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Design and performance of the PALM-3000 3.5 kHz upgrade
Seth R. Meeker, Tuan N. Truong, Jennifer E. Roberts +11
PALM-3000 (P3K), the second generation adaptive optics (AO) instrument for the 5.1 meter Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory, was released as a facility class instrument in Octob…
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018
Alexis Hill, Nicolas Flagey, Alan McConnachie +122
(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the…
Know The Star, Know the Planet. IV. A Stellar Companion to the Host star of the Eccentric Exoplanet HD 8673b
Lewis C. Roberts, Brian D. Mason, Christopher R. Neyman +28
HD 8673 hosts a massive exoplanet in a highly eccentric orbit (e=0.723). Based on two epochs of speckle interferometry a previous publication identified a candidate stellar compani…
Reconnaissance of the HR 8799 Exosolar System II: Astrometry and Orbital Motion
L. Pueyo, R. Soummer, J. Hoffmann +30
We present an analysis of the orbital motion of the four sub-stellar objects orbiting HR8799. Our study relies on the published astrometric history of this system augmented with an…
PULSE: The Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets
Christoph Baranec, Richard G. Dekany, Rick S. Burruss +8
The Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets (PULSE) will dramatically expand the science reach of PALM-3000, the facility high-contrast extreme adaptive optics system…
Electric Field Conjugation with the Project 1640 coronagraph
Eric Cady, Christoph Baranec, Charles Beichman +25
The Project 1640 instrument on the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory is a coronagraphic instrument with an integral field spectrograph at the back end, designed to fin…
PULSE: Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets
Christoph Baranec, Richard Dekany, Marcos van Dam +1
PULSE is a new concept to augment the currently operating 5.1-m Hale PALM-3000 exoplanet adaptive optics system with an ultraviolet Rayleigh laser and associated wavefront sensor.…
The Kappa Andromedae System: New Constraints on the Companion Mass, System Age & Further Multiplicity
Sasha Hinkley, Laurent Pueyo, Jacqueline K. Faherty +29
Kappa Andromedae is a B9IVn star at 52 pc for which a faint substellar companion separated by 55 AU was recently announced. In this work, we present the first spectrum of the compa…
PALM-3000: Exoplanet Adaptive Optics for the 5-meter Hale Telescope
R. Dekany, J. Roberts, R. Burruss +17
We describe and report first results from PALM-3000, the second-generation astronomical adaptive optics facility for the 5.1-m Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory. PALM-3000 has…
Reconnaissance of the HR 8799 Exosolar System I: Near IR Spectroscopy
B. R. Oppenheimer, C. Baranec, C. Beichman +29
We obtained spectra, in the wavelength range λ= 995 - 1769 nm, of all four known planets orbiting the star HR 8799. Using the suite of instrumentation known as Project 1640 on the…
High Resolution Infrared Imaging & Spectroscopy of the Z Canis Majoris System During Quiescence & Outburst
Sasha Hinkley, Lynne Hillenbrand, Ben R. Oppenheimer +21
We present adaptive optics photometry and spectra in the JHKL-bands along with high spectral resolution K-band spectroscopy for each component of the Z Canis Majoris system. Our hi…
Constraining mass ratio and extinction in the FU Orionis binary system with infrared integral field spectroscopy
Laurent Pueyo, Lynne Hillenbrand, Gautam Vasisht +15
We report low resolution near infrared spectroscopic observations of the eruptive star FU Orionis using the Integral Field Spectrograph Project 1640 installed at the Palomar Hale t…
Spectral Typing of Late Type Stellar Companions to Young Stars from Low Dispersion Near-Infrared Integral Field Unit Data
Lewis C. Roberts, Emily L. Rice, Charles A. Beichman +22
We used the Project 1640 near-infrared coronagraph and integral field spectrograph to observe 19 young solar type stars. Five of these stars are known binary stars and we detected…
Application of a damped Locally Optimized Combination of Images method to the spectral characterization of faint companions using an Integral Field Spectrograph
Laurent Pueyo, Justin R. Crepp, Gautam Vasisht +14
High-contrast imaging instruments are now being equipped with integral field spectrographs (IFS) to facilitate the detection and characterization of faint substellar companions. Al…
Speckle Suppression with the Project 1640 Integral Field Spectrograph
Justin R. Crepp, Laurent Pueyo, Douglas Brenner +15
Project 1640 is a high-contrast imaging instrument recently commissioned at Palomar observatory. A combination of a coronagraph with an integral field spectrograph (IFS), Project 1…
A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory
Sasha Hinkley, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Neil Zimmerman +19
We describe a new instrument that forms the core of a long-term high contrast imaging program at the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The primary scientific thrust i…
Establishing Alpha Oph as a Prototype Rotator: Improved Astrometric Orbit
Sasha Hinkley, John D. Monnier, Ben R. Oppenheimer +24
The nearby star Alpha Oph (Ras Alhague) is a rapidly rotating A5IV star spinning at ~89% of its breakup velocity. This system has been imaged extensively by interferometric techniq…
A Close Companion Search around L Dwarfs using Aperture Masking Interferometry and Palomar Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
David Bernat, Antonin H. Bouchez, Michael Ireland +22
We present a close companion search around sixteen known early-L dwarfs using aperture masking interferometry with Palomar laser guide star adaptive optics. The use of aperture mas…
Discovery and Characterization of a Faint Stellar Companion to the A3V Star Zeta Virginis
Sasha Hinkley, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Douglas Brenner +17
Through the combination of high-order Adaptive Optics and coronagraphy, we report the discovery of a faint stellar companion to the A3V star zeta Virginis. This companion is ~7 mag…
Parallactic Motion for Companion Discovery: An M-Dwarf Orbiting Alcor
Neil Zimmerman, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Sasha Hinkley +16
The A5V star Alcor has an M3-M4 dwarf companion, as evidenced by a novel astrometric technique. Imaging spectroscopy combined with adaptive optics coronagraphy allowed for the dete…