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High contrast imaging performance of E-ELT/METIS
Carlomagno, Brunella
2017AO4ELT5 International Conference
 

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Keywords :
Instrumentation:infrared vortex coronagraph; End-to-end performance simulations; ELT/METIS instrument
Abstract :
[en] In the era of 8- to 10-m class telescopes, direct detection of exoplanets has become a reality: from the Keck/NIRC2 infrared camera to the Gemini Planet Imager, from the VLT/SPHERE to the Subaru/ SCExAO and the LBT/ LMIRCam , new and fascinating discoveries are announced at an increasing pace. Within the next 10 years, extremely large telescopes should provide the angular resolution and the sensitivity level to start addressing low-mass planets (potentially down to the super-Earth regime) in the habitable zone of nearby stars. In this context, the E-ELT first-light instrument METIS has a prominent role to play: its high contrast imaging design includes two of the latest evolutions of stellar coronagraphs, namely the Apodized Phase Plate (APP) and the vortex coronagraph, which are currently operating in several world-leading infrared camera (APPs at Magellan/CLIO, LBT/LMIRCam; vortex coronagraphs at VLT/NACO, VLT/VISIR, Keck/NIRC2, LBT/LMIRCam, Subaru/SCExAO). In this talk, we give an overview of the high-contrast imaging modes of the METIS instrument, the only MIR first-light instrument on any of the ELTs, and present L band end-to-end performance simulations of both the APP and vortex coronagraphic modes. The non-circular, centrally obstructed, segmented pupil challenges the coronagraphic performances. In our design study, we have thus identified and developed custom solutions to optimize the coronagraphic capabilities in realistic conditions. The effects of the adaptive optics residuals, including wind-induced pointing jitter, are included in our simulations to predict future on-sky performance. Finally, we will discuss the influence of non-common path aberrations on the final performance of the instrument for high-contrast imaging, and we will illustrate the scientific capabilities of METIS for the detection of low-mass planets and exozodiacal disks.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Carlomagno, Brunella ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > ISSPSILAB
Language :
English
Title :
High contrast imaging performance of E-ELT/METIS
Publication date :
26 June 2017
Number of pages :
SPIE poster
Event name :
AO4ELT5 International Conference
Event organizer :
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Event place :
Tenerife, Spain, Spain
Event date :
from 25-06-2017 to 30-06-2017
Audience :
International
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