An on-sky investigation into factors limiting the performance of Keck-NIRC2 for conducting infrared high-contrast imaging

Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Maïssa Salama, Jayke S. Nguyen +2

The most common instrument used by the exoplanet/brown dwarf direct imaging community at the W.M. Keck Observatory is currently the NIRC2 near-infrared imager. We performed on-sky…