Binocular observations are provided by exploiting the synergy with SHARK-VIS (operating in V band) and LMIRCam of LBTI (operating from K to M band). SHARK-NIR was shipped to LBT in June 2022, and up to November 2022 was the subject of the three pre-commissioning runs: the first to install and test the instrument in the high-bay LBT clean tent, the second to install and align the instrument to the telescope and the third to perform daytime testing. This pre-commissioning phase resulted in the successful alignment of the instrument with a very good internal optical quality and the performance of additional tests using simulated turbulence injected through LBT Adaptive Secondary Mirror. In January 2023 we had the first commissioning run and the instrument first light, in which we successfully tested the imaging capabilities with and without the Gaussian Lyot coronagraph. In March 2023 we had the second commissioning run, in which despite the bad weather we successfully performed a variety of technical activities, as well as preliminary testing of the Shaped Pupil coronagraph. After two additional commissioning runs in May and October, our first early scientific run in October 2023 focused on the Taurus star formation region, a region populated by targets of considerable scientific interest. In this paper we will give an overview of commissioning and the early science phases running from October 2023 to May 2024, focusing on the technical challenges we overcame and future work needed to push the instrument to its very limit, as well as presenting the first preliminary scientific results.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
Editors	Julia J. Bryant, Kentaro Motohara, Joel R. Vernet
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510675155
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020068
State	Published - 2024
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: Jun 16 2024 → Jun 21 2024

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	13096
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	6/16/24 → 6/21/24

Keywords

commissioning
coronagraphy
instrumentation
large binocular telescope
planet finding
SHARK-NIR

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

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Barbato, D., Farinato, J., Baruffolo, A., Bergomi, M., Bianco, A., Biondi, F., Briegel, F., Carolo, E., Cerpelloni, P., Carlotti, A., Chinellato, S., Conrad, A., De Pascale, M., Di Filippo, S., Dima, M., D'Orazi, V., Ertel, S., Machado, T. S. G., Greggio, D., ... Pallauta, M. V. (2024). SHARK-NIR commissioning and early science runs. In J. J. Bryant, K. Motohara, & J. R. Vernet (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X Article 130961W (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13096). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020068

SHARK-NIR commissioning and early science runs. / Barbato, Domenico; Farinato, Jacopo; Baruffolo, Andrea et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X. ed. / Julia J. Bryant; Kentaro Motohara; Joel R. Vernet. SPIE, 2024. 130961W (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13096).

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Barbato, D, Farinato, J, Baruffolo, A, Bergomi, M, Bianco, A, Biondi, F, Briegel, F, Carolo, E, Cerpelloni, P, Carlotti, A, Chinellato, S, Conrad, A, De Pascale, M, Di Filippo, S, Dima, M, D'Orazi, V, Ertel, S, Machado, TSG, Greggio, D, Guerra, JC, Henning, T, Hom, J, Hill, JM, Laudisio, F, Lessio, L, Lorenzetto, A, Magrin, D, Marafatto, L, Mesa, D, Miller, D, Mohr, L, Montoya, M, Power, J, Radhakrishnan, K, Ricci, D, Umbriaco, G, Vassallo, D, Viotto, V, Taylor, G, Zanutta, A, Anche, RM, Antoniucci, S, Arcidiacono, C, Bacciotti, F, Baudoz, P, Bongiorno, A, Close, L, Esposito, S, Grenz, P, Guyon, O , Leisenring, JM, Pedichini, F, Piazzesi, R, Pinna, E, Portaluri, E, Puglisi, A, Ragazzoni, R, Rodeghiero, G, Rossi, F, Shields, JV & Pallauta, MV 2024, SHARK-NIR commissioning and early science runs. in JJ Bryant, K Motohara & JR Vernet (eds), Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X., 130961W, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 13096, SPIE, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2024, Yokohama, Japan, 6/16/24. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020068

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