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Publications (16)

astro-ph.IM2022

Status of the PSF Reconstruction Work Package for MICADO ELT

Andrea Grazian, Matteo Simioni, Carmelo Arcidiacono +20

MICADO is a workhorse instrument for the ESO ELT, allowing first light capability for diffraction limited imaging and long-slit spectroscopy at near-infrared wavelengths. The PSF R…

astro-ph.IM2022

BRUTE, PSF Reconstruction for the SOUL pyramid-based Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics facility of the LBT

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Andrea Grazian, Anita Zanella +11

The astronomical applications greatly benefit from the knowledge of the instrument PSF. We describe the PSF Reconstruction algorithm developed for the LBT LUCI instrument assisted…

astro-ph.IM2023

FLYEYE family tree, from smart fast cameras to MezzoCielo

Roberto Ragazzoni, Silvio Di Rosa, Carmelo Arcidiacono +8

We developed game-changing concepts for meter(s) class very-wide-field telescopes, spanning three orders of magnitude of the covered field of view. Multiple cameras and monocentric…

astro-ph.IM2024

The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: off-axis performance of PSF reconstruction

Matteo Simioni, Daniel Jodlbauer, Carmelo Arcidiacono +14

The highest scientific return, for adaptive optics (AO) observations, is achieved with a reliable reconstruction of the PSF. This is especially true for MICADO@ELT. In this present…

astro-ph.IM2022

LBT SOUL data as a science test bench for MICADO PSF-R tool

Matteo Simioni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Roland Wagner +14

Current state-of-the-art adaptive optics (AO) provides ground-based, diffraction-limited observations with high Strehl ratios (SR). However, a detailed knowledge of the point sprea…

astro-ph.IM2020

MICADO PSF-Reconstruction work package description

Matteo Simioni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Andrea Grazian +25

The point spread function reconstruction (PSF-R) capability is a deliverable of the MICADO@ESO-ELT project. The PSF-R team works on the implementation of the instrument software de…

astro-ph.IM2024

FlyEye Ground-Based Telescope: Unveiling New Frontiers in Astronomical Science

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Matteo Simioni, Roberto Ragazzoni +15

The FlyEye design makes its debut in the ESA's NEOSTEL developed by OHB-Italia. This pioneering FlyEye telescope integrates a monolithic 1-meter class primary mirror feeding 16 CCD…

astro-ph.SR2016

The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. X. The radial distribution of stellar populations in NGC 2808

Matteo Simioni, Antonino P. Milone, Luigi R. Bedin +4

Due to their extreme helium abundance, the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 2808 have been widely investigated from a photometric, spectroscopic, and kinema…

astro-ph.SR2025

LRPayne: Stellar parameters and abundances from low-resolution spectra

Nagaraj Vernekar, Lorenzo Spina, Sara Lucatello +4

Aims. This paper introduces LRPayne, a novel algorithm designed for the efficient determination of stellar parameters and chemical abundances from low-resolution optical spectra, w…

astro-ph.IM2024

The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: the PSF Reconstruction Software

Andrea Grazian, Elisa Portaluri, Matteo Simioni +10

MICADO is the first-light camera of the ESO ELT, allowing NIR imaging and long-slit spectroscopy assisted by adaptive optics. MICADO is now entering its construction phase, and the…

astro-ph.IM2024

A numerical simulation study of an astrometry case for MORFEO at the ELT

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Elisa Portaluri, Marco Gullieuszik +7

We report results from numerical simulations assessing astrometry measurements with the Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics Relay for ELT Observations (MORFEO) instrument on the Extreme…

astro-ph.IM2023

Towards the MICADO@ELT PSF-R with simulated and real data

Matteo Simioni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Andrea Grazian +5

Observations close to the diffraction limit, with high Strehl ratios from Adaptive Optics (AO)-assisted instruments mounted on ground-based telescopes are a reality and will become…

astro-ph.CO2016

The Canarias Einstein Ring: a Newly Discovered Optical Einstein Ring

Margherita Bettinelli, Matteo Simioni, Antonio Aparicio +5

We report the discovery of an optical Einstein Ring in the Sculptor constellation, IAC J010127-334319, in the vicinity of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. It is an almost comp…

astro-ph.IM2022

Point spread function reconstruction for SOUL+LUCI LBT data

Matteo Simioni, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Roland Wagner +14

This paper presents the status of an ongoing project aimed at developing a PSF reconstruction software for adaptive optics (AO) observations. In particular, we test for the first t…

astro-ph.GA2020

Statistical analysis of Galactic globular cluster type properties

Matteo Simioni, Antonio Aparicio, Giampaolo Piotto

The analysis of pseudo-colour diagrams, the so-called chromosome maps, of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) permits to classify them into type I and type II clusters. Type II GCs ar…

astro-ph.CO2024

What are the Pillars of Reionization? Revising the AGN Luminosity Function at z~5

Andrea Grazian, Emanuele Giallongo, Konstantina Boutsia +22

In the past, high-z AGNs were given a minor role as possible drivers of reionization, despite initial evidences in favor of their large space densities at low luminosities by Chand…