The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is the most ambitious of the ELTs being planned. With a diameter of 42 m and being fully adaptive from the start, the E-ELT will be more than one hundred times more sensitive than the present-day largest optical telescopes. Discovering and characterising planets around other stars will be one of the most important aspects of the E-ELT science programme. We model an extreme adaptive optics instrument on the E-ELT. The resulting contrast curves translate to the detectability of exoplanets.
Einzelheiten
Titel
Imaging extrasolar planets with the European Extremely Large Telescope
Autor(en)/ in(nen)
Gladysz, S. (European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany) Castella, B. F. (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain) Kissler-Patig, M. (European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany) Rebolo, R. (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain) Jolissaint, Laurent (University of Leiden, Leiden,The Netherlands)
Datum
2009-07
Veröffentlich in
EPJ Web of Conferences : proceedings of "Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets"
Band
2011, vol. 16
Verlag
Shangai, China, 20-24 july 2009
Umfang
4 p.
Vorgestellt auf
Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets, Shangai, China, 2009-07-20, 2009-07-24