ALES: Overview and upgrades

Andrew J. Skemer; Philip Hinz; Jordan Stone; Michael Skrutskie; Charles E. Woodward; Jarron Leisenring; Zackery Briesemeister

doi:10.1117/12.2314091

ALES: Overview and upgrades

Andrew J. Skemer, Philip Hinz, Jordan Stone, Michael Skrutskie, Charles E. Woodward, Jarron Leisenring, Zackery Briesemeister

Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

The Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES) is the world's first AO-fed thermal infrared integral field spectrograph, mounted inside the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) on the LBT. An initial mode of ALES allows 3-4 μm spectra at R 20 with 0.026" spaxels over a 1"x1" field-of-view. We are in the process of upgrading ALES with additional wavelength ranges, spectral resolutions, and plate scales allowing a broad suite of science that takes advantage of ALES's unique ability to work at wavelengths >2 microns, and at the diffraction limit of the LBT's full 23.8 meter aperture.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Editors	Luc Simard, Luc Simard, Christopher J. Evans, Hideki Takami
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Print)	9781510619579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314091
State	Published - 2018
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018 - Austin, United States Duration: Jun 10 2018 → Jun 14 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10702
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	6/10/18 → 6/14/18

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Funding Information:
This paper is based on work funded by NSF Grants 1608834 and 1614320.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 SPIE.

Keywords

Adaptive optics
exoplanet imaging
exoplanet instrumentation
integral field spectroscopy

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Skemer, A. J., Hinz, P., Stone, J., Skrutskie, M., Woodward, C. E., Leisenring, J., & Briesemeister, Z. (2018). ALES: Overview and upgrades. In L. Simard, L. Simard, C. J. Evans, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII Article 107020C (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10702). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314091

ALES: Overview and upgrades. / Skemer, Andrew J.; Hinz, Philip; Stone, Jordan et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. ed. / Luc Simard; Luc Simard; Christopher J. Evans; Hideki Takami. SPIE, 2018. 107020C (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10702).

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Skemer, AJ, Hinz, P, Stone, J, Skrutskie, M, Woodward, CE, Leisenring, J & Briesemeister, Z 2018, ALES: Overview and upgrades. in L Simard, L Simard, CJ Evans & H Takami (eds), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII., 107020C, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10702, SPIE, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018, Austin, United States, 6/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314091

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