Cryogenic test results of the SCALES focal plane coronagraph mechanism

Michael Gonzales; R. Deno Stelter; Gabriel Kruglikov; Christopher Ratliff; William Deich; Nicholas MacDonald; Steph Sallum; Andrew Skemer

doi:10.1117/12.2594801

9 September 2021 Cryogenic test results of the SCALES focal plane coronagraph mechanism

Michael Gonzales, R. Deno Stelter, Gabriel Kruglikov, Christopher Ratliff, William Deich, Nicholas MacDonald, Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer

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Proceedings Volume 11823, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets X; 118231W (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594801
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

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We present preliminary laboratory cryogenic test results for the Coronagraph Slide mechanism, which allows observers the choice of up to 4 coronagraphic focal plane masks when using SCALES (Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy). SCALES is a 2-5 micron high-contrast lenslet integral field spectrograph currently undergoing preliminary design for the W. M. Keck Observatory. When deployed behind the Keck Adaptive Optics system, SCALES will be used to detect and characterize a wide variety of exoplanets. To minimize thermal emission, all optical and mechanical components of SCALES are fully cryogenic. The Coronagraph Slide is the first fully cryogenic mechanism for SCALES designed, built, and tested in-house at UCSC with mostly off-the-shelf components.

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Michael Gonzales, R. Deno Stelter, Gabriel Kruglikov, Christopher Ratliff, William Deich, Nicholas MacDonald, Steph Sallum, and Andrew Skemer "Cryogenic test results of the SCALES focal plane coronagraph mechanism", Proc. SPIE 11823, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets X, 118231W (9 September 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594801

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