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most citedHigh strehl and high contrast for the ELT instrument METIS -- Final design, implementation, and predicted performance of the single-conjugate adaptive optics system

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METIS high-contrast imaging simulations: From instrument modelling to science readiness

Gilles Orban de Xivry, Olivier Absil, Iain Hammond +9

The Mid-infrared Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) instrument, expected to see first light in early 2030, aims to detect and characterise exoplanets a…

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Development of an adaptive optics testbed at MPIA for the ELT/Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS)

Raphaël Pourcelot, Thomas Bertram, Peter Bizenberger +5

The Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS) is a proposed second-generation instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), dedicated to the direct imaging and characterization…

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Maximising the mid-infrared high-contrast performance of ELT/METIS despite water vapour seeing

Olivier Absil, Gilles Orban de Xivry, Prashant Pathak +7

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) will be equipped with a SCAO system delivering Strehl ratios above 90% at L band (3.5 - 4.1 um) and close to 99% at N band (8 -…

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Assembly, integration, and verification of MITESI: an optical testbed for simulating the ELT in the laboratory

Daniel J Ahrer, M. Concepción Cárdenas Vázquez, Thomas Bertram +5

MITESI is an optical testbed which simulates key characteristics of the ELT, ultimately producing an artificial natural guide star. It was designed primarily to enable testing of t…

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A 5kHz modulator for pyramid wavefront sensors

Maximilian Häberle, Vianak Naranjo, Yared Reinarz +5

Despite the emergence of new types of wavefront sensors, the modulated pyramid wavefront sensor remains the workhorse for ELT instrumentation, and is among the options even for adv…