Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)
Liske, J., Grazian, A., Vanzella, E., Dessauges, M., Viel, M., Pasquini, L., ...
The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...
Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)
Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...
The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...
Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)
Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...
The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...
Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)
Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...
The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...
Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)
Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...
The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...
The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more.. (2007)
Cristiani, S., Avila, G., Bonifacio, P., Bouchy, F., Carswell, B., D'Odorico, S., ...
CODEX, a high resolution, super-stable spectrograph to be fed by the E-ELT, the most powerful telescope ever conceived, will for the first time provide the possibility of directly measuring the...
OWL Optical design, active optics and error budget, SPIE 2000 (2007)
P. Dierickx, B. Delabre, L. Noethe
We explore solutions for the optical design of the OWL 100-m telescope, and discuss their properties, advantages and drawbacks in relation to top level requirements. Combining cost, design,...
THE OPTICS OF THE OWL 100-M ADAPTIVE TELESCOPE (2007)
P. Dierickx, J. Beletic, B. Delabre, M. Ferrari, R. Gilmozzi, N. Hubin
The optical design of the OWL 100-m class visible and near-infrared telescope, with integrated adaptive optics, departs substantially from classical two-mirror solutions. We propose using spherical...
THE FUTURE OF FILLED APERTURE TELESCOPES: IS A 100m FEASIBLE? (2007)
R. Gilmozzi, B. Delabre, P. Dierickx, N. Hubin, F. Koch, G. Monnet, ...
We explore the scientific case and the conceptual feasibility of giant filled aperture telescopes, in the light of science goals needing an order of magnitude increase in aperture size, and...
The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more (2007)
Cristiani, Stefano, Avila, Gerardo, Bonifacio, Piercarlo, Bouchy, Francois, Carswell, B., D'Odorico, Sandro D., ...
CODEX, a high-resolution, super-stable spectrograph to be fed by the E-ELT, the most powerful telescope ever conceived, will for the first time provide the possibility of directly measuring the...
The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more (2007)
Cristiani, Stefano, Avila, Gerardo, Bonifacio, Piercarlo, Bouchy, Francois, Carswell, B., D'Odorico, Sandro D., ...
CODEX, a high-resolution, super-stable spectrograph to be fed by the E-ELT, the most powerful telescope ever conceived, will for the first time provide the possibility of directly measuring the...
On-sky results of the adaptive optics MACAO for the new IR-spectrograph CRIRES at VLT (2006)
Paufique, J., Biereichel, P., Delabre, B., Donaldson, R., Esteves, R., Fedrigo, E., ...
The adaptive optics MACAO has been implemented in 6 focii of the VLT observatory, in three different flavors. We present in this paper the results obtained during the commissioning of the last of...
MACAO-CRIRES, a step towards high-resolution spectroscopy (2006)
Paufique, J., Biereichel, P., Donaldson, R., Delabre, B., Fedrigo, E., Franza, F., ...
High resolution spectroscopy made an important step ahead 10 years ago, leading for example to the discovery of numerous exoplanets. But the IR did not benefit from this improvement until very...
Probing unexplored territories with MUSE: a second generation instrument for the VLT (2006)
Bacon, R., Bauer, S., Boehm, P., Boudon, D., Brau-Nogue, S., Caillier, P., ...
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph under preliminary design study. MUSE has a field of 1x1 arcmin**2 sampled at 0.2x0.2...
Challenges in optics for Extremely Large Telescope instrumentation (2006)
Spanò, P., Zerbi, F. M., Norrie, C. J., Cunningham, C. R., Strassmeier, K. G., Bianco, A., ...
We describe and summarize the optical challenges for future instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). Knowing the complex instrumental requirements is crucial for the successful design...
Gonte, F., Yaitskova, N., Derie, F., Constanza, A., Brast, R., Buzzoni, B., ...
The future European Extremely Large Telescope will be composed of one or two giant segmented mirrors (up to 100 m of diameter) and of several large monolithic mirrors (up to 8 m in diameter). To...
X-shooter: UV-to-IR intermediate-resolution high-efficiency spectrograph for the ESO VLT (2004)
D'Odorico, S., Andersen, M.I., Conconi, P., Caprio, V. De, Delabre, B., Marcantonio, P. Di, ...
X-shooter is a single target spectrograph for the Cassegrain focus of one of the VLT UTs. It covers in a single exposure the spectral range from the UV to the H band with a possible extension into...
SINFONI - Integral Field Spectroscopy at 50 milli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT (2003)
Eisenhauer, F., Bonnet, H., Abuter, R., Bickert, K., Bianca-Marchet, F., Brynnel, J., ...
SINFONI is an adaptive optics assisted near-infrared integral field spectrometer for the ESO VLT. The Adaptive Optics Module (built by the ESO Adaptive Optics Group) is a 60-elements curvature-sensor...
MACAO-VLTI first light: Adaptive optics at the service of interferometry (2003)
Arsenault, R., Alonso, J., Bonnet, H., Brynnel, J., Delabre, B., Donaldson, R., ...
The AO department of ESO has completed the design of an adaptive AO system for the VLT Interferometer. Ordering of components, manufacturing and integration took place in 2001 and 2002. The system is...