most citedAPF - The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder

192 citations · 277 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.IM2016★ 3 cited

Detailed Design of a Deployable Tertiary Mirror for the Keck I Telescope

J. Xavier Prochaska, Chris Ratliff, Jerry Cabak +16

Motivated by the ever increasing pursuit of science with the transient sky (dubbed Time Domain Astronomy or TDA), we are fabricating and will commission a new deployable tertiary m…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 43 cited

ShaneAO: wide science spectrum adaptive optics system for the Lick Observatory

Donald Gavel, Renate Kupke, Daren Dillon +14

A new high-order adaptive optics system is now being commissioned at the Lick Observatory Shane 3-meter telescope in California. This system uses a high return efficiency sodium be…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 17 cited

Swimming with ShARCS: Comparison of On-sky Sensitivity With Model Predictions for ShaneAO on the Lick Observatory 3-meter Telescope

Srikar Srinath, Rosalie McGurk, Constance Rockosi +10

The Lick Observatory's Shane 3-meter telescope has been upgraded with a new infrared instrument (ShARCS - Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera and Spectrograph) and dual-deformabl…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 22 cited

Commissioning ShARCS: the Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera-Spectrograph for the Lick Observatory 3-m telescope

Rosalie McGurk, Constance Rockosi, Donald Gavel +16

We describe the design and first-light early science performance of the Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera-Spectrograph (ShARCS) on Lick Observatory's 3-m Shane telescope. Desig…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 192 cited

APF - The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder

Steven S. Vogt, Matthew Radovan, Robert Kibrick +45

The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex ba…