Performance characterization of the HiCIAO instrument for the Subaru Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Suzuki, Ryuji ^a,b   Kudo, Tomoyuki ^b   Hashimoto, Jun ^c   Carson, Joseph ^d   Egner, Sebastian ^b   Goto, Miwa ^d   Hattori, Masayuki ^b   Hayano, Yutaka ^b   Hodapp, Klaus ^e   Ito, Meguro ^b   Iye, Masanori ^b   Jacobson, Shane ^e   Kandori, Ryo ^b   Kusakabe, Nobuhiko ^b   Kuzuhara, Masayuki ^f   Matsuo, Taro ^b   Mcelwain, Michael ^g   Morino, Jun Ichi ^b   Oya, Shin ^b   Saito, Yoshihiko ^b   Shelton, Richard ^e   Stahlberger, Vern ^e   Suto, Hiroshi ^b   Takami, Hideki ^b   Thalmann, Christian ^d   Watanabe, Makoto ^b,h   Yamada, Hubert ^e   Tamura, Motohide ^b   more..

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Project   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adaptive optics; camera; coronagraph; high contrast; near infrared

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; CORONAGRAPH; CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLING; DETECTOR ARRAYS; DUAL-BEAM; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; HAWAII-2RG; HIGH CONTRAST; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; IMAGING MODES; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SAMPLING; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; NEAR INFRARED; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; READOUT NOISE; REFERENCE IMAGE; STREHL RATIO; SUBARU TELESCOPES;

CAMERAS; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS; STARS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 78149278932     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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