A status report on the instruments for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

Suzanne Ramsay; Paola Amico; Naidu Bezawada; Fabio Biancat Marchet; Patrick Caillier; Michele Cirasuolo; Ralf Conzelmann; Reinhold Dorn; Sebastian Egner; Christoph Frank; Elizabeth George; Frederic Gonte; Juan Carlos González Herrera; Peter Hammersley; Christoph Haupt; Derek Ives; Gerd Jakob; Florian Kerber; Bertrand Koehler; Sylvain Oberti; Christian Schmid; Johannes Schimpelsberger; Ulf Seemann; Ralf Siebenmorgen; Roberto Tamai; Joël Vernet

doi:10.1117/12.2562555

18 December 2020 A status report on the instruments for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

Suzanne Ramsay, Paola Amico, Naidu Bezawada, Fabio Biancat Marchet, Patrick Caillier, Michele Cirasuolo, Ralf Conzelmann, Reinhold Dorn, Sebastian Egner, Christoph Frank, Elizabeth George, Frederic Gonte, Juan Carlos González Herrera, Peter Hammersley, Christoph Haupt, Derek Ives, Gerd Jakob, Florian Kerber, Bertrand Koehler, Sylvain Oberti, Christian Schmid, Johannes Schimpelsberger, Ulf Seemann, Ralf Siebenmorgen, Roberto Tamai, Joël Vernet

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Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114471U (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562555
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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In this paper we will give an overview of the status of the three instruments and one adaptive optics module that are currently under construction for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Currently three of those instruments are in the final design stages and the adaptive optics module, MAORY, is rapidly approaching its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). Funding for the laser tomographic module for HARMONI has been secured and that module is now included as part of that overall instrument project. The PDR phase of the instruments has strongly highlighted the ambitious nature of these and all 30-m class instrument projects. Scientifically, managerially and technically, the step up from the 8-m class is challenging. This paper will provide an introduction to all these instruments and will highlight some of the important developments required to realise them.

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Suzanne Ramsay, Paola Amico, Naidu Bezawada, Fabio Biancat Marchet, Patrick Caillier, Michele Cirasuolo, Ralf Conzelmann, Reinhold Dorn, Sebastian Egner, Christoph Frank, Elizabeth George, Frederic Gonte, Juan Carlos González Herrera, Peter Hammersley, Christoph Haupt, Derek Ives, Gerd Jakob, Florian Kerber, Bertrand Koehler, Sylvain Oberti, Christian Schmid, Johannes Schimpelsberger, Ulf Seemann, Ralf Siebenmorgen, Roberto Tamai, and Joël Vernet "A status report on the instruments for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114471U (18 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562555

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