@inproceedings{972226aa850945058271951c5c3b4af8,
title = "Multi-core fibre-fed integral-field unit (MCIFU): Overview and first-light",
abstract = "The Multi-Core Integral-Field Unit (MCIFU) is a new diffraction-limited near-infrared integral-field unit for exoplanet atmosphere characterization with extreme adaptive optics (xAO) instruments. It has been developed as an experimental pathfinder for spectroscopic upgrades for SPHERE+/VLT and other xAO systems. The wavelength range covers 1.0 um to 1.6um at a resolving power around 5000 for 73 points on-sky. The MCIFU uses novel astrophotonic components to make this very compact and robust spectrograph. We performed the first successful on-sky test with CANARY at the 4.2 meter William Herschel Telescope in July 2019, where observed standard stars and several stellar binaries. An improved version of the MCIFU will be used with MagAO-X, the new extreme adaptive optics system at the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay telescope in Chile. We will show and discuss the first-light performance and operations of the MCIFU at CANARY and discuss the integration of the MCIFU with MagAO-X.",
keywords = "3d printing, Astrophotonics, Atmospheres, Exoplanets, Extreme adaptive optics, High-resolution spectroscopy, Multi-core fibre, Near-infrared",
author = "Haffert, {Sebastiaan Y.} and Harris, {Robert J.} and Alessio Zanutta and Pike, {Fraser A.} and Andrea Bianco and Edoardo Redaelli and Aur{\'e}lien Beno{\^i}t and MacLachlan, {David G.} and Ross, {Calum A.} and Itandehui Gris-S{\'a}nchez and Trappen, {Mareike D.} and Yilin Xu and Matthias Blaicher and Pascal Maier and Giulio Riva and Baptiste Sinquin and Caroline Kulcs{\'a}r and Bharmal, {Nazim Ali} and Eric Gendron and Lazar Staykov and Morris, {Tim J.} and Santiago Barboza and Norbert Muench and Lisa Bardour and L{\'e}onard Preng{\`e}re and Raynaud, {Henri Fran{\c c}ois} and Philip Hottinger and Theodoros Anagnos and James Osborn and Christian Koos and Thompson, {Robert R.} and Birks, {Tim A.} and Snellen, {Ignas A. G.} and Keller, {Christoph U.} and Laird Close and Males, {Jared R.}",
note = "Funding Information: MagAO-X is supported by NSF MRI Award #1625441. Funding Information: Support for this work was provided by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant #HST-HF2-51436.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Funding Information: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through project 326946494, {\textquoteright}Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through photonic Reformatting{\textquoteright} This project has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 730890. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 SPIE.; SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020 ; Conference date: 14-12-2020 Through 22-12-2020",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1117/12.2562719",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781510636835",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Laura Schreiber and Dirk Schmidt and Elise Vernet",
booktitle = "Adaptive Optics Systems VII",
address = "United States",
}