8 papers
The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: the SCAO module AIT in France, from the beta flat configuration towards the flat and final configurations
Yann Clénet, Vincent Lapeyrère, Eric Gendron +45
The paper reports on the integration and testing (AIT) of the single‑conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO) module for MICADO, the first‑light near‑infrared imager of the ELT, describing…
The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: an overview of the RAM analysis and consequent design and maintenance strategy
Federico Biondi, Yann Clénet, Patrick Caillier +7
The paper describes the reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis for MICADO, a cryogenic near-infrared imager for the ELT, and how this analysis influenced its…
The MICADO first-light imager for the ELT: first steps of the SCAO system MAIT
Yann Clénet, Eric Gendron, Fabrice Vidal +39
The paper reports on the early manufacturing and integration steps of the single-conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO) module for MICADO, the first-light imager of the Extremely Large T…
Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek
Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94
The paper reports the direct imaging discovery of a third giant exoplanet, β Pictoris d, using VLT/ERIS and archival JWST/NIRCam and VLT/SPHERE data, and characterizes its orbit, t…
Using VLTI/GRAVITY+ to determine the identity of a third planet candidate in the PDS 70 system
David Trevascus, Wolfgang Brandner, Olga Balsalobre-Ruza +75
Detections of protoplanets are rare and protoplanetary disk features mischaracterized as planets are common. PDS 70 is one of only two stars known to host multiple confirmed protop…
Spatially resolved broad line region in a quasar at z=4: Dynamical black hole mass and prominent outflow
GRAVITY+ Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, N. Aimar +92
We present the first near-infrared interferometric data of a QSO at z=4. The K-band observations were performed with GRAVITY+ on the VLTI using all four UTs, detecting a differenti…