PHARO: A Near-Infrared Camera for the Palomar Adaptive Optics System

Physics – Optics

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Instrumentation: Adaptive Optics

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We describe Cornell's near-infrared camera system PHARO (Palomar High Angular Resolution Observer) built for use with the JPL Palomar Adaptive Optics System on the 5 m Hale telescope. PHARO uses a 1024×1024 HgCdTe HAWAII detector for observations between 1 and 2.5 μm wavelength. An all-reflecting optical system provides diffraction-limited images at two scales, 25 and 40 mas pixel-1, plus a pupil imaging mode. PHARO also has a coronagraphic imaging capability and a long-slit grism spectroscopy mode at resolving power ~1500. The instrument has been in use with the AO system at Palomar since early 1998.

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