3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Structural, thermal and optical tolerance analysis of SHARP, a near infrared spectrograph for next generation telescope
H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, I. DI Antonio +15
The design and verification of cryogenic near-infrared spectrographs require rigorous multidisciplinary analyses to ensure optical performance under realistic operational condition…
astro-ph.EP2026
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…
astro-ph.IM2025
Conceptual Opto-Mechanical design of SHARP: a near-infrared multi-mode spectrograph conceived for the next-generation telescopes
H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, P. Conconi +18
The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with their wide apertures and advanced Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, will provide unprecedented sharp an…