First Light Adaptive Optics Images from the Keck II Telescope: A New Era of High Angular Resolution Imagery

By P. Wizinowich, D. S. Acton, C. Shelton, P. Stomski, J. Gathright, K. Ho, W. Lupton, K. Tsubota, O. Lai, C. Max and 8 more. 2000

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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• An X-Ray, Infrared, and Submillimeter Flare of Sagittarius A* (2007, methodology): “IR Data The W. M. Keck II 10 m telescope observed the Galactic center using the NIRC2 (PI: K. Matthews) near-IR camera and the laser guide star adaptive optics system (Wizinowich et al. 2000; van Dam et al. 2006) on 2006 July 17.”
• THE PALOMAR/KECK ADAPTIVE OPTICS SURVEY OF YOUNG SOLAR ANALOGS: EVIDENCE FOR A UNIVERSAL COMPANION MASS FUNCTION (2008, methodology): “At Keck, we used the facility AO system (Wizinowich et al. 2000) on Keck II and the NIRC2 near-IR camera in its 40 mas pix−1 mode, offering an FOV of 40.6′′×40.6′′.”
• THE HAWAII INFRARED PARALLAX PROGRAM. I. ULTRACOOL BINARIES AND THE L/T TRANSITION, (2012, methodology): “Depending on the target and observing conditions (see Table 5), we used laser guide star (LGS) AO (Wizinowich et al. 2006; van Dam et al. 2006) or natural guide star (NGS) AO (Wizinowich et al. 2000, 2004).”
• Adaptive Optics for Astronomy (2012, neutral): “This is close to the highest resolution direct optical image, which had a FWHM of 22mas and was achieved at 850 nm on the 10.2-m Keck II telescope in good atmospheric conditions (Wizinowich et al. 2000).”
• The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System: Overview (2006, background): “3 Current address: Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. systems have been in operation on the Keck II and Keck I Telescopes since 1999 (Wizinowich et al. 2000a, 2000b) and 2000, respectively.”
• ZODIACAL EXOPLANETS IN TIME (ZEIT). III. A SHORT-PERIOD PLANET ORBITING A PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE STAR IN THE UPPER SCORPIUS OB ASSOCIATION (2016, methodology): “Adaptive Optics Imaging and Aperture Masking On March 18 (UT), 2016 we obtained natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) imaging (Wizinowich et al. 2000) and non-redundant aperture masking (NRM) of K2-33 with the facility imager, NIRC2, on Keck II atop Maunakea.”
• PLANETS AROUND LOW-MASS STARS (PALMS). IV. THE OUTER ARCHITECTURE OF M DWARF PLANETARY SYSTEMS (2014, methodology): “Keck II/NIRC2 Adaptive Optics Imaging We carried out our observations at the Keck II 10 m telescope with the facility near-infrared imaging camera NIRC2 using natural guide star adaptive optics (NGSAO; Wizinowich et al. 2000) between August 2010 and August 2013 (Table 3).”
• SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope (2019, methodology): “…P1640 for Palomar (Oppenheimer et al. 2012; Hinkley et al. 2008, 2011), the LBT first-light AO system (Esposito et al. 2003), the Keck AO system (Wizinowich et al. 2000; van Dam et al. 2004) combined with the NIRC2 or OSIRIS instruments, the NICI instrument for Gemini (Chun et al. 2008) or…”
• ORBITAL PHASE VARIATIONS OF THE ECCENTRIC GIANT PLANET HAT-P-2b (2013, methodology): “Adaptive Optics Imaging In an attempt to directly image the body responsible for causing the linear RV trend, we observed HAT-P2 on May 29, 2012 using NIRC2 (PI: Keith Matthews) and the Keck II adaptive optics (AO) system at Mauna Kea (Wizinowich et al. 2000).”
• Planet Hunters IX. KIC 8462852-where's the flux? (2015, methodology): “We observed KIC 8462852 on UT 2014 Oct 16 using the natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) system (Wizinowich et al. 2000) of the 10-metre Keck II Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.”