End-to-end simulation of the SCALES integral field spectrograph

Zackery Briesemeister; Steph Sallum; Andrew Skemer; R. Deno Stelter; Philip Hinz; Timothy Brandt

doi:10.1117/12.2562143

13 December 2020 End-to-end simulation of the SCALES integral field spectrograph

Zackery Briesemeister, Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, R. Deno Stelter, Philip Hinz, Timothy Brandt

Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114474Z (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562143
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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We present end-to-end simulations of SCALES, the third generation thermal-infrared diffraction limited imager and low/med-resolution integral field spectrograph (IFS) being designed for Keck. The 2-5 micron sensitivity of SCALES enables detection and characterization of a wide variety of exoplanets, including exoplanets detected through long-baseline astrometry, radial-velocity planets on wide orbits, accreting protoplanets in nearby starforming regions, and reflected-light planets around the nearest stars. The simulation goal is to generate high-fidelity mock data to assess the scientific capabilities of the SCALES instrument at current and future design stages. The simulation processes arbitrary-resolution input intensity fields with a proposed observation pattern into an entire mock dataset of raw detector read-out lenslet-based IFS frames with calibrations and metadata, which are then reduced by the IFS data reduction pipeline to be analyzed by the user.

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Zackery Briesemeister, Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, R. Deno Stelter, Philip Hinz, and Timothy Brandt "End-to-end simulation of the SCALES integral field spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114474Z (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562143

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