KIR: the high-spatial-resolution 1024x1024 near-infrared camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Rene Doyon; Daniel Nadeau; Philippe Vallee; Barry Michael Starr; Jean-Charles Cuillandre; Jean-Luc Beuzit; F. Beigbeder; Sylvie Brau-Nogue

doi:10.1117/12.317211

21 August 1998 KIR: the high-spatial-resolution 1024 x 1024 near-infrared camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Rene Doyon, Daniel Nadeau, Philippe Vallee, Barry Michael Starr, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Jean-Luc Beuzit, F. Beigbeder, Sylvie Brau-Nogue

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Proceedings Volume 3354, Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317211
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 1998, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

KIR is a 1024 by 1024 near-IR camera used with the adaptive optics Bonnette (PUEO) of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The camera houses a 1024 by 1024 HgCdTe and simple refractive optics providing diffraction-limited images with an image scale of 0.035 inch/pixel. First light was obtained in December 1997. The throughput of the camera, from the top of the atmosphere down to the atmosphere down to the detector including PUEO, is 19 percent, 20 percent and 21 percent at J, H and K, respectively. This project is a collaboration between the Universite de Montreal, the Observatoire Midi Pyrenees and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The design and performance of the instrument are presented in this paper.

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Rene Doyon, Daniel Nadeau, Philippe Vallee, Barry Michael Starr, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Jean-Luc Beuzit, F. Beigbeder, and Sylvie Brau-Nogue "KIR: the high-spatial-resolution 1024 x 1024 near-infrared camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope", Proc. SPIE 3354, Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation, (21 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317211

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