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Extremely Large Telescopes era: (high-resolution) instrumentation, challenges, opportunities

Carlos M. Correia
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Canada

Abstract
From January 2013 onwards I will hold a EU/Marie Curie grant to work at CAUP on future high resolution stable spectrographs for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).The project dubbed PHARAOH for Detection of exo-Planets via High-Accuracy Radial-velocity spectrographic measurements with Adaptive Optics enhancement will focus on a system errors dissection to investigate the impact of the proposed built-in adaptive optics (AO) systems on the achievable radial velocity accuracy. This project stems from the strong involvement and expertise of CAUP in the VLT-ESPRESSO and ESA-PLATO consortia. Since the ELT era is meant to start depoyment in a decade or so, I will quickly tour my current activities on the development of tomographic AO systems for future generation ground-based telescopes, outlining the instrument breakdown in terms of AO requirements for both the E-ELT and the Thirty Meter Telescope. I will also discuss open challenges to instrumental research with potential participation of the Portuguese community, in particular where multidisciplinary teams composed of both astrophysicists and intrumentalists are a must.

7 March 2012, 13:30

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Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) is a new but long anticipated research infrastructure with a national dimension. It embodies a bold but feasible vision for the development of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal, taking full advantage and fully realizing the potential created by the national membership of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). IA resulted from the merging the two most prominent research units in the field in Portugal: the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP) and the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon (CAAUL). It currently hosts more than two-thirds of all active researchers working in Space Sciences in Portugal, and is responsible for an even greater fraction of the national productivity in international ISI journals in the area of Space Sciences. This is the scientific area with the highest relative impact factor (1.65 times above the international average) and the field with the highest average number of citations per article for Portugal.

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