17–19 Feb 2020
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma
Europe/Rome timezone

SPHERE planet imager: instrument presentation and main results

17 Feb 2020, 17:20
25m
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma

Palazzo Corsini via della Lungara, 10 Roma

Speaker

Dino Mesa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

The SPHERE planet imager is now operating at the VLT since five years.
I will present here a description of the instrument and of its performance. Morover
I will introduce the data reduction methods needed to extract science result from
the instrument data. Finally I will review the main outcome obtained from the instrument in it operativity period.

Primary author

Dino Mesa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Presentation materials