The NIR arm of SHARK (System for coronagraphy with High order Adaptive optics from R to K band)
Abstract
SHARK is a proposal aimed at investigating the technical feasibility and the scientific capabilities of high contrast cameras to be implemented at LBT. Two channels are foreseen for SHARK, a near infrared channel and a visible one, both providing imaging and coronagraphic modes.
We describe here the NIR channel at the level of a conceptual study, performed in the framework of the call for proposal for LBT new instruments. The search of extra solar giant planets is the main science case, and it is presented elsewhere in this conference (see Cappellaro et al.).- Publication:
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Search for Life Beyond the Solar System. Exoplanets, Biosignatures & Instruments
- Pub Date:
- March 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014ebi..confP4.74F