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---++ COO Optical/Infrared Group News Archive ---+++ 2013 * Spectral Energy Distribution Machine PI Nick Konidaris announces SEDM First Light (Jun 25, 2013) * PALM-3000 "s32" wavefront sensing mode commissioned at Palomar Mountain (Jun 15, 2013) ---+++ 2012 * Zwicky Transient Facility places initial order large-format CCD order (Nov 11, 2012) * TMAS sees First Light behind PALM-3000 (Sept 27, 2012) * [[http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Exoplanet-Hunters-Dim-the-Lights-162075015.html][P1640 and PALM-3000 begin high-contrast exoplanet survey (Jul 6, 2012)]] * [[http://keckobservatory.org/news/first_light_mosfire][MOSFIRE sees First Light at Keck Observatory (Apr 4, 2012)]] ---+++ 2011 * DBSP Red-side Upgrade successfully commissioned at Palomar Observatory (Nov 30, 2011) * PALM-3000 sets world's record with first high-order adaptive optics correction on-sky with 3,388 active-actuator Xinetics DM (June 22, 2011) * <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/Robo-AO/" target="_top">Robo-AO's</a> PI (Dr. Christoph Baranec) has been awarded funds from the <a href="http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14553" target="_top">Office of Naval Research/DURIP</a> to support research on astrometric error sources in !HgCdTe arrays (June 8, 2011) * [[http://www.astro.caltech.edu/Robo-AO/][Robo-AO]] granted funds from [[http://www.indousstf.org/][IUSSTF]] to hold a workshop on Robo-AO science, technology and further Indo-Caltech collaborations (Aug 22-25, Prof. Ramaprakash, Indian PI, Dr. Baranec, US PI; February 10, 2011) * Gattini-UV South Pole Camera (Dr. Anna Moore, PI) delivered to Amundsen-Scott Station (Jan 18, 2011) ---+++ 2010 * Successful commissioning of [[http://www.astro.caltech.edu/Robo-AO/][Robo-AO's UV laser guide star]] at Palomar Observatory (Sept 25, 2010) * MOSFIRE first light obtained in Caltech laboratory clean room (July 1, 2010) * First release of full PALM-3000 software delivered to Cahill PALM-3000 testbed (April 5, 2010) * Initial P1640 + CAL engineering run marks key step to integration of planet finding AO system (March 22, 2010) * [[http://www.astro.caltech.edu/Robo-AO/][Robo-AO]]'s real-time software to be used in Pomona College’s NGS version of Robo-AO at Table Mountain (Dr. Christoph Baranec, Sub-award PI, $100,000 from NSF MRI-R^2; March 4, 2010) ---+++ 2009 * [[http://www.astro.caltech.edu/Robo-AO/][Robo-AO]] (Dr. Christoph Baranec, PI) awarded $576,782 from NSF ATI program (June 15, 2009) * Gattini-UV South Pole Camera (Dr. Anna Moore, PI) awarded $311,706 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Public Law 111-5) (May 20, 2009) * MOSFIRE Project receives cryogenic slit mask (CSU) mechanism from CSEM, Switzerland (May 13, 2009) * Caltech Optical Observatories Instrumentation Group relocates to new Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (February 2, 2009) ---+++ 2008 * Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) mosaic imaging camera sees first light on the Samuel Oschin Telescope (December 13, 2008) * Oxford's SWIFT visible light integral field spectrograph sees first light with Palomar AO / Palomar LGS AO (October 12, 2008) * AMNH's P1640 IR speckle suppression integral field spectrocoronagraph sees first light with Palomar AO (July 8, 2008) * COO awarded $45K for Antarctic site testing research (June 14, 2008) * Four new seeing-limited instrument pre-concept studies for Keck given the go-ahead (May 12, 2008) * COO and JPL awarded $160K to study Non-linear Detector Effects in Weak Gravitational Lensing (February 14, 2008) ---+++ 2007 * Palomar Adaptive Optics + Lucky Cam named one of TIME magazine's 50 Best Inventions of the Year in 2007: * <a href=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678408_1678414,00.html>Link to TIME article</a> * Triplespec First Light - the Cornell-led, no moving parts, cross-dispersed echelle has successful first run on the 200" telescope (October 2, 2007) * Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) kicks off the development of MOSAIC, its wide-field imaging camera for the 48" Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar (October 1, 2007) * CAMERA, COO's <a href=http://eraserhead.caltech.edu/palomar/p60_public/p60.html>low cost MEMs AO testbed </a> locks loop in the Robinson Lab (August 15, 2007) * COO/JPL Palomar Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics achieves 48% K-band Strehl in superior seeing conditions at Palomar Mountain (July 29, 2007) ---+++ 2006 * COO awarded $1.1M by National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program for development of the visible-light PALM-3000 AO system on the 5.1m Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain (Sept 3, 2006)
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