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Published July 14, 2010 | Version Published
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Advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory

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  • 1. ROR icon W.M. Keck Observatory
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, Los Angeles
  • 4. ROR icon University of California, Santa Cruz

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Abstract

In this paper we describe both recently completed instrumentation projects and our current development efforts in the context of the Observatory's science driven strategic plan which seeks to address key questions in observational astronomy for extra-galactic, Galactic, and planetary science with both seeing limited capabilities and high angular resolution adaptive optics capabilities. This paper will review recently completed projects as well as new instruments in development including MOSFIRE, a near IR multi-object spectrograph nearing completion, a new seeing limited integral field spectrograph for the visible wavelength range called the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, and the Keck Next Generation Adaptive Optics facility and its first light science instrument DAVINCI.

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© 2010 SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering. The W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The Observatory would like to acknowledge Gordon and Betty Moore for their support of the MOSFIRE instrument. This material is based in part upon work supported by AURA through the National Science Foundation under Scientific Program Order No. 5 as issued for support of the Telescope Systems Instrumentation Program (TSIP), in accordance with Proposal No. AST-0335461 submitted by AURA. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant and Cooperative agreement No. NNX08AH49A. This material is also based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. AST-0084699.

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71643
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Funding

W. M. Keck Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
NSF
AST-0335461
NASA
NNX08AH49A
NSF
AST-0084699

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Proceedings of SPIE
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7735