A UV-visible prime focus camera for the Keck telescopes

Peter R. Gillingham, Jeff Cooke, Karl Glazebrook, Jeremy Mould, Roger M. Smith, Charles C. Steidel, Simon C. Ellis, Céline d'Orgeville
2020 Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019  
Many areas of astronomical research rely on deep blue wide-field imaging. Mauna Kea enjoys the very best UV transparency from the ground and the Keck telescopes with 10 meter f/1.75 primaries are well suited to a prime focus camera with a large angular field. Swinburne University leads a proposal to provide a camera (KWFI, for Keck Wide Field Imager) that is optimised in the UV but works well to 1µm wavelength. Keck has interchangeable top end modules, of which one is now unused and easily
more » ... le of housing the required corrector lens and detector enclosure. This paper concentrates on details of the KWFI optical design.
doi:10.1117/12.2540717 fatcat:k4esidwrozc33mpaiedpjchgjq