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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" 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
ARCON (MKIDS Demonstrator, PI: B. Mazin) 2009 - , Commissioning (Private)
SEDM
(Spectral Energy Distribution Machine for 60", PI: N. Konidaris) 2010 - , Development
ZKI (Z-to-K Imager for wide-field, near-IR imaging on 200", PI: R. Dekany) 2010 - , Proposed
MINERVA (Precision RV Spectrograph) (PI: J. Johnson) 2011 - , Proposed (Private)
WaSP (WAfer-Scale camera for Prime, 200" Wide-field visible CCD camera, PI: S. Kulkarni) 2012 - , Development
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) 2012 - , Proposed
CHIMERA (Moderate-field, high-speed imager, PI: G. Hallinan) 2012 - 2013, Decommissioned
CHIMERA II (Wide-field, high-speed imager, PI: G. Hallinan, 2014 - , Development
Diffraction-LImited
Adaptive Optics
PALMAO (NGS & Sodium LGS Adaptive Optics, PI: R. Dekany) 1995 - 2010, Decommissioned
PALM-MGSU (Natural Guide Star Tomography Demonstrator, PI: R. Dekany) 2001 - 2006, Decommissioned
LAMP (Experimental Fast-Frame-Rate Visible Imager & Polarimeter, PI: N. Law) 2006 - 2007, Decommissioned
PALM-3000 (Visible-light Adaptive Optics Upgrade, PI: R. Dekany) 2006 - Present, Commissioning
Robo-AO (Low-cost, replicable, robotic laser adaptive optics and science system, PI: C. Baranec) 2007 - Present, In Use
Instruments
PALM-3000
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 - Present, 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 - , Development (Private)
Robo-AO
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 - , Exp. 2013
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