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Dual and lensed AGN at sub-arcsecond separations uncovered by ERIS
M. V. Zanchettin, F. Mannucci, Q. D'Amato +62
We present the first results of the ongoing INAF GTO program focused on the search of sub-arcsecond dual AGN, carried out with the near-infrared integral-field unit SPIFFIER of the…
MORFEO control strategy
Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +7
The ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will offer unprecedented sensitivity and resolution in the near-infrared, marking a new era for ground-based astronomy. Among its key imagin…
Characterization of the MUSE NFM PSF as a function of atmospheric conditions: TipTop calibration
Enrico Congiu, Fuyan Bian, Carlo F. Manara +8
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) achieves exceptional spatial resolution in narrow-field mode (NFM) thanks to the GALACSI adaptive optics (AO) system. However, limitati…
DM/WFS mis-registration tracking: Implementation and on-sky validation of SPRINT at LBT
Ben Buky, Cédric Taïssir Héritier, Fabio Rossi +7
The advent of telescopes with an integrated deformable mirror (DM) presents new challenges for adaptive optics (AO) systems. The alignment between the DM and wavefront sensor (WFS)…
ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph of the ELT: simulated performance of the CORO module and overview of the high-contrast capabilities for exoplanet observations
M. N'Diaye, A. Simonnin, A. Spang +19
We present the simulated performance of the coronagraph (CORO) module for ANDES, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) high-resolution spectrograph. ANDES aims to address a broad ran…
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…
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…
SynIM: a high-performance GPU-accelerated Python library for synthetic interaction and tomographic reconstruction matrices in next-generation adaptive optics
Guido Agapito, Fabio Rossi, Alfio Puglisi
Next-generation Adaptive Optics (AO) systems for 8-40m class telescopes, such as MORFEO (ELT) and MAVIS (VLT), demand high calibration accuracy. Controlling thousands of actuators…
MORFEO wavefront error budget
Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Cédric Plantet +2
MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY) is the multi-conjugate adaptive optics module of the ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), design…
Milky-Way-like stars in a galaxy core 8 billion years ago revealed by gravitational lensing
Quirino D'Amato, Filippo Mannucci, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +40
The assembly of stellar-dominated cores in elliptical galaxies is key to understanding how cosmic structures evolved. Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into the nature o…
Introducing a new generation Adaptive Optics simulation framework: from PASSATA to SPECULA
Fabio Rossi, Alfio Puglisi, Guido Agapito
Numerical end-to-end simulation in Adaptive Optics (AO) is a key tool in the development of complex systems, from the initial design to the commissioning phase. Based on our previo…