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Monday 15 Nov 2010: Project 1640: an APLC IFU
Stephanie Hunt - IoA, University of Cambridge, UK
Physics, 4th Floor interaction area 11:00-12:00
Project 1640 is an innovative new high contrast imager, combining a Lyot Coronagraph and an Integral Field Spectrograph, mounted behind the Palomar Hale Telescope AO system. The instrument's hyperspectral nature permits both the application of speckle suppression techniques and the retrieval of broadband spectra for objects imaged. In addition, the instrument's spatial resolution allows companionship to be established with only 2 epochs of data, by analysis of shared parallax, as opposed to the more traditional shared proper motion.
