TY - GEN
T1 - On-sky operations with the ALES integral field spectrograph
AU - Stone, Jordan M.
AU - Skemer, Andrew J.
AU - Hinz, Philip
AU - Briesemeister, Zack
AU - Barman, Travis
AU - Woodward, Charles E.
AU - Skrutskie, Mike
AU - Leisenring, Jarron
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge support from NSF Collaborative Research grant 1608834. JMS is supported by NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51398.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. The LBT is an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy and Germany. LBT Corporation partners are: The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona university system; Is-tituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBT Beteiligungs-gesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University, and The Research Corporation, on behalf of The University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota and University of Virginia.
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© 2018 SPIE.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The integral field spectrograph configuration of the LMIRCam science camera within the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) facilitates 2 to 5 μm spectroscopy of directly imaged gas-giant exoplanets. The mode, dubbed ALES, comprises magnification optics, a lenslet array, and direct-vision prisms, all of which are included within filter wheels in LMIRCam. Our observing approach includes manual adjustments to filter wheel positions to optimize alignment, on/off nodding to track sky-background variations, and wavelength calibration using narrow band filters in series with ALES optics. For planets with separations outside our 1"x1" field of view, we use a three-point nod pattern to visit the primary, secondary and sky. To minimize overheads we select the longest exposure times and nod periods given observing conditions, especially sky brightness and variability. Using this strategy we collected several datasets of low-mass companions to nearby stars.
AB - The integral field spectrograph configuration of the LMIRCam science camera within the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) facilitates 2 to 5 μm spectroscopy of directly imaged gas-giant exoplanets. The mode, dubbed ALES, comprises magnification optics, a lenslet array, and direct-vision prisms, all of which are included within filter wheels in LMIRCam. Our observing approach includes manual adjustments to filter wheel positions to optimize alignment, on/off nodding to track sky-background variations, and wavelength calibration using narrow band filters in series with ALES optics. For planets with separations outside our 1"x1" field of view, we use a three-point nod pattern to visit the primary, secondary and sky. To minimize overheads we select the longest exposure times and nod periods given observing conditions, especially sky brightness and variability. Using this strategy we collected several datasets of low-mass companions to nearby stars.
KW - Exoplanet Characterization
KW - High-Contrast
KW - Integral Field Spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2313977
DO - 10.1117/12.2313977
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052628328
SN - 9781510619579
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
A2 - Simard, Luc
A2 - Simard, Luc
A2 - Evans, Christopher J.
A2 - Takami, Hideki
PB - SPIE
T2 - Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018
Y2 - 10 June 2018 through 14 June 2018
ER -