U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT University of California Observatories Director: Michael Bolte (UCSC) Associate Director: Ian S. McLean (UCLA)

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT UCO is a Multi-Campus Research Organization of the University of California with administrative center and optical labs in Santa Cruz and an infrared lab at UCLA. UCO is primarily in place to efficiently develop and manage the O/IR facilities for UC astronomers.

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT Campus Facilities UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) –Optics Laboratory –Laboratory for Adaptive Optics –Engineering Group (mechanical and electronics) –CCD Detector Laboratory –Scientific Programming Group –Administrative Services/Business office UC Los Angeles (UCLA) –Infrared Laboratory - led by UCO Associate Director Ian McLean –Design, development and fabrication of IR instruments –Responsible for Gemini (Lick); NIRSPEC, OSIRIS and MOSFIRE (Keck) –Provided KCAM, SHARC and part of NIRC2 for Keck AO –IRIS for TMT – Professor James Larkin (UCLA IR Lab) UCO is a “full service” instrument facility

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT Lick Observatory –3m telescope LGS AO –1m telescope –KAIT robotic telescope SN discovery –APF robotic telescope Vogt Planetometer

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT Lick Observatory Instrumentation Telescope Control System Guiders Hamilton echelle spectrometer (Vogt) Kast double spectrometer (Miller) PFCam, PF corrector, PF ADC (Bolte, Epps) Gemini Twin-channel IR imager/spectrometer (McLean) First astronomical AO system (Max/Gavel) First astronomical laser guide star (Max/Gavel) VILLAGES (MEMS-based optical AO system)

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT UCO instruments at Keck Observatory: –HIRES –ESI –DEIMOS –NIRSPEC (UCLA) –OSIRIS (UCLA) –K1 ADC –MOSFIRE (UCLA/CIT/UCSC) –HIRES detector upgrade –LRIS-R detector upgrade –Keck secondary mirrors

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT Grating cross-dispersed R=40000 spectrometer operating from 310nm- 1000nm 5 years/$4M completed in 1992, one of first three Keck instruments PI: Vogt Redefined IGM studies, dominated stellar abundance studies, discovered about 1/2 the known extra-solar planets HIRES

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT ESI: prism cross-dispersed optical echellette spectrometer and imager Best optical imager at Keck (0.3  FWHM) Space frame structure Small elastic flexure compensated with lookup table to 0.2 pixels RMS >30% total throughput at most order peaks PI: Miller, optical design: Epps, engineering: Radovan/Bigelow

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT Wide-field, two-arm optical MOS and imager Eight-CCD mosaic focal plane Active flexure compensation 19,000 lbs Optics fabrication at UCO $10.5M; PI Faber Most in-demand instrument at Keck Obs DEIMOS

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U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT Astronomical coatings facility MgF2 + sapphire with ion-assisted deposition, spin-coat 41-in prisms, harden and add hydrophobic treatment

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT NIRSPEC: the first cryogenic cross-dispersed IR echelle spectrometer; also has low-resolution mode and slit-viewing camera; 1-5 microns. OSIRIS: A lenslet-based Integral Field Spectrometer for microns for use with the Keck 2 Laser Guide Star AO system

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT MOSFIRE: a powerful multi- object spectrograph and imager for  m UCLA/UCO/Caltech collaboration that is working very well –PI: McLean (UCLA) –PS: Steidel (CIT) –Optics: Epps (UCO) –IR Detectors (UCLA) –Rotator (UCO) –Cryostat (CIT) –$12.5M Industry participation

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT UCO is committed to using the experience, infrastructure and expertise developed in building instruments for Lick and Keck Observatory, and applying that to the design and fabrication of instruments for TMT We are already into Conceptual Design for two instruments to be reported on later: –WFOS/MOBIE (Santa Cruz led) –IRIS (UCLA led) CONCLUSIONS

U NIVERSITY of C ALIFORNIA O BSERVATORIES LICK · KECK · TMT We recognize that these are very significant undertakings and anticipate and welcome partnerships to design and build major subsystems. MOSFIRE (Keck) and IRIS (TMT) compared 3.5 m CONCLUSIONS MOBIE IRIS