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1 E UROPEAN E XTREMELY L ARGE T ELESCOPE Aprajita Verma University of Oxford With thanks to UK E-ELT Project Team & E-ELT Team at ESO

2 E-ELTVLT The World's Largest Eye on the Sky! A 39m diameter, adaptive telescope 0.3-14 µm, 10’ diff limited FoV Approved Dec 2012 Funded for phase 1 Dec 2014 First light 2024 (est) Total Cost: € 1082 million (2012) Top priority for European ground-based astronomy

3 T ELESCOPE M IRROR S IZE P ROGRESSION 2 M AND MORE

4 E-ELT 39m Larger collecting area than all major observatories put together!

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6 O THER I NTERNATIONAL ELT S Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMT) top priority: NSF investment

7 ELT PRIMARY MIRRORS E-ELT 39m (2024) E-ELT 39m (2024) TMT 30m (2022) TMT 30m (2022) JWST 6.5m (2018) GMT 24m (2020, 4seg 2023, 7seg) VLT 8m HST 2.4m Collecting area = sensitivity Diameter = resolution (with AO)

8 Oct 2011: ESO & Chilean agreement including donation of 189 km 2 of land & further 362 km 2 50yr protected area in return 10% observing time Armazones Paranal Vn. Llullaillaco

9 S ITE

10 E-ELT F IRST G ENERATION I NSTRUMENTS

11 E-ELT INSTRUMENTATION 8 instruments and 2 adaptive optics modules are foreseen for the E- ELT Collaborations with institutes in ESO community Two selected for first light One of which HARMONI lead by Oxford Full instrument suite to be built up over first decade 8 instruments and 2 adaptive optics modules are foreseen for the E- ELT Collaborations with institutes in ESO community Two selected for first light One of which HARMONI lead by Oxford Full instrument suite to be built up over first decade

12 P HASE A I NSTRUMENT S TUDIES CODEXUltra-high-resolution optical spectrograph Luca Pasquini (ESO) (UK: Martin Haehnelt, Cambridge) EAGLEMulti-IFU, AO-fed near-IR spectrometer Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) EPICSXAO imager/spectro-polarimeter for exo-planets Markus Kasper (ESO) (UK: Matthias Tecza, Oxford) HARMONIDiffraction-limited, visible-NIR IFU Niranjan Thatte (Univ Oxford) METISMid-IR (3-14µm) imager & spectrometer Bernhard Brandl (NOVA, Leiden) (UK: Alistair Glass, ATC) MICADONear-IR, high-resolution imaging camera Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) OPTIMOSSeeing-limited/GLAO high-multiplex spectrograph Olivier Le Fevre (LAM), Francois Hammer (GEPI), Gavin Dalton (Univ Oxford) SIMPLENear-IR, high-resolution spectrograph Livia Origlia (INAF, Bologna) (UK: Roberto Maiolino, Cambridge) AO-relaysMAORY (MCAO relay) & ATLAS (LTAO relay) CODEXUltra-high-resolution optical spectrograph Luca Pasquini (ESO) (UK: Martin Haehnelt, Cambridge) EAGLEMulti-IFU, AO-fed near-IR spectrometer Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) EPICSXAO imager/spectro-polarimeter for exo-planets Markus Kasper (ESO) (UK: Matthias Tecza, Oxford) HARMONIDiffraction-limited, visible-NIR IFU Niranjan Thatte (Univ Oxford) METISMid-IR (3-14µm) imager & spectrometer Bernhard Brandl (NOVA, Leiden) (UK: Alistair Glass, ATC) MICADONear-IR, high-resolution imaging camera Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) OPTIMOSSeeing-limited/GLAO high-multiplex spectrograph Olivier Le Fevre (LAM), Francois Hammer (GEPI), Gavin Dalton (Univ Oxford) SIMPLENear-IR, high-resolution spectrograph Livia Origlia (INAF, Bologna) (UK: Roberto Maiolino, Cambridge) AO-relaysMAORY (MCAO relay) & ATLAS (LTAO relay) ✪ ELT-IFU ✪ ELT-CAM ✪ ELT-MIR ✪ ELT-PCS

13 P HASE A I NSTRUMENT S TUDIES CODEXUltra-high-resolution optical spectrograph Luca Pasquini (ESO) (UK: Martin Haehnelt, Cambridge) EAGLEMulti-IFU, AO-fed near-IR spectrometer Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) EPICSXAO imager/spectro-polarimeter for exo-planets Markus Kasper (ESO) (UK: Matthias Tecza, Oxford) HARMONIDiffraction-limited, visible-NIR IFU Niranjan Thatte (Univ Oxford) METISMid-IR (3-14µm) imager & spectrometer Bernhard Brandl (NOVA, Leiden) (UK: Alistair Glass, ATC) MICADONear-IR, high-resolution imaging camera Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) OPTIMOSSeeing-limited/GLAO high-multiplex spectrograph Olivier Le Fevre (LAM), Francois Hammer (GEPI), Gavin Dalton (Univ Oxford) SIMPLENear-IR, high-resolution spectrograph Livia Origlia (INAF, Bologna) (UK: Roberto Maiolino, Cambridge) AO-relaysMAORY (MCAO relay) & ATLAS (LTAO relay) CODEXUltra-high-resolution optical spectrograph Luca Pasquini (ESO) (UK: Martin Haehnelt, Cambridge) EAGLEMulti-IFU, AO-fed near-IR spectrometer Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM), Simon Morris (Univ Durham) EPICSXAO imager/spectro-polarimeter for exo-planets Markus Kasper (ESO) (UK: Matthias Tecza, Oxford) HARMONIDiffraction-limited, visible-NIR IFU Niranjan Thatte (Univ Oxford) METISMid-IR (3-14µm) imager & spectrometer Bernhard Brandl (NOVA, Leiden) (UK: Alistair Glass, ATC) MICADONear-IR, high-resolution imaging camera Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) OPTIMOSSeeing-limited/GLAO high-multiplex spectrograph Olivier Le Fevre (LAM), Francois Hammer (GEPI), Gavin Dalton (Univ Oxford) SIMPLENear-IR, high-resolution spectrograph Livia Origlia (INAF, Bologna) (UK: Roberto Maiolino, Cambridge) AO-relaysMAORY (MCAO relay) & ATLAS (LTAO relay) ✪ MOSAIC ✪ HIRES

14 A NTICIPATED S CHEDULE Start 2013 Technical First Light2023 First Instrument 2024 Operations2024 Start 2013 Technical First Light2023 First Instrument 2024 Operations2024

15 harmoni2015.physics.ox.a c.uk *T-Rex not to scale! It’s in the foreground!!!

16 S YNERGIES WITH MAJOR FACILITIES 16 Synergies across most areas of astronomy sensitivity sensitivity matching high angular resolutions: matching high angular resolutions: different wavelengths and spectral resolutions (e.g. ALMA) matching wavelengths: matching wavelengths: different angular and/or spectral resolutions (e.g. JWST) 8mas in H (JWST 64mas) 18mas in L (JWST 130mas) Spectroscopic and high angular resolution follow-up of sources discovered with current & future 4m-10m telescopes Opt/NIR telescopes (VLT, Keck, VISTA, PANSTARRS, LSST), HST, Herschel, LOFAR, GAIA, JWST, EUCLID… IXO Science Case, K. Nandra

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