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Searching for Ultracool Companions with NICI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

C. Ftaclas ,
E. L. Martín  and
D. Toomey
C. Ftaclas
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822
E. L. Martín
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822
D. Toomey
Affiliation:
IfA-Hilo and Mauna Kea Infrared

Abstract

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We present to the brown dwarf community the Near Infrared Coronographic Imager (NICI), which is being built for installation in 2005 on the Gemini South Telescope. NICI's dual channel architecture and dedicated AO system are designed to permit deep circumstellar discrimination of faint sources where some spectral key can be used to get a simultaneous estimate of the background. One of the principal science goals of NICI is to search for ultracool companions to stars and brown dwarfs.

Type
Part 9. Future Prospects
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 211: Brown Dwarfs , 2003 , pp. 521 - 522
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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