ELF - Exo Life Finder

Render image of ELF Telescope
Start year
2019
Organizational Unit
IACTEC
General
Description

The ExoLife Finder is made of a large ring of small primary mirrors to achieve high angular spatial resolution with the main scientific objective of studying the atmospheres of exoplanets to look for biomarkers. ELF will work as an interferometer to remove the central bright star to reveal the close exoplanet.

The mini-ELF telescope consists of an array of 15 off-axis 0.5-m telescopes from a common parent parabola, arranged in a circle of 3.5-m in diameter. miniELF is a project that is part of IACTEC's "Large Telescopes" with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the European Solar Telescope, and the New Robotic Telescope.

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  • ExoLife Finder (ELF)
    Initiation of LIOM, the IAC Laboratory for Innovation in Optomechanics
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Type
IACTec
State
In progress
Link to ELF Project
ELF Project video presentation
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