The far future of exoplanet direct characterization (2009)
Schneider, Jean, Leger, Alain, Fridlund, Malcolm, White, Glenn, Eiroa, Carlos, Henning, Thomas, ...
In this outlook we describe what could be the next steps of the direct characterization of habitable exoplanets after first the medium and large mission projects and investigate the benefits of the...
Darwin -— an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, Charles S., Herbst, Tom, Léger, Alain, Absil, O., Beichman, Charles, Benz, Willy, ...
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the...
Darwin---an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, Charles S, Herbst, Tom, Léger, Alain, Absil, Olivier, Beichman, Charles, Benz, Willy, ...
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015--2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the...
Surface characterization of Pluto and Charon by L and M band spectra (2008)
Protopapa, Silvia, Boehnhardt, Hermann, Herbst, Tom, Cruikshank, Dale, Grundy, Will, Merlin, Frederic, ...
Integration of the mid-high wavefront sensor to the LINC-NIRVANA post-focal relay (2008)
Schreiber, Laura, Lombini, Matteo, Foppiani, Italo, Meschke, Daniel, De Bonis, Fulvio, Bizenberger, Peter, ...
LINC-NIRVANA is an infrared camera working in Fizeau interferometric mode. The beams coming from the two primary mirrors of the LBT are corrected for the effects of the atmospheric turbulence by two...
Preparation of the calibration unit for LINC-NIRVANA (2008)
Labadie, Lucas, De Bonis, Fulvio, Egner, Sebastian, Herbst, Tom, Bizenberger, Peter, Kürster, Martin, ...
We present in this paper the status of the calibration unit for the interferometric infrared imager LINC-NIRVANA that will be installed on the Large Binocular Telescope, Arizona. LINC-NIRVANA will...
The LINC-NIRVANA fringe and flexure tracking system (2008)
Bertram, Thomas, Eckart, Andreas, Lindhorst, Bettina, Rost, Steffen, Straubmeier, Christian, Tremou, Evangelia, ...
LINC-NIRVANA is the near-infrared homothetic imaging camera for the Large Binocular Telescope. Once operational, it will provide an unprecedented combination of angular resolution, sensitivity and...
DARWIN mission proposal to ESA (2007)
The discovery of extra-solar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. There are now more than 200 such objects known, and the recent detection of planets with masses...
Kundurthy, Praveen, Meyer, Michael R., Robberto, Massimo, Beckwith, Steven V. W., Herbst, Tom
We present mid-IR N-band $(\lambda_{eff} = 10.2\micron)$ photometry of a carefully selected sample of T Tauri stars thought to be single from the Taurus-Auriga molecular cloud. Infrared excesses in...
Straubmeier, Christian, Bertram, Thomas, Eckart, Andreas, Rost, Steffen, Wang, Yeping, Herbst, Tom, ...
LINC-NIRVANA is the interferometric near-infrared imaging camera for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). Being able to observe at wavelength bands from J to K (suppported by an adaptive optics...
ONIRICA: an infrared camera for OWL with MCAO low order partial correction (2006)
Ragazzoni, Roberto, Falomo, Renato, Arcidiacono, Carmelo, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Farinato, Jacopo, Lombini, Matteo, ...
ONIRICA, standing for OWL Near InfraRed Imaging Camera, is a pre-Phase A, conceptual design study to assess the feasibility of an imaging camera for a 100m class telescope. In this paper the main...
Observation preparation software for LINC-NIRVANA (2006)
Pavlov, Aleksei, Gässler, Wolfgang, Arcidiacono, Carmelo, Berwein, Jürgen, Briegel, Florian, Schinnerer, Eva, ...
LINC-NIRVANA is a Fizeau Interferometer using the two 8.4 m mirrors of LBT in the combined focus. The images can be obtained in K, H and J Band over a 10" × 10" Field of View by means of...
Lombini, Matteo, Foppiani, Italo, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Farinato, Jacopo, Ragazzoni, Roberto, Bregoli, Giovanni, ...
The Mid-High Wavefront Sensors (MHWS) are components of the adaptive optics system of LINC-NIRVANA, the Fizeau interferometer that will be mounted at the LBT. These sensors, one for each telescope...
Kundurthy, Praveen, Meyer, Michael R., Robberto, Massimo, Beckwith, Steven V. W., Herbst, Tom
We present mid-IR N-band (lambdaeff=10.2 mum) photometry of a carefully selected sample of T Tauri stars thought to be single from the Taurus-Auriga molecular cloud. Infrared excesses in these stars...
The MCAO wavefront sensing system of LINC-NIRVANA: status report (2006)
Farinato, Jacopo, Ragazzoni, Roberto, Arcidiacono, Carmelo, Giorgia, Gentile, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Foppiani, Italo, ...
LINC-NIRVANA is an infrared camera that will work in Fizeau interferometric way at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). The two beams that will be combined in the camera are corrected by an MCAO...
Interferometric observations of the galactic center: LBT and VLTI (2006)
Eckart, Andreas, Schödel, Rainer, Straubmeier, Christian, Bertram, Thomas, Pott, Jörg-Uwe, Muzic, Koraljka, ...
Current and future opportunities for interferometric observations of the Galactic Center in the near- and mid-infrared (NIR/MIR) wavelength domain are highlighted. Main emphasis is being put on the...
LUCIFER: A multi-mode NIR instrument for the LBT (2003)
Seifert, Walter, Appenzeller, Immo, Baumeister, Harald, Bizenberger, Peter, Bomans, Dominik, Dettmar, Ralf-Juergen, ...