HiCIAO: the Subaru Telescope's new high-contrast coronographic imager for adaptive optics

Klaus W. Hodapp; Ryuji Suzuki; Motohide Tamura; Lyu Abe; Hiroshi Suto; Ryo Kandori; Junichi Morino; Tetsuo Nishimura; Hideki Takami; Olivier Guyon; Shane Jacobson; Vern Stahlberger; Hubert Yamada; Richard Shelton; Jun Hashimoto; Alexander Tavrov; Jun Nishikawa; Nobuharu Ukita; Hideyuki Izumiura; Masahiko Hayashi; Tadashi Nakajima; Toru Yamada; Tomonori Usuda

doi:10.1117/12.788088

25 July 2008 HiCIAO: the Subaru Telescope's new high-contrast coronographic imager for adaptive optics

Klaus W. Hodapp, Ryuji Suzuki, Motohide Tamura, Lyu Abe, Hiroshi Suto, Ryo Kandori, Junichi Morino, Tetsuo Nishimura, Hideki Takami, Olivier Guyon, Shane Jacobson, Vern Stahlberger, Hubert Yamada, Richard Shelton, Jun Hashimoto, Alexander Tavrov, Jun Nishikawa, Nobuharu Ukita, Hideyuki Izumiura, Masahiko Hayashi, Tadashi Nakajima, Toru Yamada, Tomonori Usuda

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Proceedings Volume 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II; 701419 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788088
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The High-Contrast Coronographic Imager for Adaptive Optics (HiCIAO), is a coronographic simultaneous differential imager for the new 188-actuator AO system at the Subaru Telescope Nasmyth focus. It is designed primarily to search for faint companions, brown dwarves and young giant planets around nearby stars, but will also allow observations of disks around young stars and of emission line regions near other bright central sources. HiCIAO will work in conjunction with the new Subaru Telescope 188-actuator adaptive optics system. It is designed as a flexible, experimental instrument that will grow from the initial, simple coronographic system into more complex, innovative optics as these technologies become available. The main component of HiCIAO is an infrared camera optimized for spectral simultaneous differential imaging that uses a Teledyne 2.5 μm HAWAII-2RG detector array operated by a Sidecar ASIC. This paper reports on the assembly, testing, and "first light" observations at the Subaru Telescope.

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Klaus W. Hodapp, Ryuji Suzuki, Motohide Tamura, Lyu Abe, Hiroshi Suto, Ryo Kandori, Junichi Morino, Tetsuo Nishimura, Hideki Takami, Olivier Guyon, Shane Jacobson, Vern Stahlberger, Hubert Yamada, Richard Shelton, Jun Hashimoto, Alexander Tavrov, Jun Nishikawa, Nobuharu Ukita, Hideyuki Izumiura, Masahiko Hayashi, Tadashi Nakajima, Toru Yamada, and Tomonori Usuda "HiCIAO: the Subaru Telescope's new high-contrast coronographic imager for adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, 701419 (25 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788088

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