The European Extremely Large Telescope: science goals and technology challenges.

Autores
Prof.
Colin Cunningham
Fecha y hora
3 Jun 2010 - 00:00 Europe/London
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Aula

Idioma de la charla
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Idioma de la presentación
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Número en la serie
0
Descripción
Teams from industry, universities and institutes across Europe are contributing to the design and development phase of the European Southern Observatory's project to build the world's biggest optical/infrared telescope. I will outline some of exciting scientific prospects for a fully-adaptive 42m telescope, from studying exoplanets to the furthest galaxies, and then show how some of the technical challenges are being addressed. I will place special emphasis on the work UK teams are doing on instrumentation, detectors and adaptive optics.