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19972026
most citedX-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope

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47 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Searching for Gravitational Wave Events Counterparts in X-Rays by Tilting the Multiple Shells of Wolter-I Optics

John Rankin, Daniele Spiga, Paolo Conconi +5

Current X-ray telescopes have a combination of field of view and angular resolution that makes it difficult to quickly localize the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wa…

astro-ph.IM2026

Structural, thermal and optical tolerance analysis of SHARP, a near infrared spectrograph for next generation telescope

H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, I. DI Antonio +15

The design and verification of cryogenic near-infrared spectrographs require rigorous multidisciplinary analyses to ensure optical performance under realistic operational condition…

astro-ph.IM2026

SHARP -- A spectrograph proposal to fully exploit ELT capabilities and look beyond JWST

P. Saracco, P. Conconi, C. Arcidiacono +47

The Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with their large apertures and cutting-edge Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, promise to deliver data that is both sharper and…

astro-ph.IM2025

SHARP: Beyond JWST -- Revealing the galaxy birth and growth with the resolution of the ELT

P. Saracco, P. Conconi, C. Arcidiacono +37

A deep understanding of the life-cycle of galaxies, particularly those of high mass, requires clarifying the mechanisms that regulate star formation (SF) and its abrupt shutdown (q…

astro-ph.IM2025

Study of Lobster and Kirkpatrick-Baez Designs for a Small Mission dedicated to Gravitational Wave Transient Localization

John Rankin, Sergio Campana, Giovanni Pareschi +5

The localization of X-ray counterparts to gravitational wave events requires a telescope with accurate localization capability in a field of view comparable to the region constrain…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Conceptual Opto-Mechanical design of SHARP: a near-infrared multi-mode spectrograph conceived for the next-generation telescopes

H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, P. Conconi +18

The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with their wide apertures and advanced Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, will provide unprecedented sharp an…