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Dr. Richard Dekany, Associate Director for Instrument Development
Palomar Telescopes
- 18" Schmidt Telescope, PI: F. Zwicky, 1936 - 2006(?) (Decommissioned)
- 200" Hale Telescope, PI: G. Hale, 1947 - Present, In Use
- 48" Samuel Oschin Telescope (Robotic), PIs: D. Hendricks, I. Bowen, et al., 1949 - Present, In Use
- 60" Telescope (Robotic), PI: ?, 1970 - Present, In Use
- Palomar Testbed Interferometer, PIs: M. Shao & M. Colavita, 1995 - 2009, Decommissioned
- Sleuth, Planet Search Telescope, PI: D. Charbonneau, 2004 - 2007, Decommissioned
- 24" Telescope, PI: M. Brown, 2006 - , Commissioning?
Palomar Instrumentation Projects (partial list)
Seeing-Limited
- Solid-block Schmidt camera (designed by Hendricks, optics from Mt Wilson optical shop) 1939 - ?, Decommissioned
- Prime focus pulse-counting photometer (PI: Baum) 1953 - ?, Decommissioned
- Single-channel photomultiplier (PI: B. Oke) ? - ?, Decommissioned
- "Multichannel" 32-channel spectrum scanner for Cass focus (PI: B. Oke) 1968 - ?, Decommissioned
- PFUEI (Prime Focus Universal Extragalactic Instrument, PI: J. Gunn) 1981? - ?, Decommissioned
- "The Bird Cage" High-speed chopper ?
- Cass Spectrometer ?
- "The Coffin" ?
- Millimeter Heterodyne system (PI: T. Phillips) ? - ?, Decommissioned)
- PIFS (Prime focus InfraRed Spectrograph, PI: ?) ? - ?, ?)
- D51 (5 micron detector, PI: K. Matthews) ? - ?, Decommissioned)
- D57 (10 micron bolometer, PI: K. Matthews) ? - ?, Decommissioned)
- D68 (Fast photometer, PI: K. Matthews) ? - ?, Decommissioned)
- "2D-Frutti" (PI: S. Shectman) late 1980's ?
- East Arm Echelle with Prime Focus Fiber Feed, PI: K. Libbrecht) ? - ?, Decommissioned)
- Cass IR (IR Imager & Spectrograph, PI: T. Soifer) ? - ?, In Use)
- F/9 Imager (Visible-light Imager & Guider, PI: ?) ? - ?, In Use)
- Norris Spectrograph (Multi-object Fiber-fed Visible-light Spectrograph, PI: J. Cohen) ? - ?, Decommissioned
- COSMIC (High-throughput Imager & Multi-slit Spectrograph, PI: A. Dressler) ? - Present, In Use
- DBSP (Medium Resolution, Dual-channel Visible-light Spectrograph, PIs: Oke & Gunn) 1982 - Present, In Use)
- Blue-side upgrade (PI: R. Smith) 2004
- Red-side computer upgrade (PI: R. Smith) 2005
- Red-side detector upgrade (PS: E. Kirby) 2011
- Four Shooter (Visible-light Imager, Spectrograph, and Multislit Spectrograph, PI: J. Gunn w/ J. Westphal) 1984? - ?, Decommissioned
- SpectroCam-10 (Mid-IR Imager & Spectrograph, PI: J. Houck) 1992 - Present, In Use (Rare)
- LFC (Large Format Visible-light Camera, PI: M. Metzger) 2000 - Present, In Use
- WIRC (Large Format IR Camera, PI: T. Herter) 2001 - Present, In Use
- Triplespec (Cross-dispersed simultaneous IR J,H,K Slit Spectrograph, PI: T. Herter) 2003 - Present, In Use
- East Arm Echelle (Visible-light Spectrograph, PI: K. Taylor) 2004 - Present, In Use
- CWI (Cosmic Web Imager (Near UV IFU Spectrograph), PI: C. Martin) 2006 - Present, In Use
- PTF (Palomar Transient Factory Wide-Field Mosaic Visible-light Imager, PI: S. Kulkarni) 2007 - Present, In Use
- ARCONS (MKIDS Demonstrator, PI: B. Mazin) 2009 - 2014 , Decommissioned (Private)
- SEDM (Spectral Energy Distribution Machine for 60", PI: N. Konidaris) 2010 - , In Use
- ZKI (Z-to-K Imager for wide-field, near-IR imaging on 200", PI: R. Dekany) 2010 - , Proposed, Not Funded
- MINERVA (Precision RV Spectrograph) (PI: J. Johnson) 2011 - , Proposed (Private), Transferred to Harvard U.
- WaSP (WAfer-Scale camera for Prime, 200" Wide-field visible CCD camera, PI: S. Kulkarni) 2012 - , Commissioning
- GASP at Palomar (200" High-Speed Stokes Polarimeter, PI: G. Hallinan) 2012 - , Development (Private)
- ZTF (Zwicky Transient Facility: Wider-Field Mosaic Visible-light Imager and Characterization Engines, PI: S. Kulkarni) 2013 - , Integration and Test
- CHIMERA (Moderate-field, high-speed imager, PI: G. Hallinan) 2012 - 2013, Decommissioned
- CHIMERA II (Wide-field, high-speed imager, PI: G. Hallinan, 2014 - , In Use
- DARKNESS (MKIDS Imaging Spectrograph, PI: B. Mazin) 2016 - , Commissioning (Private)
- WIRC-POL (WIRC Polarization and Detector Upgrade, PIs: D. Mawet, H. Knutson) 2015 -, In Use
Kitt Peak National Observatory 84-inch telescope (KPNO)
- KPED (PI: M. Coughlin) 2017 - 2021
- SEDM II (PI: S. Kulkarni) 2021 -
Diffraction-Limited
Adaptive Optics and Instruments
- PALMAO (NGS & Sodium LGS Adaptive Optics, PI: R. Dekany) 1995 - 2010, Decommissioned
- PALM-3000 (Visible-light Adaptive Optics Upgrade, PI: R. Dekany) 2006 - Present, In Use
- PHARO (IR J,H,K Imager, Slit Spectrograph, & Coronagraph, PIs: T. Hayward & B. Brandl) 1995- Present, In Use
- AMNH Project 1640 (An IR High-Contrast Speckle Suppression Optimized Coronagraph IFU Spectrograph, PI: B. Oppenheimer) 2005 - 2017, In Use
- SWIFT (Visible-light IFU Spectrograph, PI: N. Thatte) 2005 - Present, In Use
- AO Fiber Nuller (Experimental High-Contrast Nulling Interferometer, PI: E. Serabyn) 2006 - Present, In Use]]
- TMAS (Ten Milliarcsecond visible imaging camera for PALM-3000, PIs: R. Dekany and S. Hildebrandt) 2011 - , Development
- Stellar Double Coronagraph (SDC) for PALM-3000 (PI: E. Serabyn) 2011 - , Operations (Private)
- PALM-3000 WFS and RTC Upgrade (PI: D. Mawet) 2017-, Development
- Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets (PULSE) (Rayleigh LGS AO for high-contrast science around faint targets (V>15)) (PI: R. Dekany) 2017-, Proposed
- Palomar Habitable Zone Planet Finder (Infrared Precision RV Spectrograph) 2018-, Development
- Robo-AO (Low-cost, replicable, robotic laser adaptive optics and science system, PI: C. Baranec) 2007 - 2015, Survey Complete, Decommissioned
- Robo-AO Kitt Peak (PI: S. Kulkarni, PS: R. Riddle) 2015 - Present, In Use
- Visible Camera (PI: C. Baranec) 2011 - Present, In Use
- Eyepiece/Visitor Port (PI: C. Baranec) 2011 - Present, In Use
- Infrared Camera (PI: C. Baranec) 2012 - 2017
Tools
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Palomar scanned drawing directory