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

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 StaykovTim 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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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562719
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020 - Virtual, Online, USA United States Duration: 14 Dec 2020 → 22 Dec 2020

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Conference	Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020
Country/Territory	USA United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/12/20 → 22/12/20

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Funding Information:
Support for this work was provided by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant #HST-HF2-51436.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through project 326946494, ’Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through photonic Reformatting’ This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 730890.

Funding Information:
MagAO-X is supported by NSF MRI Award #1625441.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 SPIE.

Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

3d printing
Astrophotonics
Atmospheres
Exoplanets
Extreme adaptive optics
High-resolution spectroscopy
Multi-core fibre
Near-infrared

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Haffert, S. Y., Harris, R. J., Zanutta, A., Pike, F. A., Bianco, A., Redaelli, E., Benoît, A., MacLachlan, D. G., Ross, C. A., Gris-Sánchez, I., Trappen, M. D., Xu, Y., Blaicher, M., Maier, P., Riva, G., Sinquin, B., Kulcsár, C., Bharmal, N. A., Gendron, E., ... Males, J. R. (2020). Multi-core fibre-fed integral-field unit (MCIFU): Overview and first-light. Poster session presented at Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020, Virtual, Online, USA United States. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562719

Haffert, SY, Harris, RJ, Zanutta, A, Pike, FA, Bianco, A, Redaelli, E, Benoît, A, MacLachlan, DG, Ross, CA, Gris-Sánchez, I, Trappen, MD, Xu, Y, Blaicher, M, Maier, P, Riva, G, Sinquin, B, Kulcsár, C, Bharmal, NA, Gendron, E, Staykov, L, Morris, TJ, Barboza, S, Muench, N, Bardour, L, Prengère, L, Raynaud, HF, Hottinger, P, Anagnos, T, Osborn, J, Koos, C, Thompson, RR, Birks, TA, Snellen, IAG, Keller, CU, Close, L & Males, JR 2020, 'Multi-core fibre-fed integral-field unit (MCIFU): Overview and first-light', Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020, Virtual, Online, USA United States, 14/12/20 - 22/12/20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562719

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