Pushing down with the contrast: scientific performances with SPHERE-IFS

R. Claudi; J. Antichi; A. Baruffolo; P. Bruno; E. Cascone; V. DeCaprio; M. DePascale; S. Desidera; V. D'Orazi; D. Fantinel; G. Farisato; E. Giro; R. Gratton; L. Lessio; A.L. Maire; D. Mesa; B. Salasnich; S. Scuderi; E. Sissa; M. Turatto; A. Zurlo; JL Beuzit; A. Boccaletti; G. Chauvin; K. Dohlen; G. Finger; J. H. Girard; M. Kasper; N. Hubin; M. Langlois; J. L. Lizon; D. Mouillet; P. Puget; F. Wildi

doi:10.1117/12.2232827

9 August 2016 Pushing down with the contrast: scientific performances with SPHERE-IFS

R. Claudi, J. Antichi, A. Baruffolo, P. Bruno, E. Cascone, V. DeCaprio, M. DePascale, S. Desidera, V. D'Orazi, D. Fantinel, G. Farisato, E. Giro, R. Gratton, L. Lessio, A.L. Maire, D. Mesa, B. Salasnich, S. Scuderi, E. Sissa, M. Turatto, A. Zurlo, JL Beuzit, A. Boccaletti, G. Chauvin, K. Dohlen, G. Finger, J. H. Girard, M. Kasper, N. Hubin, M. Langlois, J. L. Lizon, D. Mouillet, P. Puget, F. Wildi

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Proceedings Volume 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI; 99083H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232827
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The VLT second generation instrument SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanets Research) was commissioned in the Summer of 2014, and offered to the community in the Spring of 2015. SPHERE is a high contrast imager that exploits its three scientific channels in order to observe and discover young warm exoplanets in the glare of their host stars. The three scientific instrument are: ZIMPOL, a polarization analyzer and imager that works in the visible range of wavelength, IRDIS a dual band imager and spectro polarimetric Camera that works in the NIR range up to K band, and IFS, an integral field spectrograph working in the YJH band. Very important is the complementarity between IRDIS and IFS. The former has a larger Field of view (about 12 arcseconds) while the IFS push its examination very close to the central star (FoV ~ 1.7 arcsec). In one year of operational time a lot of very interesting scientific cases were investigated and very nice results were gathered. In this paper we would like to focus the attention on the high quality results and performances obtained with the IFS.

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R. Claudi, J. Antichi, A. Baruffolo, P. Bruno, E. Cascone, V. DeCaprio, M. DePascale, S. Desidera, V. D'Orazi, D. Fantinel, G. Farisato, E. Giro, R. Gratton, L. Lessio, A.L. Maire, D. Mesa, B. Salasnich, S. Scuderi, E. Sissa, M. Turatto, A. Zurlo, JL Beuzit, A. Boccaletti, G. Chauvin, K. Dohlen, G. Finger, J. H. Girard, M. Kasper, N. Hubin, M. Langlois, J. L. Lizon, D. Mouillet, P. Puget, and F. Wildi "Pushing down with the contrast: scientific performances with SPHERE-IFS", Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99083H (9 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232827

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