Shaping the Italian contribution to HWO

Session

Ground based synergies

11 Jul 2025, 10:10

Rome

46. SETI and HWO

Claudio Maccone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11/07/2025, 10:10

SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, started in 1959 when Giuseppe Cocconi and Phil Morrison (then both at Cornell) realized that radio communications between nearby stars was indeed possible even with the modest radio telescopes (30 meters in diameter) then available.

No ET Civilization was discovered up to 2025, but the amount of searched space is very small indeed.

By...

48. PCS at ELT as a precursor for HWO

Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11/07/2025, 10:20

The Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS) for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is a new instrument proposed for the direct detection and characterization of exoplanets in the neighbourhood of the Sun. This goal is achieved by a combination of eXtreme Adaptive Optics (XAO), coronagraphy and spectroscopy.
PCS will allow to gather both images and high-resolution spectra, allowing the...

35. CUBES and ANDES: ground-based technological enablers for the HWO

Paolo Di Marcantonio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11/07/2025, 10:30

51. On the sinergy between HWO and ground-based high-resolutions spectrographs

Gloria Guilluy (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11/07/2025, 11:15

​​The atmospheric characterisation of nearby rocky exoplanets will soon become achievable thanks to the next generation of telescopes, such as the ground-based Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and the proposed space mission Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO).

This powerful synergy between ground- and space-based facilities will open new frontiers in the study of exoplanet atmospheres by...

36. MAVIS: sharper than JWST, deeper than HST

Giovanni Cresci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11/07/2025, 11:25

MAVIS (MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) is a new facility instrument for the ESO VLT being built by an Australian (Astralis - lead), Italian (INAF) and French (LAM) consortium. MAVIS pushes the frontier of new instrument technologies to provide, for the first time, wide-field, diffraction-limited angular resolution at visible wavelengths. Enhancing the VLT Adaptive Optics...