ERIS：为甚大望远镜焕新一台自适应光学仪器
天体物理仪器与方法
2018-07-16 v1
摘要
ERIS 是一台将扩展并增强甚大望远镜（VLT）基本衍射极限成像与光谱能力的仪器。它将替换两台现已超期服役的仪器，将其功能合并于单一焦点，提供利用设施自适应光学系统的新波前传感模块，并大幅改进其性能。该仪器在若干方面将相对于 JWST 具有竞争力，并在银河系中心、系外行星和高红移星系研究中具备出色潜力。ERIS 于 2017 年完成最终设计评审，预计 2020 年上天观测。本文描述该仪器概念，概述其预期性能，并强调其最擅长的领域。
引用
@article{arxiv.1807.05089,
title = {ERIS: revitalising an adaptive optics instrument for the VLT},
author = {Richard Davies and Simone Esposito and Hans Martin Schmid and William Taylor and Guido Agapito and Alexander Agudo Berbel and Andrea Baruffolo and Valdemaro Biliotti and Beth Biller and Martin Black and Anna Boehle and Runa Briguglio and Alexander Buron and Luca Carbonaro and Angela Cortes and Giovanni Cresci and Matthias Deysenroth and Amico Di Cianno and Gianluca Di Rico and David Doelman and Mauro Dolci and Reinhold Dorn and Frank Eisenhauer and Daniela Fantinel and Debora Ferruzzi and Helmut Feuchtgruber and Natascha Förster Schreiber and Xiaofeng Gao and Hans Gemperlein and Reinhard Genzel and Elizabeth George and Stefan Gillessen and Christophe Giordano and Adrian Glauser and Andreas Glindemann and Paolo Grani and Michael Hartl and Jeroen Heijmans and David Henry and Heinrich Huber and Markus Kasper and Christoph Keller and Matthew Kenworthy and Jonas Kuehn and Harald Kuntschner and John Lightfood and David Lunney and Mike MacIntosh and Filippo Mannucci and Stephen March and Mark Neeser and Polychronis Patapis and David Pearson and Markus Plattner and Alfio Puglisi and Sascha Quanz and Christian Rau and Armando Riccardi and Bernardo Salasnich and Josef Schubert and Frans Snik and Eckhard Sturm and Angelo Valentini and Christopher Waring and Erich Wiezorrek and Marco Xompero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05089},
year = {2018}
}
备注
12 pages, Proc SPIE 10702 "Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII"