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HIRES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT

HIRES will be the high-resolution spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. It consists of three fibre-fed spectrographs providing a wavelength coverage of 0.4-1.8 mic (goal 0.35-1.8…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Alessandro Marconi , Manuel Abreu , Vardan Adibekyan , Matteo Aliverti , Carlos Allende Prieto , Pedro J. Amado , Manuel Amate , Etienne Artigau , Sergio R. Augusto , Susana Barros , Santiago Becerril , Bjorn Benneke , Edwin Bergin , Philippe Berio , Naidu Bezawada , Isabelle Boisse , Xavier Bonfils , Francois Bouchy , Christopher Broeg , Alexandre Cabral , Rocio Calvo-Ortega , Bruno Leonardo Canto Martins , Bruno Chazelas , Andrea Chiavassa , Lise B. Christensen , Roberto Cirami , Igor Coretti , Stefano Cristiani , Vanderlei Cunha Parro , Guido Cupani , Izan de Castro Leao , Jose Renan de Medeiros , Marco Antonio Furlan de Souza , Paolo Di Marcantonio , Igor Di Varano , Valentina D'Odorico , Rene Doyon , Holger Drass , Pedro Figueira , Ana Belen Fragoso , Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo , Elena Gallo , Matteo Genoni , Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez , Martin Haehnelt , Julie Hlavacek Larrondo , Ian Hughes , Philipp Huke , Andrew Humphrey , Hans Kjeldsen , Andreas Korn , Driss Kouach , Marco Landoni , Jochen Liske , Christophe Lovis , David Lunney , Roberto Maiolino , Lison Malo , Thomas Marquart , Carlos J. A. P. Martins , Elena Mason , John Monnier , Manuel A. Monteiro , Christoph Mordasini , Tim Morris , Graham J. Murray , Andrzej Niedzielski , Nelson Nunes , Ernesto Oliva , Livia Origlia , Enric Palle , Giorgio Pariani , Phil Parr-Burman , Jose Penate , Francesco Pepe , Enrico Pinna , Nikolai Piskunov , Jose Luis Rasilla , Phil Rees , Rafael Rebolo , Ansgar Reiners , Marco Riva , Sylvain Rousseau , Nicoletta Sanna , Nuno C. Santos , Mirsad Sarajlic , Tzu-Chiang Shen , Francesca Sortino , Danuta Sosnowska , Sergio Sousa , Eric Stempels , Klaus G. Strassmeier , Fabio Tenegi , Andrea Tozzi , Stephane Udry , Luca Valenziano , Leonardo Vanzi , Michael Weber , Manfred Woche , Marco Xompero , Erik Zackrisson , Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio

Prospects of Stellar Abundance Studies from Near-IR Spectra Observed with the E-ELT

In 2006 ESO Council authorized a Phase B study of a European AO-telescope with a 42 m segmented primary with a 5-mirror design, the E-ELT. Several reports and working groups have already presented science cases for an E-ELT, specifically…

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EELT-HIRES the high-resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT

The first generation of E-ELT instruments will include an optical-infrared High Resolution Spectrograph, conventionally indicated as EELT-HIRES, which will be capable of providing unique breakthroughs in the fields of exoplanets, star and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. Marconi , P. Di Marcantonio , V. D'Odorico , S. Cristiani , R. Maiolino , E. Oliva , L. Origlia , M. Riva , L. Valenziano , F. M. Zerbi , M. Abreu , V. Adibekyan , C. Allende Prieto , P. J. Amado , W. Benz , I. Boisse , X. Bonfils , F. Bouchy , L. Buchhave , D. Buscher , A. Cabral , B. L. Canto Martins , A. Chiavassa , J. Coelho , L. B. Christensen , E. Delgado-Mena , J. R. De Medeiros , I. Di Varano , P. Figueira , M. Fisher , J. P. U. Fynbo , A. C. H. Glasse , M. Haehnelt , C. Haniff , C. J. Hansen , A. Hatzes , P. Huke , A. J. Korn , I. C. Leao , J. Liske , C. Lovis , P. Maslowski , I. Matute , R. A. McCracken , C. J. A. P. Martins , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , S. Morris , T. Morris , H. Nicklas , A. Niedzielski , N. J. Nunes , E. Palle , P. Parr-Burman , V. Parro , I. Parry , F. Pepe , N. Piskunov , D. Queloz , A. Quirrenbach , R. Rebolo Lopez , A. Reiners , D. T. Reid , N. Santos , W. Seifert , S. Sousa , H. C. Stempels , K. Strassmeier , X. Sun , S. Udry , L. Vanzi , M. Vestergaard , M. Weber , E. Zackrisson

Extreme Adaptive Optics in the mid-IR: The METIS AO system

Adaptive Optics at mid-IR wavelengths has long been seen as either not necessary or easy. The impact of atmospheric turbulence on the performance of 8-10 meter class telescopes in the mid-IR is relatively small compared to other performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Stuik , L. Jolissaint , S. Kendrew , S. Hippler , B. Brandl , L. Venema

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Instrument Overview

IRIS is a near-infrared (0.84 to 2.4 microns) integral field spectrograph and wide-field imager being developed for first light with the Thirty Meter (TMT). It mounts to the advanced optics (AO) system NFIRAOS and has integrated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 James E. Larkin , Anna M. Moore , Shelley A. Wright , James E. Wincentsen , David Anderson , Eric M. Chisholm , Richard G. Dekany , Jennifer S. Dunn , Brent L. Ellerbroek , Yutaka Hayano , Andrew C. Phillips , Luc Simard , Roger Smith , Ryuji Suzuki , Robert W. Weber , Jason L. Weiss , Kai Zhang

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph). ANDES consists of three fibre-fed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 A. Marconi , M. Abreu , V. Adibekyan , V. Alberti , S. Albrecht , J. Alcaniz , M. Aliverti , C. Allende Prieto , J. D. Alvarado Gómez , C. S. Alves , P. J. Amado , M. Amate , M. I. Andersen , S. Antoniucci , E. Artigau , C. Bailet , C. Baker , V. Baldini , A. Balestra , S. A. Barnes , F. Baron , S. C. C. Barros , S. M. Bauer , M. Beaulieu , O. Bellido-Tirado , B. Benneke , T. Bensby , E. A. Bergin , P. Berio , K. Biazzo , L. Bigot , A. Bik , J. L. Birkby , N. Blind , O. Boebion , I. Boisse , E. Bolmont , J. S. Bolton , M. Bonaglia , X. Bonfils , L. Bonhomme , F. Borsa , J. -C. Bouret , A. Brandeker , W. Brandner , C. H. Broeg , M. Brogi , D. Brousseau , A. Brucalassi , J. Brynnel , L. A. Buchhave , D. F. Buscher , L. Cabona , A. Cabral , G. Calderone , R. Calvo-Ortega , F. Cantalloube , B. L. Canto Martins , L. Carbonaro , Y. Caujolle , G. Chauvin , B. Chazelas , A. -L. Cheffot , Y. S. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , L. Christensen , R. Cirami , M. Cirasuolo , N. J. Cook , R. J. Cooke , I. Coretti , S. Covino , N. Cowan , G. Cresci , S. Cristiani , V. Cunha Parro , G. Cupani , V. D'Odorico , K. Dadi , I. de Castro Leão , A. De Cia , J. R. De Medeiros , F. Debras , M. Debus , A. Delorme , O. Demangeon , F. Derie , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , P. Di Marcantonio , S. Di Stefano , F. Dionies , A. Domiciano de Souza , R. Doyon , J. Dunn , S. Egner , D. Ehrenreich , J. P. Faria , D. Ferruzzi , C. Feruglio , M. Fisher , A. Fontana , B. S. Frank , C. Fuesslein , M. Fumagalli , T. Fusco , J. Fynbo , O. Gabella , W. Gaessler , E. Gallo , X. Gao , L. Genolet , M. Genoni , P. Giacobbe , E. Giro , R. S. Goncalves , O. A. Gonzalez , J. I. González Hernández , C. Gouvret , F. Gracia Temich , M. G. Haehnelt , C. Haniff , A. Hatzes , R. Helled , H. J. Hoeijmakers , I. Hughes , P. Huke , Y. Ivanisenko , A. S. Järvinen , S. P. Järvinen , A. Kaminski , J. Kern , J. Knoche , A. Kordt , H. Korhonen , A. J. Korn , D. Kouach , G. Kowzan , L. Kreidberg , M. Landoni , A. A. Lanotte , A. Lavail , B. Lavie , D. Lee , M. Lehmitz , J. Li , W. Li , J. Liske , C. Lovis , S. Lucatello , D. Lunney , M. J. MacIntosh , N. Madhusudhan , L. Magrini , R. Maiolino , J. Maldonado , L. Malo , A. W. S. Man , T. Marquart , C. M. J. Marques , E. L. Marques , P. Martinez , A. Martins , C. J. A. P. Martins , J. H. C. Martins , P. Maslowski , C. A. Mason , E. Mason , R. A. McCracken , M. A. F. Melo e Sousa , P. Mergo , G. Micela , D. Milaković , P. Molliere , M. A. Monteiro , D. Montgomery , C. Mordasini , J. Morin , A. Mucciarelli , M. T. Murphy , M. N'Diaye , N. Nardetto , B. Neichel , N. Neri , A. T. Niedzielski , E. Niemczura , B. Nisini , L. Nortmann , P. Noterdaeme , N. J. Nunes , L. Oggioni , F. Olchewsky , E. Oliva , H. Onel , L. Origlia , G. Ostlin , N. N. -Q. Ouellette , E. Palle , P. Papaderos , G. Pariani , L. Pasquini , J. Peñate Castro , F. Pepe , C. Peroux , L. Perreault Levasseur , S. Perruchot , P. Petit , O. Pfuhl , L. Pino , J. Piqueras , N. Piskunov , A. Pollo , K. Poppenhaeger , M. Porru , J. Puschnig , A. Quirrenbach , E. Rauscher , R. Rebolo , E. M. A. Redaelli , S. Reffert , D. T. Reid , A. Reiners , P. Richter , M. Riva , S. Rivoire , C. Rodriguez-López , I. U. Roederer , D. Romano , M. Roth , S. Rousseau , J. Rowe , A. Saccardi , S. Salvadori , N. Sanna , N. C. Santos , P. Santos Diaz , J. Sanz-Forcada , M. Sarajlic , J. -F. Sauvage , D. Savio , A Scaudo , S. Schäfer , R. P. Schiavon , T. M. Schmidt , C. Selmi , R. Simoes , A. Simonnin , S. Sivanandam , M. Sordet , R. Sordo , F. Sortino , D. Sosnowska , S. G. Sousa , A. Spang , R. Spiga , E. Stempels , J. R. Y. Stevenson , K. G. Strassmeier , A. Suárez Mascareño , A. Sulich , X. Sun , N. R. Tanvir , F. Tenegi-Sangines , S. Thibault , S. J. Thompson , P. Tisserand , A. Tozzi , M. Turbet , J. -P. Veran , P. Vallee , I. Vanni , R. Varas , A. Vega-Moreno , K. A. Venn , A. Verma , J. Vernet , M. Viel , G. Wade , C. Waring , M. Weber , J. Weder , B. Wehbe , J. Weingrill , M. Woche , M. Xompero , E. Zackrisson , A. Zanutta , M. R. Zapatero Osorio , M. Zechmeister , J. Zimara

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Overview of innovative science programs

IRIS (InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) is a first light near-infrared diffraction limited imager and integral field spectrograph being designed for the future Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). IRIS is optimized to perform astronomical studies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shelley A. Wright , James E. Larkin , Anna M. Moore , Tuan Do , Luc Simard , Mate Adamkovics , Lee Armus , Aaron J. Barth , Elizabeth Barton , Hope Boyce Jeffrey Cooke , Patrick Cote , Timothy Davidge , Brent Ellerbroek , Andrea Ghez , Michael C. Liu , Jessica R. Lu , Bruce A. Macintosh , Shude Mao , Christian Marois , Mathias Schoeck , Ryuji Suzuki , Jonathan C. Tan , Tommaso Treu , Lianqi Wang , Jason Weiss

MATISSE, the VLTI mid-infrared imaging spectro-interferometer

Context:Optical interferometry is at a key development stage. ESO's VLTI has established a stable, robust infrastructure for long-baseline interferometry for general astronomical observers. The present second-generation instruments offer a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 B. Lopez , S. Lagarde , R. G. Petrov , W. Jaffe , P. Antonelli , F. Allouche , P. Berio , A. Matter , A. Meilland , F. Millour , S. Robbe-Dubois , Th. Henning , G. Weigelt , A. Glindemann , T. Agocs , Ch. Bailet , U. Beckmann , F. Bettonvil , R. van Boekel , P. Bourget , Y. Bresson , P. Bristow , P. Cruzalèbes , E. Eldswijk , Y. Fanteï Caujolle , J. C. González Herrera , U. Graser , P. Guajardo , M. Heininger , K. -H. Hofmann , G. Kroes , W. Laun , M. Lehmitz , C. Leinert , K. Meisenheimer , S. Morel , U. Neumann , C. Paladini , I. Percheron , M. Riquelme , M. Schoeller , Ph. Stee , L. Venema , J. Woillez , G. Zins , P. Ábrahám , S. Abadie , R. Abuter , M. Accardo , T. Adler , J. Alonso , J. -C. Augereau , A. Böhm , G. Bazin , J. Beltran , A. Bensberg , W. Boland , R. Brast , L. Burtscher , R. Castillo , A. Chelli , C. Cid , J. -M. Clausse , C. Connot , R. D. Conzelmann , W. -C. Danchi , M. Delbo , J. Drevon , C. Dominik , A. van Duin , M. Ebert , F. Eisenhauer , S. Flament , R. Frahm , V. Gámez Rosas , A. Gabasch , A. Gallenne , E. Garces , P. Girard , A. Glazenborg , F. Y. J. Gonté , F. Guitton , M. de Haan , H. Hanenburg , X. Haubois , V. Hocdé , M. Hogerheijde , R. ter Horst , J. Hron , C. A. Hummel , N. Hubin , R. Huerta , J. Idserda , J. W. Isbell , D. Ives , G. Jakob , A. Jaskó , L. Jochum , L. Klarmann , R. Klein , J. Kragt , S. Kuindersma , E. Kokoulina , L. Labadie , S. Lacour , J. Leftley , R. Le Poole , J. -L. Lizon , M. Lopez , A. Mérand , A. Marcotto , N. Mauclert , T. Maurer , L. H. Mehrgan , J. Meisner , K. Meixner , M. Mellein , J. L. Menut , L. Mohr , L. Mosoni , R. Navarro , E. Nussbaum , L. Pallanca , E. Pantin , L. Pasquini , T. Phan Duc , J. -U. Pott , E. Pozna , A. Richichi , A. Ridinger , F. Rigal , Th. Rivinius , R. Roelfsema , R. -R. Rohloff , S. Rousseau , D. Salabert , D. Schertl , N. Schuhler , M. Schuil , K. Shabun , A. Soulain , C. Stephan , P. Toledo , K. Tristram , N. Tromp , F. Vakili , J. Varga , J. Vinther , L. B. F. M. Waters , M. Wittkowski , S. Wolf , F. Wrhel , G. Yoffe

The Extremely Large Telescope

Extremely large telescopes (ELTs) are considered worldwide to be one of the highest priorities in ground-based astronomy. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is developing an ELT that will have a 39 m main mirror and will be the largest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Paolo Padovani , Michele Cirasuolo

The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: spectrograph design

The Infra-Red Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is one of the three first light instruments for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and is the only one to directly sample the diffraction limit. The instrument consists of a parallel imager and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Anna M. Moore , Brian J. Bauman , Elizabeth J. Barton , David Crampton , Alex Delacroix , James E. Larkin , Luc Simard , Ryuji Suzuki , Shelley A. Wright

Near-UV Spectroscopy with the VLT

The 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is expected to have very low throughput in the blue part of the visible spectrum. Because of that, a blue-optimised spectrograph at the 8-meter Very Large Telescope could potentially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Rodolfo Smiljanic

The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: overview, operation, simulation

MICADO will enable the ELT to perform diffraction limited near-infrared observations at first light. The instrument's capabilities focus on imaging (including astrometric and high contrast) as well as single object spectroscopy. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-27 Richard Davies , João Alves , Yann Clénet , Florian Lang-Bardl , Harald Nicklas , Jörg-Uwe Pott , Roberto Ragazzoni , Eline Tolstoy , Paola Amico , Heiko Anwand-Heerwart , Santiago Barboza , Lothar Barl , Pierre Baudoz , Ralf Bender , Naidu Bezawada , Peter Bizenberger , Wilfried Boland , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Bruno Borgo , Tristan Buey , Frédéric Chapron , Fanny Chemla , Mathieu Cohen , Oliver Czoske , Vincent Deo , Karen Disseau , Stefan Dreizler , Olivier Dupuis , Maximilian Fabricius , Renato Falomo , Pierre Fedou , Natascha Foerster Schreiber , Vincent Garrel , Norbert Geis , Hans Gemperlein , Eric Gendron , Reinhard Genzel , Stefan Gillessen , Martin Glück , Frank Grupp , Michael Hartl , Marco Häuser , Hans-Joachim Hess , Ralf Hofferbert , Ulrich Hopp , Veronika Hörmann , Zoltan Hubert , Elsa Huby , Jean-Michel Huet , Victoria Hutterer , Derek Ives , Annemieke Janssen , Willem Jellema , Wolfgang Kausch , Florian Kerber , Helmut Kravcar , Bertrand Le Ruyet , Kieran Leschinski , Christopher Mandla , Markus Manhart , Davide Massari , Simona Mei , Frédéric Merlin , Lars Mohr , Anna Monna , Norbert Muench , Friedrich Mueller , Gert Musters , Ramon Navarro , Udo Neumann , Nadine Neumayer , Jenny Niebsch , Markus Plattner , Norbert Przybilla , Sebastian Rabien , Ronny Ramlau , José Ramos , Suzanne Ramsay , Petra Rhode , Amon Richter , Josef Richter , Hans-Walter Rix , Gabriele Rodeghiero , Ralf-Rainer Rohloff , Matthias Rosensteiner , Gérard Rousset , Jörg Schlichter , Josef Schubert , Arnaud Sevin , Remko Stuik , Eckhard Sturm , Jens Thomas , Niels Tromp , Gijs Verdoes Kleijn , Fabrice Vidal , Roland Wagner , Michael Wegner , Werner Zeilinger , Julian Ziegleder , Bodo Ziegler , Gérard Zins

Towards a physical understanding of the thermal background in large ground-based telescopes

Ground-based thermal-infrared observations have a unique scientific potential, but are also extremely challenging due to the need to accurately subtract the high thermal background. Since the established techniques of chopping and nodding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-19 Leonard Burtscher , Ioannis Politopoulos , Sergio Fernández-Acosta , Tibor Agocs , Mario van den Ancker , Roy van Boekel , Bernhard Brandl , Hans Ulrich Käufl , Eric Pantin , Alex G. M. Pietrow , Ralf Siebenmorgen , Remko Stuik , Konrad R. W. Tristram , Willem-Jan de Wit

The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: overview and current Status

MICADO is a first light instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), set to start operating later this decade. It will provide diffraction limited imaging, astrometry, high contrast imaging, and long slit spectroscopy at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 E. Sturm , R. Davies , J. Alves , Y. Clénet , J. Kotilainen , A. Monna , H. Nicklas , J. -U. Pott , E. Tolstoy , B. Vulcani , J. Achren , S. Annadevara , H. Anwand-Heerwart , C. Arcidiacono , S. Barboza , L. Barl , P. Baudoz , R. Bender , N. Bezawada , F. Biondi , P. Bizenberger , A. Blin , A. Boné , P. Bonifacio , B. Borgo , J. van den Born , T. Buey , Y. Cao , F. Chapron , G. Chauvin , F. Chemla , K. Cloiseau , M. Cohen , C. Collin , O. Czoske , J. -O. Dette , M. Deysenroth , E. Dijkstra , S. Dreizler , O. Dupuis , G. van Egmond , F. Eisenhauer , E. Elswijk , A. Emslander , M. Fabricius , G. Fasola , F. Ferreira , N. M. Förster Schreiber , A. Fontana , J. Gaudemard , N. Gautherot , E. Gendron , C. Gennet , R. Genzel , L. Ghouchou , S. Gillessen , D. Gratadour , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. Guieu , M. Gullieuszik , M. de Haan , J. Hartke , M. Hartl , F. Haussmann , T. Helin , H. -J. Hess , R. Hofferbert , H. Huber , E. Huby , J. -M. Huet , D. Ives , A. Janssen , P. Jaufmann , T. Jilg , D. Jodlbauer , J. Jost , W. Kausch , H. Kellermann , F. Kerber , H. Kravcar , K. Kravchenko , C. Kulcsár , H. Kunkarayakti , P. Kunst , S. Kwast , F. Lang , J. Lange , V. Lapeyrere , B. Le Ruyet , K. Leschinski , H. Locatelli , D. Massari , S. Mattila , S. Mei , F. Merlin , E. Meyer , C. Michel , L. Mohr , M. Montargès , F. Müller , N. Münch , R. Navarro , U. Neumann , N. Neumayer , L. Neumeier , F. Pedichini , A. Pflüger , R. Piazzesi , L. Pinard , J. Porras , E. Portaluri , N. Przybilla , S. Rabien , J. Raffard , R. Raggazoni , R. Ramlau , J. Ramos , S. Ramsay , H. -F. Raynaud , P. Rhode , A. Richter , H. -W. Rix , M. Rodenhuis , R. -R. Rohloff , R. Romp , P. Rousselot , N. Sabha , B. Sassolas , J. Schlichter , M. Schuil , M. Schweitzer , U. Seemann , A. Sevin , M. Simioni , L. Spallek , A. Sönmez , J. Suuronen , S. Taburet , J. Thomas , E. Tisserand , P. Vaccari , E. Valenti , G. Verdoes Kleijn , M. Verdugo , F. Vidal , R. Wagner , M. Wegner , D. van Winden , J. Witschel , A. Zanella , W. Zeilinger , J. Ziegleder , B. Ziegler

MICADO: first light imager for the E-ELT

MICADO will equip the E-ELT with a first light capability for diffraction limited imaging at near-infrared wavelengths. The instrument's observing modes focus on various flavours of imaging, including astrometric, high contrast, and time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 R. Davies , J. Schubert , M. Hartl , J. Alves , Y. Clénet , F. Lang-Bardl , H. Nicklas , J. -U. Pott , R. Ragazzoni , E. Tolstoy , T. Agocs , H. Anwand-Heerwart , S. Barboza , P. Baudoz , R. Bender , P. Bizenberger , A. Boccaletti , W. Boland , P. Bonifacio , F. Briegel , T. Buey , F. Chapron , M. Cohen , O. Czoske , S. Dreizler , R. Falomo , P. Feautrier , N. Förster Schreiber , E. Gendron , R. Genzel , M. Glück , D. Gratadour , R. Greimel , F. Grupp , M. Häuser , M. Haug , J. Hennawi , H. -J. Hess , V. Hörmann , R. Hofferbert , U. Hopp , Z. Hubert , D. Ives , W. Kausch , F. Kerber , H. Kravcar , K. Kuijken , F. Lang-Bardl , M. Leitzinger , K. Leschinski , D. Massari , S. Mei , F. Merlin , L. Mohr , A. Monna , F. Müller , R. Navarro , M. Plattner , N. Przybilla , R. Ramlau , S. Ramsay , T. Ratzka , P. Rhode , J. Richter , H. -W. Rix , G. Rodeghiero , R. -R. Rohloff , G. Rousset , R. Ruddenklau , V. Schaffenroth , J. Schlichter , A. Sevin , R. Stuik , E. Sturm , J. Thomas , N. Tromp , M. Turatto , G. Verdoes-Kleijn , F. Vidal , R. Wagner , M. Wegner , W. Zeilinger , B. Ziegler , G. Zins

Astrophotonic micro-spectrographs in the era of ELTs

The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELT), with diameters up to 39 meters, will start opera- tion in the next decade and promises new challenges in the development of instruments. The growing field of astrophotonics (the use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 N. Blind , E. Le Coarer , P. Kern , J. Bland-Hawthorn

A decade of sub-arcsecond imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) is a pan-European radio interferometer with baselines up to 2,000 km. This provides sub-arcsecond resolution at frequencies of <200 MHz. Since starting science operations in 2012, the ILT has carried…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Leah K. Morabito , Neal Jackson , Jurjen de Jong , Emmy Escott , Christian Groeneveld , Vijay Mahatma , James Petley , Frits Sweijen , Roland Timmerman , Reinout J. van Weeren

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: latest science cases and simulations

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) first light instrument IRIS (Infrared Imaging Spectrograph) will complete its preliminary design phase in 2016. The IRIS instrument design includes a near-infrared (0.85 - 2.4 micron) integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Shelley A. Wright , Gregory Walth , Tuan Do , Daniel Marshall , James E. Larkin , Anna M. Moore , Mate Adamkovics , David Andersen , Lee Armus , Aaron Barth , Patrick Cote , Jeff Cooke , Eric M. Chisholm , Timothy Davidge , Jennifer S. Dunn , Christophe Dumas , Brent L. Ellerbroeck , Andrea M. Ghez , Lei Hao , Yutaka Hayano , Michael Liu , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez , Jessica R. Lu , Shude Mao , Christian Marois , Shashi B. Pandey , Andrew C. Philips , Matthias Schoeck , Annapurni Subramaniam , Smitha Subramanian , Ryuji Suzuki , Jonathan C. Tan , Tsuyoshi Terai , Tommaso Treu , Luc Simard , Jason L. Weiss , James Wincensten , Michael Wong , Kai Zhang

Developing an integrated concept for the E-ELT Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOSAIC): design issues and trade-offs

We present a discussion of the design issues and trade-offs that have been considered in putting together a new concept for MOSAIC, the multi-object spectrograph for the E-ELT. MOSAIC aims to address the combined science cases for E-ELT MOS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-22 Myriam Rodrigues , Gavin Dalton , Ewan Fitzsimons , Fanny Chemla , Tim Morris , Francois Hammer , Mathieu Puech , Christopher Evans , Pascal Jagourel

The Era of Extremely Large Optical Telescopes: The ELT

The advent of Extremely Large Telescopes ELTs, ground-based optical or infrared observatories with primary mirrors exceeding 20 m heralds a transformative epoch in observational astronomy. This article examines the dawn of this new era and…

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