Coronagraph imager with adaptive optics (CIAO): description and first results

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Aug 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000spie.4008.1153t&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 4008, p. 1153-1161, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors, Masanori Iye; Alan F. Moorwood; Eds.

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Instrumentation and Detectors

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We describe a near-IR coronagraphic camera built for use with the Subaru 8.2-m telescope and its adaptive optics system. The purpose of this instrument CIAO is to obtain high-resolution images of faint objects in close vicinity of bright objects at IR wavelengths. Such a desire is strong in astronomy, especially in the study of companion brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets, circumstellar disks around both young stellar objects and main-sequence stars, jets and outflows form both young stellar objects and main-sequence stars, jets and outflows from both young stars and evolved stars, circumnuclear regions around AGNs, and host galaxies of QSOs. CIAO is a 1-5 micron camera with tow focal plate scales: 22 milli-arcsec/pixel and 11 milli-arcsec/pixel. The camera is equipped with the standard broad-band filters as well as a number of narrow-band filters. Choice of masks, filters and camera lenses and optical alignment with collimator and detector are made with cryogenic motors. CIAO utilizes one ALLADIN II 'science'-grade detector array manufactured by SBRC. Occulting masks whose diameter ranges from 0.1 to 3 arcsec and several types of pupil masks are selectable, all cooled down to about 60 K and the detector is cooled to about 30 K. Also available are a R

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