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most citedMolecular outflow and feedback in the obscured Quasar XID2028 revealed by ALMA

106 citations · 364 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

MORFEO: Advancing Towards Final Design

Lorenzo Busoni, Guido Agapito, Marco Bonaglia +106

The Multiconjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations (MORFEO) is a first-generation adaptive optics module for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), designed to deliver a d…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

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

We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the Pictoris system. We detect Pictoris d ( Pic d) in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERI…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The gas streamer G1-2-3 in the Galactic Center

S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, J. Cuadra +61

The black hole in the Galactic Center, Sgr A*, is prototypical for ultra-low-fed galactic nuclei. The discovery of a hand-full of gas clumps in the realm of a few Earth masses in i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

High-contrast spectroscopy with the new VLT/ERIS instrument: Molecular maps and radial velocity of the gas giant AF Lep b

Jean Hayoz, Markus Johannes Bonse, Felix Dannert +66

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) is the new Adaptive-Optics (AO) assisted Infrared instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its refurbished Integral Fiel…

astro-ph.IM2024

GPI 2.0: Exploring The Impact of Different Readout Modes on the Wavefront Sensor's EMCCD

Clarissa R. Do Ó, Saavidra Perera, Jérôme Maire +26

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that aims to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. GPI is being upgraded to GPI 2.0, with several subsyst…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan +286

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion E…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Near-Infrared Observations of Outflows and YSOs in the Massive Star-Forming Region AFGL 5180

S. Crowe, R. Fedriani, J. C. Tan +30

Methods: Broad- and narrow-band imaging of AFGL 5180 was made in the NIR with the LBT, in both seeing-limited ($\sim0.5\arcsec$) and high angular resolution ($\sim0.09\arcsec$) Ada…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

SOUL at LBT: commissioning results, science and future

Enrico Pinna, Fabio Rossi, Guido Agapito +27

The SOUL systems at the Large Bincoular Telescope can be seen such as precursor for the ELT SCAO systems, combining together key technologies such as EMCCD, Pyramid WFS and adaptiv…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

MORFEO enters final design phase

Lorenzo Busoni, Guido Agapito, Alessandro Ballone +81

MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY), the MCAO system for the ELT, will provide diffraction-limited optical quality to the large fiel…

astro-ph.IM2023

NGSs acquisition in MORFEO

Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +3

MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observation) is the future multi-conjugate adaptive optics system for the ESO ELT that will feed the instrument MICADO (Multi-…

astro-ph.IM2023

GPI 2.0: Performance Evaluation of the Wavefront Sensor's EMCCD

Clarissa R. Do Ó, Saavidra Perera, Jérôme Maire +26

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that aims to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. GPI is being upgraded to GPI 2.0, with several subsyst…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 42 cited

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph for the VLT

R. Davies, O. Absil, G. Agapito +81

ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is an instrument that both extends and enhances the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 39 cited

Orbital and dynamical analysis of the system around HR 8799. New astrometric epochs from VLT/SPHERE and LBT/LUCI

A. Zurlo, K. Gozdziewski, C. Lazzoni D. Mesa +44

HR\,8799 is a young planetary system composed of 4 planets and a double debris belt. Being the first multi-planetary system discovered with the direct imaging technique, it has bee…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

MAORY: A Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY for ELT

Paolo Ciliegi, Guido Agapito, Matteo Aliverti +73

MAORY is the adaptive optics module for ELT providing two gravity invariant ports with the same optical quality for two different client instruments. It enable high angular resolut…

astro-ph.IM2021

Bringing SOUL on sky

Enrico Pinna, Fabio Rossi, Alfio Puglisi +20

The SOUL project is upgrading the 4 SCAO systems of LBT, pushing the current guide star limits of about 2 magnitudes fainter thanks to Electron Multiplied CCD detector. This improv…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 2 cited

New high-resolution near-infrared observations of the asymmetric jet of the massive young stellar object G192.16-3.82

Paul A. Boley, Hendrik Linz, Nadezhda Dmitrienko +6

The process of massive star formation is tightly connected with the appearance of molecular outflows, which interact with surrounding interstellar medium and can be used as a proxy…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 1 cited

High resolution morphology and surface photometry of KIG 685 and KIG 895 with ARGOS+LUCI

R. Rampazzo, M. Uslenghi, I. Y. Giorgiev +14

We aim to refine the sample of isolated early-type galaxies in the AMIGA catalogue via high resolution imaging. Here we report the result from a pilot study investigating two candi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 9 cited

The Milky Way like galaxy NGC 6384 and its nuclear star cluster at high NIR spatial resolution using LBT/ARGOS commissioning data

Iskren Y. Georgiev, Nadine Neumayer, Wolfgang Gaessler +11

We analyse high spatial resolution near infra-red (NIR) imaging of NGC6384, a Milky Way like galaxy, using ARGOS commissioning data at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). ARGOS pr…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 98 cited

The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51

Xiaohui Fan, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +17

Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful probe of the physical properties of quasars and their host galaxies. A high fraction of the most luminous high-redshift quasars was…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 8 cited

LBT/ARGOS adaptive optics observations of z lensed galaxies

M. Perna, M. Curti, G. Cresci +24

Gravitationally lensed systems allow a detailed view of galaxies at high redshift. High spatial- and spectral-resolution measurements of arc-like structures can offer unique constr…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 25 cited

ARGOS at the LBT. Binocular laser guided ground layer adaptive optics

S. Rabien, R. Angel, L. Barl +48

Having completed its commissioning phase, the Advanced Rayleigh guided Ground-layer adaptive Optics System (ARGOS) facility is coming online for scientific observations at the Larg…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 106 cited

Molecular outflow and feedback in the obscured Quasar XID2028 revealed by ALMA

M. Brusa, G. Cresci, E. Daddi +29

We imaged with ALMA and ARGOS/LUCI the molecular gas and the dust and stellar continuum in XID2028, an obscured QSO at z=1.593, where the presence of a massive outflow in the ioniz…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 4 cited

Resolving the Host Galaxy of a Distant Blazar with LBT/LUCI1 + ARGOS

Emanuele Paolo Farina, Iskren Y. Georgiev, Roberto Decarli +14

BL Lac objects emitting in the Very High Energy (VHE) regime are unique tools to peer into the properties of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL). However, due to the typical a…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1 cited

Design of the wavefront sensor unit of ARGOS, the LBT laser guide star system

Marco Bonaglia

ARGOS is the laser guide star ground layer adaptive optics system of the LBT. ARGOS is designed to bring a moderate but uniform reduction of the PSF size over a FoV as large as 4x4…