4 papers
The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the 4-m DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument: installation and commissioning update
Jonas G. Kühn, Ruben Tandon, Lucas Marquis +9
The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument is a novel high-contrast direct imaging facility that was recently installed o…
RISTRETTO: reflected-light exoplanet spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of the VLT
Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind, Bruno Chazelas +28
RISTRETTO is a visible high-resolution spectrograph fed by an extreme adaptive optics (AO) system, to be proposed as a visitor instrument on ESO VLT. The main science goal of RISTR…
The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument: On-site status update ahead of first light
Jonas G. Kühn, Laurent Jolissaint, Audrey Baur +8
The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument is a novel high-contrast direct imaging facility that was recently delivered t…
Discovery space and science with the PLACID stellar coronagraph
Ruben Tandon, Liurong Lin, Axel Potier +4
The world's first ever ''adaptive stellar coronagraph'' facility will be the PLACID instrument, installed on Turkey's new national observatory 4-m DAG telescope. PLACID incorporate…