PISCES Development and Status: An Integral Field Spectrograph for the High Contrast Imaging Testbed
Abstract
We present the development plans and status for PISCES, a visible light (0.4-1 micron) integral field spectrograph (IFS) for NASA’s High Contrast Imaging Testbed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. PISCES, the prototype imaging spectrograph for coronagraphic exoplanet studies, is a lenslet-based integral field spectrograph (IFS) with a diffraction limited spatial sampling and a spectral resolution of ~70. This prototype IFS will be the first to demonstrate the challenging high contrast instrument requirements to directly detect and characterize habitable exoplanets. PISCES will advance important technologies for the AFTA Coronagraph and the Exo-C Probe.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #223
- Pub Date:
- January 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014AAS...22334720M