Instrumentation studies for the E-ELT
In advance of the final construction plan for the telescope and the first-light instrumentation suite, there were eight Phase A studies, five of which featured UK involvement in the instrument design:
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EAGLE: Multi-IFU, near-IR spectrometer
Institutes: Durham/UK ATC; further info: Chris Evans - EPICS: Extreme AO imager & spectropolarimeter
for studies of exo-planets
Institutes: Oxford; further info: Niranjan Thatte - HARMONI: Single-field, wide-band,
integral-field spectrometer
Institutes: Oxford/UK ATC; further info: Niranjan Thatte - METIS: Thermal infrared imager & spectrometer
Institutes: UK ATC; further info: Alistair Glasse - OPTIMOS-EVE: Seeing-limited, high multiplex, optical/near-IR spectrograph
Institutes: Oxford; further info: Gavin Dalton
Durham University and the UK ATC are also partners in CANARY, the E-ELT pathfinder experiment for laser guide star, multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO) on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope in La Palma.
UK scientists were also involved in the other studies, namely:
- CODEX: High-resolution, ultra-stable optical spectrograph
Further info: Martin Haehnelt [IoA, Cambridge] - MICADO: Near-IR, high-resolution imaging camera
- SIMPLE: High-resolution, cross-dispersed near-IR spectrometer
