TIGER: A high contrast infrared imager for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Philip Hinz; Johanan Codona; Olivier Guyon; William Hoffmann; Andrew Skemer; Joseph Hora; Volker Tolls; Alan Boss; Alycia Weinberger; Paul Arbo; Thomas Connors; Olivier Durney; Thomas McMahon; Manny Montoya; Vidhya Vaitheeswaran

doi:10.1117/12.926751

TIGER: A high contrast infrared imager for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Philip Hinz, Johanan Codona, Olivier Guyon, William Hoffmann, Andrew Skemer, Joseph Hora, Volker Tolls, Alan Boss, Alycia Weinberger, Paul Arbo, Thomas Connors, Olivier Durney, Thomas McMahon, Manny Montoya, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran

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Abstract

The Thermal Infrared imager for the GMT which provides Extreme contrast and Resolution (TIGER) is intended as a small-scale, targeted instrument capable of detecting and characterizing exoplanets and circumstellar disks, around both young systems in formation, and more mature systems in the solar neighborhood. TIGER can also provide general purpose infrared imaging at wavelengths from 1.5-14 μm. The instrument will utilize the facility adaptive optics (AO) system. With its operation at NIR to MIR wavelengths (where good image quality is easier to achieve), and much of the high-impact science using modestly bright guide stars, the instrument can be used early in the operation of the GMT. The TIGER concept is a dual channel imager and low resolution spectrometer, with high contrast modes of observations to fulfill the above science goals. A long wavelength channel (LWC) will cover 7-14 μm wavelength, while a short wavelength channel (SWC) will cover the 1.5-5 μm wavelength region. Both channels will have a 30″ FOV. In addition to imaging, low-resolution spectroscopy (R=300) is possible with TIGER for both the SWC and LWC, using insertable grisms.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926751
State	Published - 2012
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: Jul 1 2012 → Jul 6 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8446
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	7/1/12 → 7/6/12

Keywords

Adaptive optics
ELT
GMT
Imaging
Infrared instruments

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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Hinz, P., Codona, J., Guyon, O., Hoffmann, W., Skemer, A., Hora, J., Tolls, V., Boss, A., Weinberger, A., Arbo, P., Connors, T., Durney, O., McMahon, T., Montoya, M., & Vaitheeswaran, V. (2012). TIGER: A high contrast infrared imager for the Giant Magellan Telescope. In Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV Article 84461P (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8446). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926751

TIGER: A high contrast infrared imager for the Giant Magellan Telescope. / Hinz, Philip; Codona, Johanan; Guyon, Olivier et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 2012. 84461P (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8446).

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Hinz, P, Codona, J, Guyon, O, Hoffmann, W, Skemer, A, Hora, J, Tolls, V, Boss, A, Weinberger, A, Arbo, P, Connors, T, Durney, O, McMahon, T, Montoya, M & Vaitheeswaran, V 2012, TIGER: A high contrast infrared imager for the Giant Magellan Telescope. in Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV., 84461P, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8446, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7/1/12. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926751

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