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Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer

(KPIC)
(extreme AO upgrade under development for Keck)

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an extreme adaptive optics system for Keck Observatory's NIRSPEC infrared spectrometer on Keck II, installed in 2018. It carries out speckle suppression, "cleaning up" incoming infrared, intending to make it possible to observe infrared from young gas giant extra-solar planets.


(instrument,imager,exoplanets)
Further reading:
https://etlab.caltech.edu/instruments/kpic
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JATIS...7c5006D/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04541
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~baranec/publications/kpic_whitepaper_2015_v4-1.pdf

Referenced by page:
Keck Observatory

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