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FALCON: a concept to extend adaptive optics corrections to cosmological fields

FALCON is an original concept for a next generation spectrograph at ESO VLT or at future ELTs. It is a spectrograph including multiple small integral field units (IFUs) which can be deployed within a large field of view such as that of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francois Hammer , Mathieu Puech , Francois Assemat , Eric Gendron , Frederic Sayede , Philippe Laporte , Michel Marteaud , Arnaud Liotard , Frederic Zamkotsian

Resolving stellar populations with integral field spectroscopy

High-performance instruments at large ground-based telescopes have made integral field spectroscopy (IFS) a powerful tool for the study of extended objects such as galaxies, nebulae, or even larger survey fields on the sky. Here we discuss…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-24 Martin M. Roth , Peter M. Weilbacher , Norberto Castro

Stars and exoplanets in Stokes IQUV: a decadal opportunity for HIRES at the ELT

We proposed that the European ELT will be equipped with an ultra-high-precision polarimetric light feed as part of its high resolution optical and near-IR spectrograph HIRES. Such a feed is unique among the new ELTs and only possible in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-11 Klaus G. Strassmeier

Pilot-WINGS: An extended MUSE view of the structure of Abell 370

We investigate the strong-lensing cluster Abell 370 (A370) using a wide Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopic mosaic from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). IFU spectroscopy provides significant insight into the structure and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 David J. Lagattuta , Johan Richard , Franz Erik Bauer , Catherine Cerny , Adélaïde Claeyssens , Lucia Guaita , Mathilde Jauzac , Alexandre Jeanneau , Anton M. Koekemoer , Guillaume Mahler , Gonzalo Prieto Lyon , Matteo Bianconi , Thomas Connor , Renyue Cen , Alastair Edge , Andreas L. Faisst , Marceau Limousin , Richard Massey , Mauro Sereno , Keren Sharon , John R. Weaver

Testing the near-infrared optical assembly of the space telescope Euclid

Euclid is a space telescope currently developed in the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Program. It addresses fundamental cosmological questions related to dark matter and dark energy. The lens system of one of the two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Christof Bodendorf , Norbert Geis , Frank Grupp , Jennifer Kaminski , Reinhard Katterloher , Ralf Bender

HRMOS White Paper: Science Motivation

The High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (HRMOS) is a facility instrument that we plan to propose for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), following the initial presentation at the VLT 2030…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Laura Magrini , Thomas Bensby , Anna Brucalassi , Sofia Randich , Robin Jeffries , Gayandhi de Silva , Asa Skuladottir , Rodolfo Smiljanic , Oscar Gonzalez , Vanessa Hill , Nadege Lagarde , Eline Tolstoy , Jose' Maria Arroyo-Polonio , Martina Baratella , John R. Barnes , Giuseppina Battaglia , Holger Baumgardt , Michele Bellazzini , Katia Biazzo , Angela Bragaglia , Bradley Carter , Giada Casali , Gabriele Cescutti , Camilla Danielski , Elisa Delgado Mena , Arnas Drazdauskas , Mark Gieles , Riano Giribaldi , Keith Hawkins , H. Jens Hoeijmakers , Pascale Jablonka , Devika Kamath , Tom Louth , Anna Fabiola Marino , Sarah Martell , Thibault Merle , Benjamin Montet , Michael T. Murphy , Brunella Nisini , Thomas Nordlander , Valentina D'Orazi , Lorenzo Pino , Donatella Romano , Germano Sacco , Nathan R. Sandford , Antonio Sollima , Lorenzo Spina , Grazina Tautvaivsiene , Yuan-Sen Ting , Andrea Tozzi , Mathieu Van der Swaelmen , Sophie Van Eck , Stephen Watson , C. Clare Worley , Alice Zocchi

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40m Telescope and the Science at Stake: from Interstellar Visitors to Planetary Defence

Small Solar system Objects (SSOs) preserve the physical, chemical, and dynamical signatures of the Sun's protoplanetary disk. Upcoming surveys will discover vast numbers of new objects, yet their scientific value will depend on follow-up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 J. de León , N. Pinilla-Alonso , P. Tanga , D. Souami , Z. Gray , A. Alvarez-Candal , B. Carry , R. de la Fuente Marcos , A. Delsanti , F. La Forgia , A. Migliorini , T. Müller , A. Penttilä , M. Popescu , C. Snodgrass , D. Oszkiewicz , C. Opitom , A. Campo-Bagatin , J. Licandro , R. Hueso , M. Lazzarin , S. Fornasier , R. Brunetto , J. A. de Abol Brasón , J. de Cos Juez , J. DeMartini , A. Donaldson , R. Dorsey , R. Duffard , J. Fernández Díaz , F. García de Leániz , R. Hevia Díaz , J. M. Gómez-Limón , O. Groussin , S. Iglesias Álvarez , T. Kohout , M. Kretlow , T. Le Pivert-Jolivet , M. Montero-Vega , N. Morales , K. Muinonen , J. L. Ortiz , G. P. Prodan , J. L. Rizos , J. E. Robinson , S. Rodríguez Cabo , J. Rodríguez Rodríguez , A. Rozek , P. Santos-Sanz , E. Tatsumi , F. Tinaut-Ruano , E. Villaver

Progress on FORS-Up: the first instrument using ELT technologies

ESO is in the process of upgrading one of the two FORS (FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph) instruments - a multi-mode (imaging, polarimetry, long-slit, and multi-object spectroscopy) optical instrument mounted on the Cassegrain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 H. M. J. Boffin , V. Baldini , S. Bertocco , G. Calderone , R. Cirami , R. D. Conzelmann , I. Coretti , C. Cumani , D. Del Valle , F. Derie , P. A. Fuerte Rodríguez , P. Gutierrez Cheetham , J. Kosmalski , A. R. Manescau , P. Di Marcantonio , A. Modigliani , S. Moehler , C. Moins , D. Popovic , M. Porru , J. Reyes , R. Siebenmorgen , V. Strazzullo , A. Sulich

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018

(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the international astronomy and engineering communities, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 Alexis Hill , Nicolas Flagey , Alan McConnachie , Kei Szeto , Andre Anthony , Javier Ariño , Ferdinand Babas , Gregoire Bagnoud , Gabriella Baker , Gregory Barrick , Steve Bauman , Tom Benedict , Christophe Berthod , Armando Bilbao , Alberto Bizkarguenaga , Alexandre Blin , Colin Bradley , Denis Brousseau , Rebecca Brown , Jurek Brzeski , Walter Brzezik , Patrick Caillier , Ramón Campo , Pierre-Henri Carton , Jiaru Chu , Vladimir Churilov , David Crampton , Lisa Crofoot , Laurie Dale , Lander de Bilbao , Markel Sainz de la Maza , Daniel Devost , Michael Edgar , Darren Erickson , Tony Farrell , Pascal Fouque , Paul Fournier , Javier Garrido , Mike Gedig , Nicolas Geyskens , James Gilbert , Peter Gillingham , Guillermo González de Rivera , Greg Green , Eric Grigel , Patrick Hall , Kevin Ho , David Horville , Hongzhuan Hu , David Irusta , Sidik Isani , Farbod Jahandar , Manoj Kaplinghat , Collin Kielty , Neelesh Kulkarni , Leire Lahidalga , Florence Laurent , Jon Lawrence , Mary Beth Laychak , Jooyoung Lee , Zhigang Liu , Nathan Loewen , Fernando López , Thomas Lorentz , Guillaume Lorgeoux , Billy Mahoney , Slavko Mali , Eric Manuel , Sofía Martínez , Celine Mazoukh , Younès Messaddeq , Jean-Emmanuel Migniau , Shan Mignot , Stephanie Monty , Steeve Morency , Yves Mouser , Ronny Muller , Rolf Muller , Gaizka Murga , Rick Murowinski , Victor Nicolov , Naveen Pai , Rafal Pawluczyk , John Pazder , Arlette Pécontal , Andreea Petric , Francisco Prada , Corinne Rai , Coba Ricard , Jennifer Roberts , J. Michael Rodgers , Jane Rodgers , Federico Ruan , Tamatea Russelo , Derrick Salmom , Justo Sánchez , Will Saunders , Case Scott , Andy Sheinis , Douglas Simons , Scott Smedley , Zhen Tang , Jose Teran , Simon Thibault , Sivarani Thirupathi , Laurence Tresse , Mitchell Troy , Rafael Urrutia , Emile van Vuuren , Sudharshan Venkatesan , Kim Venn , Tom Vermeulen , Eva Villaver , Lew Waller , Lei Wang , Jianping Wang , Eric Williams , Matt Wilson , Kanoa Withington , Christophe Yèche , David Yong , Chao Zhai , Kai Zhang , Ross Zhelem , Zengxiang Zhou

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope V. Optimal algorithms for planning multi-object spectroscopic observations

We present an overview of the capabilities and key algorithms employed in the so-called eMPT software suite developed for planning scientifically optimized, multi-object spectroscopic (MOS) observations with the Micro-Shutter Array (MSA) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 N. Bonaventura , P. Jakobsen , P. Ferruit , S. Arribas , G. Giardino

ELT HARMONI: Image Slicer Preliminary Design

Harmoni is the ELT's first light visible and near-infrared integral field spectrograph. It will provide four different spatial scales, ranging from coarse spaxels of 60 x 30 mas best suited for seeing limited observations, to 4 mas spaxels…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Florence Laurent , Didier Boudon , Johan Kosmalski , Magali Loupias , Guillaume Raffault , Alban Remillieux , Niranjan Thatte , Ian Bryson , Hermine Schnetler , Fraser Clarke , Matthias Tecza

Simulating the optical alignment of the multiconjugate adaptive optics module for the extremely large telescope

Adaptive optics (AO) instruments for the future extremely large telescopes (ELTs) are characterized by advanced optical systems with diffraction-limited optical quality. Low geometric distortion is also crucial for high accuracy astrometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Mauro Patti , Matteo Lombini , Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli , Emiliano Diolaiti

4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope

The 4MOST consortium is currently halfway through a Conceptual Design study for ESO with the aim to develop a wide-field (>3 square degree, goal >5 square degree), high-multiplex (>1500 fibres, goal 3000 fibres) spectroscopic survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Roelof S. de Jong , Olga Bellido-Tirado , Cristina Chiappini , Éric Depagne , Roger Haynes , Diane Johl , Olivier Schnurr , Axel Schwope , Jakob Walcher , Frank Dionies , Dionne Haynes , Andreas Kelz , Francisco S. Kitaura , Georg Lamer , Ivan Minchev , Volker Müller , Sebastián E. Nuza , Jean-Christophe Olaya , Tilmann Piffl , Emil Popow , Matthias Steinmetz , Uğur Ural , Mary Williams , Roland Winkler , Lutz Wisotzki , Wolfgang R. Ansorgb , Manda Banerji , Eduardo Gonzalez Solares , Mike Irwin , Robert C. Kennicutt , David King , Richard McMahon , Sergey Koposov , Ian R. Parry , Nicholas A. Walton , Gert Finger , Olaf Iwert , Mirko Krumpe , Jean-Louis Lizon , Mainieri Vincenzo , Jean-Philippe Amans , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Mathieu Cohen , Patrick Francois , Pascal Jagourel , Shan B. Mignot , Frédéric Royer , Paola Sartoretti , Ralf Bender , Frank Grupp , Hans-Joachim Hess , Florian Lang-Bardl , Bernard Muschielok , Hans Böhringer , Thomas Boller , Angela Bongiorno , Marcella Brusa , Tom Dwelly , Andrea Merloni , Kirpal Nandra , Mara Salvato , Johannes H. Pragt , Ramón Navarro , Gerrit Gerlofsma , Ronald Roelfsema , Gavin B. Dalton , Kevin F. Middleton , Ian A. Tosh , Corrado Boeche , Elisabetta Caffau , Norbert Christlieb , Eva K. Grebel , Camilla Hansen , Andreas Koch , Hans-G. Ludwig , Andreas Quirrenbach , Luca Sbordone , Walter Seifert , Guido Thimm , Trifon Trifonov , Amina Helmi , Scott C. Trager , Sofia Feltzing , Andreas Korn , Wilfried Boland

Design studies for a European Gamma-ray Observatory

We discuss preliminary studies concerning a large-diameter gamma-ray telescope, to be part of an array of telescopes installed at the existing observation site on the Canary island of La Palma. One of the telescopes in the array will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carmen Baixeras

Synergy between THESEUS and E-ELT

The Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a space mission concept aimed at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 E. Maiorano , L. Amati , A. Rossi , G. Stratta , E. Palazzi , L. Nicastro

The Potsdam MRS Spectrograph - heritage of MUSE and the impact of cross-innovation in the process of technology transfer

After having demonstrated that an IFU, attached to a microscope rather than to a telescope, is capable of differentiating complex organic tissue with spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy, we have launched a clinical validation program that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Benito Moralejo , Martin M. Roth , Philippe Godefroy , Thomas Fechner , Svend M. Bauer , Elmar Schmälzlin , Andreas Kelz , Roger Haynes

SpecTel: A 10-12 meter class Spectroscopic Survey Telescope

We recommend a conceptual design study for a spectroscopic facility in the southern hemisphere comprising a large diameter telescope, fiber system, and spectrographs collectively optimized for massively-multiplexed spectroscopy. As a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Richard Ellis , Kyle Dawson , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Roland Bacon , Adam Bolton , Malcolm Bremer , Jarle Brinchmann , Kevin Bundy , Charlie Conroy , Bernard Delabre , Arjun Dey , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Jenny Greene , Luigi Guzzo , Jennifer Johnson , Alexie Leauthaud , Khee-Gan Lee , Luca Pasquini , Laura Pentericci , Johan Richard , Hans-Walter Rix , Connie Rockosi , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar , Michael Strauss , Masahiro Takada , Eline Tolstoy , Darach Watson

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

The numerical simulation tool for the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

The Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY (MAORY) is and Adaptive Optics module to be mounted on the ESO European-Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). It is a hybrid Natural and Laser Guide System that will perform the correction of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Carmelo Arcidiacono , Laura Schreiber , Giovanni Bregoli , Emiliano Diolaiti , Italo Foppiani , Guido Agapito , Alfio Puglisi , Marco Xompero , Sylvain Oberti , Giuseppe Cosentino , Matteo Lombini , Chris R. Butler , Paolo Ciliegi , Fausto Cortecchia , Mauro Patti , Simone Esposito , Philippe Feautrier