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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 16, 2011
Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Shangai on Occasion of a Total Eclipse of the Sun
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| Article Number | 07003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Future Projects | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111607003 | |
| Published online | 18 July 2011 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111607003
Imaging extrasolar planets with the European Extremely Large Telescope
1 European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
2 Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, C/ Via Lactea, s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Spain
3 Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
a e-mail: sgladysz@eso.org
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is the most ambitious of the ELTs being planned. With a diameter of 42 m and being fully adaptive from the start, the E-ELT will be more than one hundred times more sensitive than the present-day largest optical telescopes. Discovering and characterising planets around other stars will be one of the most important aspects of the E-ELT science programme. We model an extreme adaptive optics instrument on the E-ELT. The resulting contrast curves translate to the detectability of exoplanets.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011
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