The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: overview and current status
- Autor(en)
- Eckhard Sturm, Richard Davies, João Alves, Yann Clénet, Jari Kotilainen, Anna Monna, Harald Nicklas, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Eline Tolstoy, Benedetta Vulcani, Jani Achren, Sriprasanna Annadevara, Heiko Anwand-Heerwart, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Santiago Barboza, Lothar Barl, Pierre Baudoz, Ralf Bender, Naidu Bezawada, Federico Biondi, Peter Bizenberger, Alexandre Blin, André Boné, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Bruno Borgo, Joost van den Born, Tristan Buey, Yixian Cao, Frédéric Chapron, Gaël Chauvin, Fanny Chemla, Kevin Cloiseau, Mathieu Cohen, Claude Colin, Oliver Czoske, Jens-Oliver Dette, Matthias Deysenroth, Elfi Dijkstra, Stefan Dreizler, Olivier Dupuis, G van Egmond, Frank Eisenhauer, Eddy Elswijk, Andreas Emslander, Maximilian Fabricius, Gilles Fasola, Florian Ferreira, Natascha Förster Schreiber, Adriano Fontana, Julien Gaudemard, Nicolas Gautherot, Eric Gendron, Camille Gennet, Reinhard Genzel, Lahoucine Ghouchou, Stefan Gillessen, Damien Gratadour, Andrea Grazian, Frank Grupp, Sylvain Guieu, Marco Gullieuszik, Menno de Haan, Johanna Hartke, Michael Hartl, Frank Haussmann, Tapio Helin, Hans-Joachim Hess, Ralph Hofferbert, Heinrich Huber, Elsa Huby, Jean-Michel Huet, Derek Ives, Annemieke Janssen, Pascal Jaifmann, Tilo Jilg, Daniel Jodlbauer, Joshua Jost, Wolfgang Kausch, Hanna Kellermann, Florian Kerber, Helmut Kravcar, Kateryna Kravchenko, Caroline Kulcsár, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Peter Kunst, Sander Kwast, Florian Lang, Jonathan Lange, Vincent Lapeyrere, Betrand Le Ruyet, Kieran Leschinski, Herve Locatelli, Davide Massari, Seppo Mattila, Simona Mei, Frederic Merlin, Eric Meyer, Christophe Michel, Lars Mohr, Miguel Montargès, Friedrich Müller, Norbert Münch, Ramon Navarro, Udo Neumann, Nadine Neumayer, Luis Neumeier, Fernando Pedichini, Andreas Pflüger, Roberto Piazzesi, Laurent Pinard, Julian Porras, Elisa Portulari, Norbert Przybilla, Sebastian Rabien, Jordan Raffard, Roberto Ragazzoni, Ronny Ramlau, José Ramos, Suzanne Ramsay, Henri-François Raynaud, Petra Rhode, Amon Richter, Hans-Walter Rix, Michiel Rodenhuis, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Rick Romp, Philippe Rousselot, Nadeen Sabha, Benoît Sassolas, Jörg Schlichter, Menno Schuil, Mario Schweitzer, Ulf Seemann, Arnaud Sevin, Matteo Simioni, Lenard Spallek, Aysun Sönmez, Jarkko Suuronen, Sylvestre Taburet, Jens Thomas, Emmanuel Tisserand, Piero Vaccari, Elena Valenti, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Miguel Verdugo, Fabrice Vidal, Roland Wagner, Michael Wegner, Derek van Winden, Johann Witschel, Anita Zanella, Werner Zeilinger, Julian Ziegleder, Bodo Ziegler
- Abstrakt
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 near-infrared wavelengths. During the initial phase operations, adaptive optics (AO) correction will be provided by its own natural guide star wavefront sensor.In its final configuration, that AO system will be retained and complemented by the laser guide star multi-conjugate adaptive optics module MORFEO (formerly known as MAORY). Among many other things, MICADO will study exoplanets, distant galaxies and stars, and investigate black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way. After their final design phase, most components of MICADO have moved on to the manufacturing and assembly phase.Here we summarize the final design of the instrument and provide an overview about its current manufacturing status and the timeline.Some lessons learned from the final design review process will be presented in order to help future instrumentation projects to cope with the challenges arising from the substantial differences between projects for 8-10m class telescopes (e.g. ESO's VLT) and the next generation Extremely Large Telescopes (e.g. ESO's ELT). Finally, MICADO's expected performance will be discussed in the context of the current landscape of astronomical observatories and instruments.For instance, MICADO will have similar sensitivity as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but with six times the spatial resolution.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
- Band
- 13096
- Seiten
- 37
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 1
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017752
- Publikationsdatum
- 07-2024
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103004 Astrophysik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Science Applications
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0a1be1c4-8af3-4d41-becc-1b565925ea5e