HARMONI at ELT: overview of the capabilities and expected performance of the ELT's first light, adaptive optics assisted integral field spectrograph.

Thatte, Niranjan A.; Melotte, Dave; Neichel, Benoit; Le Mignant, David; Bryson, Ian; Clarke, Fraser; Ferraro-Wood, Vanessa; Fusco, Thierry; Gonzalez, Oscar; Schnetler, Hermine; Tecza, Matthias; Wilson, Sandi; Álvarez Urueña, Alonso; Vilaseca, Heribert A.; Arribas, Santiago; Carracedo Carballale, Gonzalo José; Crespo, Alejandro; Estrada Piqueras, Alberto; García García, Miriam; Martínez Martín, Cecilai; Pereira Santaella, Miguel; Perna, Michele; Piqueras Lopez, Javier; Bouché, Niolas; Boudon, Didier; Daguise, Eric; Disseau, Karen; Fensch, Jérémy J.; Girardot, Adrien; Guibert, Matthieu; Jarno, Aurélien; Jeanneau, Alexandre; Krogager, Jens-Kristian; Laurent, Florence; Loupias, Magali; Migniau, Jean-Emmanuel; Piqueras, Laure; Remillieux, Alban; Richard, Johan; Pecontal, Arlette; Bardou, Lisa F.; Barr, David; Cetre, Sylvain; Deshmukh, Rishi; Dimoudi, Sofia; Dubbledam, Marc; Dunn, Andrew; Gadotti, Dimitri; Guy, Joss J.; King, David; Little, David J.; McLeod, Anna; Morris, Simon; Morris, Tim; O'Brien, Kieran S.; Ronson, Emily; Smith, Russell; Staykov, Lazar; Swinbank, Mark; Townson, Matthew; Accardo, Matteo; Alvarez Mendez, Domingo; George, Elizabeth; Hopgood, Joshua; Ives, Derek; Mehrgan, Leander; Mueller, Eric; Reyes, Javier; Conzelmann, Ralf; Gutierrez Cheetham, Pablo; Alonso-Sánchez, Ángel; Battaglia, Giuseppina; Cagigas, Miguel; Chulani, Haresh; Delgado García, Graciela; Fernandez Izquierdo, Patricia; Fragoso López, Ana Belén.; García-Lorenzo, Begoña.; Hernández González, Alberto; Hernandez Suarez, Elvio; Herreros Linares, Jose Miguel; Joven, Enrique; López López, Roberto; Lujan Gonzalez, Alejandro Antonio; Martín Hernando, Yolanda; Mediavilla, Evencio; Menéndez Mendoza, Saúl; Montoya Martínez, Luz Maria; Peñate Castro, José; Pérez, Álvaro; Rasilla, Jose Luis; Rebolo, Rafael; Rodríguez Ramos, Luis Fernando; Vega-Moreno, Afrodisio; Viera, Teodora; Zanon Dametto, Natacha; Carlotti, Alexis; Correia, Jean-Jacques; Curaba, Stéphane; Delboulbe, Alain et al.
Bibliographical reference

Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX

Advertised on:
8
2022
Number of authors
200
IAC number of authors
26
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
HARMONI is the first light, adaptive optics assisted, integral field spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). A work-horse instrument, it provides the ELT's diffraction limited spectroscopic capability across the near-infrared wavelength range. HARMONI will exploit the ELT's unique combination of exquisite spatial resolution and enormous collecting area, enabling transformational science. The design of the instrument is being finalized, and the plans for assembly, integration and testing are being detailed. We present an overview of the instrument's capabilities from a user perspective, and provide a summary of the instrument's design. We also include recent changes to the project, both technical and programmatic, that have resulted from red-flag actions. Finally, we outline some of the simulated HARMONI observations currently being analyzed.