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Advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory

2010; SPIE; Volume: 7735; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.857823

1996-756X

Sean M. Adkins, T. E. Armandroff, Hilton Lewis, Chris Martin, Ian S. McLean, Constance M. Rockosi, Peter Wizinowich,

Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

In this paper we describe both recently completed instrumentation projects and our current development efforts in the context of the Observatory's science driven strategic plan which seeks to address key questions in observational astronomy for extra-galactic, Galactic, and planetary science with both seeing limited capabilities and high angular resolution adaptive optics capabilities. This paper will review recently completed projects as well as new instruments in development including MOSFIRE, a near IR multi-object spectrograph nearing completion, a new seeing limited integral field spectrograph for the visible wavelength range called the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, and the Keck Next Generation Adaptive Optics facility and its first light science instrument DAVINCI.