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Instrumento MICADO del ELT aprueba revisión preliminar de diseño
21 de Enero de 2020
Se ha logrado un importante hito en la revisión del diseño de MICADO, el primer sistema generador de imágenes para el Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) de ESO. El consorcio MICADO, junto con un grupo de expertos externos de todo el mundo, se reunió en la Sede Central de ESO en Garching, para una semana de profundo análisis que involucró la óptica, mecánica, software, electrónica y plan de presupuesto del instrumento, a fin de identificar cualquier aspecto que requiriera un mayor proceso de diseño. Tras la reunión, el equipo de MICADO resolvió todas las cuestiones principales planteadas durante la revisión y el instrumento ha aprobado formalmente la etapa de revisión preliminar de diseño. Ahora ya está en marcha una fase más detallada del diseño, que conducirá a la revisión de diseño final y a la construcción de los diversos componentes del instrumento.
Preparado tanto para obtener imágenes como para observaciones espectrográficas, MICADO (siglas en inglés de Multi-Adaptive Optics Imaging Camera for Deep Observations) se centrará en la obtención de imágenes y espectroscopia en el infrarrojo cercano, con una combinación de sensibilidad y precisión sin precedentes. Para evitar el efecto de distorsión de la atmósfera, MICADO contará con dos sistemas de óptica adaptativa. Uno utilizará el espejo deformable M4 del telescopio que brindará imágenes nítidas sobre un campo de visión estrecho; el otro utiliza las plenas capacidades del módulo de óptica adaptativa MAORY para proporcionar un campo de visión más amplio.
MICADO tendrá flexibilidad para observar diversos tipos de objetos y sus capacidades espectroscópicas podrán aportar considerablemente a nuestro conocimiento de la composición de dichos objetos. El instrumento permitirá estudiar algunos de los temas más relevantes de la astronomía, incluyendo la formación de exoplanetas, cómo los agujeros negros al centro de galaxias afectan a sus anfitriones, y cómo el Universo ha evolucionado con el transcurso del tiempo.
Información adicional
El consorcio MICADO está compuesto por: MPE (Instituto Max-Planck para Física Extraterrestre, Alemania); MPIA (Instituto Max-Planck para Astronomía, Alemania); USM (Universidad de Sternwarte en München, Alemania); IAG (Instituto de Astrofísica de la Universidad Georg-August-Göttingen, Alemania); NOVA (Escuela de Investigaciones Astronómicas de los Países Bajos, representada por la Universidad de Groningen, la Universidad de Leiden y el grupo de instrumentación óptica e infrarroja NOVA, basado en ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Países Bajos), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica (INAF), CNRS/INSU: Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica/Instituto Nacional de Ciencias del Universo, en representación de LESIA, GEPI e IPAG, Francia; A*: (una asociación austríaca representada por la Universidad de Viena, la Universidad de Innsbruck, la Universidad de Linz y RICAM Linz, Academia Austríaca de Ciencias, Austria) y el Centro Finlandés de Astronomía junto a ESO (FINCA), Universidad de Turku, Finlandia.
Enlaces
- Multi-Adaptive Optics Imaging Camera for Deep Observations — MICADO
- Extremely Large Telescope de ESO
Contactos
Suzanne Ramsay
ESO Head of Project Science Department
Garching bei München, Germany
Tel: +49 89 3200 6665
Email: sramsay@eso.org
Bárbara Ferreira
ESO Public Information Officer
Garching bei München, Germany
Tel: +49 89 3200 6670
Cell: +49 151 241 664 00
Email: pio@eso.org
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