The Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES) is the worlds first AO-fed thermal infrared integral field spectrograph, mounted inside the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) on the LBT. An initial mode of ALES allows 3-4 micron spectra at R~20 with 0.026 spaxels over a 1x1 field-of-view. We are in the process of upgrading ALES with additional wavelength ranges, spectral resolutions, and plate scales allowing a broad suite of science that takes advantage of ALESs unique ability to work at wavelengths >2 microns, and at the diffraction limit of the LBTs full 23.8 meter aperture.
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