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Performance tests on the SPHERE-IFS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2014

Dino Mesa ,
Raffaele Gratton ,
Riccardo U. Claudi ,
Silvano Desidera ,
Enrico Giro ,
Alice Zurlo ,
Anne Costille ,
Arthur Vigan ,
Claire Moutou  and
Jean-Luc Beuzit
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Dino Mesa
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
Raffaele Gratton
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
Riccardo U. Claudi
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
Silvano Desidera
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
Enrico Giro
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
Alice Zurlo
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388, Marseille, France
Anne Costille
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388, Marseille, France
Arthur Vigan
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388, Marseille, France
Claire Moutou
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388, Marseille, France
Jean-Luc Beuzit
Affiliation:
Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, UJF, CNRS, 414 rue de la piscine, 38400, Saint Martin d'Heres, France
Kjetil Dohlen
Affiliation:
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388, Marseille, France
Markus Feldt
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, Konigstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
David Mouillet
Affiliation:
Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, UJF, CNRS, 414 rue de la piscine, 38400, Saint Martin d'Heres, France
Jean-Francois Sauvage
Affiliation:
Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, UJF, CNRS, 414 rue de la piscine, 38400, Saint Martin d'Heres, France
Markus Kasper
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl Schwarzschild Strasse, 2, D-85748 Garching bei Munchen, Germany
Jacopo Antichi
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri - L.go E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
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Until now, just a few extrasolar planets (30 out of 860) have been found through the direct imaging method. This number should greatly improve when the next generation of High Contrast Instruments like Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at Gemini South Telescope or SPHERE at VLT will became operative at the end of this year. In particular, the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS), one of the SPHERE subsystems, should allow a first characterization of the spectral type of the found extrasolar planets. Here we present the results of the last performance tests that we have done on the IFS instrument at the Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) in condition as similar as possible to the ones that we will find at the telescope. We have found that we should be able to reach contrast down to 5 × 10−7 and make astrometry at sub-mas level with the instrument in the actual conditions. A number of critical issues have been identified. The resolution of these problems could allow to further improve the performance of the instrument.

Keywords

instrumentationDirect imaging
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S299: Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems , June 2013 , pp. 54 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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