The Gemini Planet Imager: from science to design to construction
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE2008Vol. 7015, pp. 701518–701518
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Bruce Macintosh, James R. Graham, David W. Palmer, René Doyon, Jennifer Dunn, Donald T. Gavel, James Larkin, Rebecca Oppenheimer, Les Saddlemyer, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, J. Kent Wallace, Brian Bauman, Darren Erickson, Christian Marois, Lisa Poyneer, Rémi Soummer
Abstract
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a facility instrument under construction for the 8-m Gemini South telescope. It combines a 1500 subaperture AO system using a MEMS deformable mirror, an apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph, a high-accuracy IR interferometer calibration system, and a near-infrared integral field spectrograph to allow detection and characterization of self-luminous extrasolar planets at planet/star contrast ratios of 10-7. I will discuss the evolution from science requirements through modeling to the final detailed design, provide an overview of the subsystems and show models of the instrument's predicted performance.
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