MAGIQ at the W. M. Keck Observatory: initial deployment of a new acquisition, guiding, and image quality monitoring system

Adkins, Sean M.; Cohen, Judith G.; Aycock, J.; Bell, J.; Cohen, Richard W.; Cooper, Andrew; Goodrich, Bob; Johnson, Jimmy; Kwok, S.; Lyke, Jim; McCann, Kevin; Neyman, C.; Nordin, Tom; Panteleev, Sergey; Tolleth, Grant; Tsubota, Myrna

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“…Light from the Keck II telescope will feed the KPF Fiber Injection Unit (FIU), which will be located on the Nasmyth platform of the Keck II telescope. This system will include an atmospheric dispersion corrector (ADC), a tip/tilt mirror for image stabilization, a calibration light input, and the WMKO-standard MAGIQ 6 acquisition and guide camera. The FIU also focuses light from the telescope onto a science fiber, a sky fiber (located a few arcseconds away from the science fiber, to monitor contamination from moonlight and the sky background), and a fiber sending UV light to a small spectrometer monitoring the Calcium H & K spectral lines (to monitor magnetic activity that affects Doppler shifts).…”

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KPF: Keck Planet Finder

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KPF is a fiber-fed, high-resolution, high-stability spectrometer in development at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory for the W.M. Keck Observatory. The instrument is designed to characterize exoplanets via Doppler spectroscopy with a single measurement precision of 0.5 m s −1 or better, however its resolution and stability will enable a wide variety of astrophysical pursuits. KPF will have a 200 mm collimated beam diameter and a resolving power of > 80,000. The design includes a green channel (440 nm to 590 nm) and red channel (590 nm to 850 nm). A novel design aspect of KPF is the use of a Zerodur optical bench, and Zerodur optics with integral mounts, to provide stability against thermal expansion and contraction effects.

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Section: Fiber Injection Unitmentioning

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KPF: Keck Planet Finder

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“…Guider. The KCWI guider will be based on the MAGIQ guider currently implemented on several instruments at WMKO [8],[9l. The guider will have a baseline 2' FOY.…”

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The Keck Cosmic Web Imager

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We are designing the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) as a new facility instrument for the Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck ObselVatory (WMKO). KCWI is based on the Cosmic Web Imager (CWI), an instrument that has recently had first light at the Hale Telescope. KCWI is a wide-field integral-field spectrograph (IFS) optimized for precision sky limited spectroscopy of low surface brightness phenomena. KCWI will feature high throughput, and flexibility in field of view (FOV), spatial sampling, bandpass, and spectral resolution. KCWI will provide full wavelength coverage (0.35 to 1.05 !lm) using optimized blue and red channels. KCWI will provide a unique and complementary capability at WMKO (optical band integral field spectroscopy) that is directly connected to one of the ObselVatory's strategic goals (faint object, high precision spectroscopy), at a modest cost and on a competitive time scale, made possible by its simple concept and the prior demonstration of CWI.

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“…A mannequin is shown as an indication of the overall size. The tracking guider is detailed in the inset; it is located ahead of the science K-mirror and samples a field located 3.24' off axis with a standard 3' FOV MAGIQ guide camera [7] . The tracking guider follows guide stars as they rotate about the optical axis during observations.…”

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“…We have recently completed the third guider system upgrade using the Observatory's standard MAGIQ guide camera system [7] . This upgrade, to the slit guider of the HIRES instrument, was installed in February 2012 and commissioned in early March 2012.…”

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Advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory

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In this paper we describe both recently completed instrumentation projects and our current development efforts in terms of their role in the strategic plan, the key science areas they address, and their performance as measured or predicted. Projects reaching completion in 2012 include MOSFIRE, a near IR multi-object spectrograph, a laser guide star adaptive optics facility on the Keck I telescope, and an upgrade to the guide camera for the HIRES instrument on Keck I. Projects in development include a new seeing limited integral field spectrograph for the visible wavelength range called the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), an upgrade to the telescope control systems on both Keck telescopes, a near-IR tip/tilt sensor for the Keck I adaptive optics system, and a new grating for the OSIRIS integral field spectrograph.

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MAGIQ at the W. M. Keck Observatory: initial deployment of a new acquisition, guiding, and image quality monitoring system

Abstract: MAGIQ at the W. M. Keck Observatory: initial deployment of a new acquisition, guiding, and image quality monitoring system," Proc. SPIE 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, 70141U (

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KPF: Keck Planet Finder

KPF: Keck Planet Finder

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Advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory

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