The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): design and first-light

Martin, Emily C. and Skemer, Andrew J. and Radovan, Matthew V. and Allen, Steven L. and Black, David and Deich, William T. S. and Fortney, Jonathan J. and Kruglikov, Gabriel and MacDonald, Nicholas and Marques, David and Morris, Evan C. and Phillips, Andrew C. and Sandford, Dale and Valencia, Julissa Villalobos and Wang, Jason J. and Zachary, Pavl (2020) The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): design and first-light. In: Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. Proceedings of SPIE. No.11447. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 114470T. ISBN 9781510636811. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20201217-124457843

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Abstract

Exoplanets are abundant in our galaxy and yet characterizing them remains a technical challenge. Solar System planets provide an opportunity to test the practical limitations of exoplanet observations with high signal-to-noise data that we cannot access for exoplanets. However, data on Solar System planets differ from exoplanets in that Solar System planets are spatially resolved while exoplanets are unresolved point-sources. We present a novel instrument designed to observe Solar System planets as though they are exoplanets, the Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS). PEAS consists of a dedicated 0.5-m telescope and off-the-shelf optics, located at Lick Observatory. PEAS uses an integrating sphere to disk-integrate light from the Solar System planets, producing spatially mixed light more similar to the spectra we can obtain from exoplanets. This paper describes the general system design and early results of the PEAS instrument.

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URL	URL Type	Description
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560706	DOI	Article
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08675	arXiv	Discussion Paper

ORCID:

Author	ORCID
Martin, Emily C.	0000-0002-0618-5128
Skemer, Andrew J.	0000-0001-6098-3924
Fortney, Jonathan J.	0000-0002-9843-4354
Wang, Jason J.	0000-0003-0774-6502

Additional Information:

© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). PEAS is supported by the Heising Simons Foundation (Grant # 2019-1681). ECM acknowledges support from NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-1801978.

Funders:

Funding Agency	Grant Number
Heising Simons Foundation	2019-1681
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellowship	AST-1801978

Subject Keywords:

Exoplanet instrumentation, Solar System instrumentation, off-the-shelf optics, spectrograph, Lick Observatory

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Proceedings of SPIE

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11447

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CaltechAUTHORS:20201217-124457843

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https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20201217-124457843

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Emily C. Martin, Andrew J. Skemer, Matthew V. Radovan, Steven L. Allen, David Black, William T. S. Deich, Jonathan J. Fortney, Gabriel Kruglikov, Nicholas MacDonald, David Marques, Evan C. Morris, Andrew C. Phillips, Dale Sandford, Julissa Villalobos Valencia, Jason J. Wang, and Pavl Zachary "The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): design and first-light", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114470T (15 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560706

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