The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer develops the Keck II telescope’s adaptive optics and instrument systems to enable infrared imaging and spectroscopy of gas giant exoplanets, explains Principal Investigator Dimitri Mawet.
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KPIC is supported by grants from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Caltech, JPL and NSF AST-1611623.
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Mawet, D. Enabling high-res exoplanet spectroscopy at Keck. Nat Astron 5, 723 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01429-6
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