A UV-visible prime focus camera for the Keck telescopes

Peter Gillingham; Jeff Cooke; Karl Glazebrook; Jeremy Mould; Roger Smith; Charles Steidel

doi:10.1117/12.2540717

A UV-visible prime focus camera for the Keck telescopes

Peter Gillingham^*, Jeff Cooke, Karl Glazebrook, Jeremy Mould, Roger Smith, Charles Steidel

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Australian Astronomical Optics

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Abstract

Many areas of astronomical research rely on deep blue wide-field imaging. Mauna Kea enjoys the very best UV transparency from the ground and the Keck telescopes with 10 meter f/1.75 primaries are well suited to a prime focus camera with a large angular field. Swinburne University leads a proposal to provide a camera (KWFI, for Keck Wide Field Imager) that is optimized in the UV but works well to 1μm wavelength. Keck has interchangeable top end modules, of which one is now unused and easily capable of housing the required corrector lens and detector enclosure. This paper concentrates on details of the KWFI optical design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019
Editors	Simon Ellis, Céline d'Orgeville
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-2
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510631472
ISBN (Print)	9781510631465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540717
Publication status	Published - 3 Jan 2020
Event	Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 9 Dec 2019 → 12 Dec 2019

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Volume	11203
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	9/12/19 → 12/12/19

Keywords

Prime focus camera
UV imaging
Wide field corrector

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Gillingham, P, Cooke, J, Glazebrook, K, Mould, J, Smith, R & Steidel, C 2020, A UV-visible prime focus camera for the Keck telescopes. in S Ellis & C d'Orgeville (eds), Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019., 112030F, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 11203, SPIE, Bellingham, Washington, pp. 1-2, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 9/12/19. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540717

A UV-visible prime focus camera for the Keck telescopes. / Gillingham, Peter; Cooke, Jeff; Glazebrook, Karl et al.
Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019. ed. / Simon Ellis; Céline d'Orgeville. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2020. p. 1-2 112030F (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11203).

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