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METIS - the Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph

METIS, the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (formerly called MIDIR), is a proposed instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), currently undergoing a phase-A study. The study is carried out within the framework of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bernhard R. Brandl , Rainer Lenzen , Eric Pantin , Alistair Glasse , Joris Blommaert , Lars Venema , Frank Molster , Ralf Siebenmorgen , Hermann Boehnhardt , Ewine van Dishoeck , Paul van der Werf , Thomas Henning , Wolfgang Brandner , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Toby J. T. Moore , Maarten Baes , Christoffel Waelkens , Chris Wright , Hans Ulrich Kaeufl , Sarah Kendrew , Remko Stuik , Laurent Jolissaint

High strehl and high contrast for the ELT instrument METIS -- Final design, implementation, and predicted performance of the single-conjugate adaptive optics system

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) is a first-generation instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), Europe's next-generation 39 m ground-based telescope for optical and infrared wavelengths. METIS will offer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Markus Feldt , Thomas Bertram , Carlos Correia , Olivier Absil , M. Concepción Cárdenas Vázquez , Hugo Coppejans , Martin Kulas , Andreas Obereder , Gilles Orban de Xivry , Silvia Scheithauer , Horst Steuer

METIS: The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) will provide the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) with a unique window to the thermal- and mid-infrared (3 - 13 microns). Its single-conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO) system will enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Bernhard Brandl , Felix Bettonvil , Roy van Boekel , Adrian Glauser , Sascha Quanz , Olivier Absil , António Amorim , Markus Feldt , Alistair Glasse , Manuel Güdel , Paul Ho , Lucas Labadie , Michael Meyer , Eric Pantin , Hans van Winckel , the METIS Consortium

METIS high-contrast imaging: from final design to manufacturing and testing

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) is one of the first-generation scientific instruments for the ELT, built under the supervision of ESO by a consortium of research institutes across and beyond Europe. Designed to cover…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Olivier Absil , Matthew Kenworthy , Christian Delacroix , Gilles Orban de Xivry , Lorenzo König , Prashant Pathak , David Doelman , Emiel Por , Frans Snik , Joost van den Born , Faustine Cantalloube , Alexis Carlotti , Benjamin Courtney-Barrer , Pontus Forsberg , Mikael Karlsson , Thomas Bertram , Roy van Boekel , Dennis Dolkens , Markus Feldt , Adrian M. Glauser , Eric Pantin , Sascha P. Quanz , Felix Bettonvil , Bernhard Brandl

Mid-infrared astronomy with the E-ELT: Performance of METIS

We present results of performance modelling for METIS, the Mid-infrared European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Imager and Spectrograph. Designed by a consortium of NOVA (Netherlands), UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK), MPIA Heidelberg…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sarah Kendrew , Laurent Jolissaint , Bernhard Brandl , Rainer Lenzen , Eric Pantin , Alistair Glasse , Joris Blommaert , Lars Venema , Ralf Siebenmorgen , Frank Molster

Correcting METIS spectra for telluric absorption to maximize spectral fidelity

METIS is a mid-infrared instrument proposed for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). It is designed to provide imaging and spectroscopic capabilities in the 3 - 14 micron region up to a spectral resolution of 100000. One of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-22 Stefan Uttenthaler , Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Andreas Seifahrt , Sarah Kendrew , Joris A. D. L. Blommaert , Eric J. Pantin , Bernhard R. Brandl , Frank J. Molster , Lars Venema , Rainer Lenzen , Phil Parr-Burman , Ralf Siebenmorgen , the METIS team

Single conjugate adaptive optics for the ELT instrument METIS

The ELT is a 39m large, ground-based optical and near- to mid-infrared telescope under construction in the Chilean Atacama desert. Operation is planned to start around the middle of the next decade. All first light instruments will come…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Stefan Hippler , Markus Feldt , Thomas Bertram , Wolfgang Brandner , Faustine Cantalloube , Brunella Carlomagno , Olivier Absil , Andreas Obereder , Iuliia Shatokhina , Remko Stuik

Simulating METIS SCAO System

METIS, the Mid-Infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph, is one of the four first-generation ELT instruments scheduled to see first light in 2028. Its two main science modules are supported by an adaptive optics system featuring a pyramid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Markus Feldt , Horst Steuer , Carlos Correia , Andreas Obereder , Stefan Raffetseder , Thomas Bertram , Julia Shatokina , Faustine Cantalloube

High contrast imaging with ELT/METIS: The wind driven halo, from SPHERE to METIS

METIS is one of the three first-light instruments planned for the ELT, mainly dedicated to high contrast imaging in the mid-infrared. On the SPHERE high-contrast instrument currently installed at the VLT, we observe that one of the main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Faustine Cantalloube , Olivier Absil , Thomas Bertram , Wolfgang Brandner , Christian Delacroix , Markus Feldt , Matthew Kenworthy , Martin Kulas , Julien Milli , Philip Neureuther , Gilles Orban de Xivry , Prashant Pathak , Emiel Por , Silvia Scheithauer , Horst Steuer , Roy van Boekel

Mid-Infrared Instrumentation for the European Extremely Large Telescope

MIDIR is the proposed thermal/mid-IR imager and spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). It will cover the wavelength range of 3 to at least 20 microns. Designed for diffraction-limited performance over the entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Kendrew , B. Brandl , R. Lenzen , L. Venema , H. U. Käufl , G. Finger , A. Glasse , R. Stuik

Direct detection of exoplanets in the 3 -- 10 micron range with E-ELT/METIS

We quantify the scientific potential for exoplanet imaging with the Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) foreseen as one of the instruments of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). We focus on two main science cases:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sascha P. Quanz , Ian Crossfield , Michael R. Meyer , Eva Schmalzl , Jenny Held

Metis: the Solar Orbiter visible light and ultraviolet coronal imager

Metis is the first solar coronagraph designed for a space mission capable of performing simultaneous imaging of the off-limb solar corona in both visible and UV light. The observations obtained with Metis aboard the Solar Orbiter ESA-NASA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Ester Antonucci , Marco Romoli , Vincenzo Andretta , Silvano Fineschi , Petr Heinzel , J. Daniel Moses , Giampiero Naletto , Gianalfredo Nicolini , Daniele Spadaro , Luca Teriaca , Arkadiusz Berlicki , Gerardo Capobianco , Giuseppe Crescenzio , Vania Da Deppo , Mauro Focardi , Fabio Frassetto , Klaus Heerlein , Federico Landini , Enrico Magli , Andrea Marco Malvezzi , Giuseppe Massone , Radek Melich , Piergiorgio Nicolosi , Giancarlo Noci , Maurizio Pancrazzi , Maria G. Pelizzo , Luca Poletto , Clementina Sasso , Udo Schühle , Sami K. Solanki , Leonard Strachan , Roberto Susino , Giuseppe Tondello , Michela Uslenghi , Joachim Woch , Lucia Abbo , Alessandro Bemporad , Marta Casti , Sergio Dolei , Catia Grimani , Mauro Messerotti , Marco Ricci , Thomas Straus , Daniele Telloni , Paola Zuppella , Frederic Auchère , Roberto Bruno , Angela Ciaravella , Alain J. Corso , Miguel Alvarez Copano , Regina Aznar Cuadrado , Raffaella D'Amicis , Reiner Enge , Alessio Gravina , Sonja Jejčič , Philippe Lamy , Alessandro Lanzafame , Thimo Meierdierks , Ioanna Papagiannaki , Hardi Peter , German Fernandez Rico , Mewael Giday Sertsu , Jan Staub , Kanaris Tsinganos , Marco Velli , Rita Ventura , Enrico Verroi , Jean-Claude Vial , Sebastien Vives , Antonio Volpicelli , Stephan Werner , Andreas Zerr , Barbara Negri , Marco Castronuovo , Alessandro Gabrielli , Roberto Bertacin , Rita Carpentiero , Silvia Natalucci , Filippo Marliani , Marco Cesa , Philippe Laget , Danilo Morea , Stefano Pieraccini , Paolo Radaelli , Paolo Sandri , Paolo Sarra , Stefano Cesare , Felice Del Forno , Ernesto Massa , Mauro Montabone , Sergio Mottini , Daniele Quattropani , Tiziano Schillaci , Roberto Boccardo , Rosario Brando , Arianna Pandi , Cristian Baietto , Riccardo Bertone , Alberto Alvarez-Herrero , Pilar García Parejo , María Cebollero , Mauro Amoruso , Vito Centonze

ELT-METIS imaging simulations for disks and envelopes associated with FU Ori-type objects

We investigate the detectability of extended mid-infrared (MIR) emission associated with FU-Ori type objects (FUors) using the METIS coronagraphs on the 39-m Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The imaging simulations were made for three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Michihiro Takami , Gilles Otten , Olivier Absil , Christian Delacroix , Jennifer L. Karr , Shiang-Yu Wang

The VLT/ERIS vortex coronagraph: design, pointing control, and on-sky performance

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) is the new near-infrared instrument at the VLT-UT4. ERIS replaces and extends the observational capabilities formerly provided by SINFONI and NACO: integral field spectroscopy at 1 -…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Gilles Orban de Xivry , Olivier Absil , Robert J. De Rosa , Markus J. Bonse , Felix Dannert , Jean Hayoz , Paolo Grani , Alfio Puglisi , Andrea Baruffolo , Bernardo Salasnich , Ric Davies , Adrian M. Glauser , Elsa Huby , Matthew Kenworthy , Sascha P. Quanz , William Taylor , Gérard Zins

ELT-MOS White Paper: Science Overview & Requirements

The workhorse instruments of the 8-10m class observatories have become their multi-object spectrographs (MOS), providing comprehensive follow-up to both ground-based and space-borne imaging. With the advent of deeper imaging surveys from,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-04 Chris Evans , Mathieu Puech , Beatriz Barbuy , Nate Bastian , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Elisabetta Caffau , Jean-Gabriel Cuby , Gavin Dalton , Ben Davies , Jim Dunlop , Hector Flores , Francois Hammer , Lex Kaper , Bertrand Lemasle , Simon Morris , Laura Pentericci , Patrick Petitjean , Daniel Schaerer , Eduardo Telles , Niraj Welikala , Bodo Ziegler

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 Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph for the VLT

ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is an instrument that both extends and enhances the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for the VLT. It replaces two instruments that were being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 R. Davies , O. Absil , G. Agapito , A. Agudo Berbel , A. Baruffolo , V. Biliotti , M. Bonaglia , M. Bonse , R. Briguglio , P. Campana , Y. Cao , L. Carbonaro , A. Cortes , G. Cresci , Y. Dallilar , F. Dannert , R. J. De Rosa , M. Deysenroth , I. Di Antonio , A. Di Cianno , G. Di Rico , D. Doelman , M. Dolci , R. Dorn , F. Eisenhauer , S. Esposito , D. Fantinel , D. Ferruzzi , H. Feuchtgruber , G. Finger , N. M. Förster Schreiber , X. Gao , H. Gemperlein , R. Genzel , S. Gillessen , C. Ginski , A. M. Glauser , A. Glindemann , P. Grani , M. Hartl , J. Hayoz , M. Heida , D. Henry , R. Hofmann , H. Huber , M. Kasper , C. Keller , M. Kenworthy , K. Kravchenko , H. Kuntschner , S. Lacour , J. Lightfoot , D. Lunney , D. Lutz , M. Macintosh , F. Mannucci , M. Marsset , A. Modigliani , M. Neeser , G. Orban de Xivry , T. Ott , L. Pallanca , P. Patapis , D. Pearson , E. Peña , I. Percheron , A. Puglisi , S. P. Quanz , S. Rabien , C. Rau , A. Riccardi , B. Salasnich , H. -M. Schmid , J. Schubert , B. Serra , T. Shimizu , F. Snik , E. Sturm , L. Tacconi , W. Taylor , A. Valentini , C. Waring , E. Wiezorrek , M. Xompero

ALF: an asymmetric Lyot wavefront sensor for the ELT/METIS vortex coronagraph

Non-common path quasi-static and differential aberrations are one of the big hurdles of direct imaging for current and future high-contrast imaging instruments. They increase speckle and photon noise thus reducing the achievable contrast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Gilles Orban de Xivry , Olivier Absil , Christian Delacroix , Prashant Pathak , Maxime Quesnel , Thomas Bertram

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

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