Multi-core fibre-fed integral-field unit (MCIFU): overview and first-light

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert; Robert J. Harris; Alessio Zanutta; Fraser A. Pike; Andrea Bianco; Edoardo Redaelli; Aurélien Benoît; David G. MacLachlan; Calum A. Ross; Itandehui Gris-Sánchez; Mareike D. Trappen; Yilin Xu; Matthias Blaicher; Pascal Maier; Giulio Riva; Baptiste Sinquin; Caroline Kulcsár; Nazim Ali Bharmal; Eric Gendron; Lazar Staykov; Tim J. Morris; Santiago Barboza; Norbert Muench; Lisa Bardour; Léonard Prengère; Henri-François Raynaud; Philipp Hottinger; Theodoros Anagnos; James Osborn; Christian Koos; Robert R. Thompson; Tim A. Birks; Ignas A. G. Snellen; Christoph U. Keller; Laird Close; Jared R. Males

doi:10.1117/12.2562719

13 December 2020 Multi-core fibre-fed integral-field unit (MCIFU): overview and first-light

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Robert J. Harris, Alessio Zanutta, Fraser A. Pike, Andrea Bianco, Edoardo Redaelli, Aurélien Benoît, David G. MacLachlan, Calum A. Ross, Itandehui Gris-Sánchez, Mareike D. Trappen, Yilin Xu, Matthias Blaicher, Pascal Maier, Giulio Riva, Baptiste Sinquin, Caroline Kulcsár, Nazim Ali Bharmal, Eric Gendron, Lazar Staykov, Tim J. Morris, Santiago Barboza, Norbert Muench, Lisa Bardour, Léonard Prengère, Henri-François Raynaud, Philipp Hottinger, Theodoros Anagnos, James Osborn, Christian Koos, Robert R. Thompson, Tim A. Birks, Ignas A. G. Snellen, Christoph U. Keller, Laird Close, Jared R. Males

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Proceedings Volume 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII; 114484M (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562719
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The Multi-Core Integral-Field Unit (MCIFU) is a new diffraction-limited near-infrared integral-field unit for exoplanet atmosphere characterization with extreme adaptive optics (xAO) instruments. It has been developed as an experimental pathfinder for spectroscopic upgrades for SPHERE+/VLT and other xAO systems. The wavelength range covers 1.0 um to 1.6um at a resolving power around 5000 for 73 points on-sky. The MCIFU uses novel astrophotonic components to make this very compact and robust spectrograph. We performed the first successful on-sky test with CANARY at the 4.2 meter William Herschel Telescope in July 2019, where observed standard stars and several stellar binaries. An improved version of the MCIFU will be used with MagAO-X, the new extreme adaptive optics system at the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay telescope in Chile. We will show and discuss the first-light performance and operations of the MCIFU at CANARY and discuss the integration of the MCIFU with MagAO-X.

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Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Robert J. Harris, Alessio Zanutta, Fraser A. Pike, Andrea Bianco, Edoardo Redaelli, Aurélien Benoît, David G. MacLachlan, Calum A. Ross, Itandehui Gris-Sánchez, Mareike D. Trappen, Yilin Xu, Matthias Blaicher, Pascal Maier, Giulio Riva, Baptiste Sinquin, Caroline Kulcsár, Nazim Ali Bharmal, Eric Gendron, Lazar Staykov, Tim J. Morris, Santiago Barboza, Norbert Muench, Lisa Bardour, Léonard Prengère, Henri-François Raynaud, Philipp Hottinger, Theodoros Anagnos, James Osborn, Christian Koos, Robert R. Thompson, Tim A. Birks, Ignas A. G. Snellen, Christoph U. Keller, Laird Close, and Jared R. Males "Multi-core fibre-fed integral-field unit (MCIFU): overview and first-light", Proc. SPIE 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 114484M (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562719

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