Akeson, R. and Colavita, M. and Millan-Gabet, R. and Ragland, S. and Wizinowich, P. and Woillez, J. (2010) Recent Science Highlights from the Keck Interferometer. In: Optical and Infrared Interferometry II. Proceedings of SPIE (7734). Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 77340C. ISBN 978-0-8194-8224-2 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110322-081032857
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Abstract
The addition of new observational capabilities and continued sensitivity improvements have allowed observations with the Keck Interferometer to encompass new areas of astrophysics and expanded significantly the available sample size in areas which had been the focus of previous work. The technical details of the instrument techniques (including nulling, L-band and increased spectral resolution) are covered in other contributions to this conference. Here, we will highlight the astrophsyics enabled by these instruments including: a summary of the NASA Exo-zodical Dust Survey Key Project, observations across a range of dust temperatures with K and L-band measurements and faint target studies of active galactic nuclei and young stellar disks.
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| Additional Information: | © 2010 SPIE. The Keck Interferometer is funded by NASA and developed and operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboraotry (California Institute of Technology), the W.M. Keck Observatory and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (California Institute of Technology). Observations presented were obtained at the W.M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership amount the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and NASA. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W.M. Keck Foundation. We would like to thank J.U.Pott, A. Boden, J. Eisner and N. Stock for providing material. | ||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | Infrared interferometry; young stellar objects; active galactic nuclei | ||||||
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| Official Citation: | R. Akeson, M. Colavita, R. Millan-Gabet, S. Ragland, P. Wizinowich and J. Woillez, "Recent science highlights from the Keck Interferometer", Proc. SPIE 7734, 77340C (2010); doi:10.1117/12.856494 | ||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 07 Apr 2011 03:31 | ||||||
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