MAORY  : PEOPLE AND INSTITUTES

 
The Phase-A study involved the following institutes: INAF - osservatorio astronomico di bologna (OABO) OFFICE NATIONAL d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA) Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Astronomia (UniBo) iNAF - OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA (OAPD) INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica Bologna (IASFBo) INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA) European Southern Observatory (ESO) The core project team members and their main responsibilities are: E. Diolaiti (OABo) Principal investigator, opto-mechanics J.-M. Conan (ONERA) Co-investigator adaptive optics I. Foppiani (UniBo & OABo) - System engineER r. c. Butler (IASFBo) Project manager (since Preparatory Phase after Phase-A study) M. Bellazzini (OABo) Science team (stellar populations, extra-galactic astrophysics) P. Ciliegi (OABo) Science team (extra-galactic astrophysics, cosmology) E. Marchetti (ESO) Phase-A study supervisor at ESO A. Baruffolo (OAPd) Control software G. Bregoli (OABo) Software G. Cosentino (UniBo) Electronics, thermal control M. Lombini (OABo & UniBo) LGS WFS prototype, optics C. Petit (ONERA) Adaptive optics control system, simulations C. Robert (ONERA) System analysis, simulations L. Schreiber (UniBo) Wavefront sensing, simulations Contributions during the Phase-A study came from: V. Biliotti (OAA), S. D'Odorico (ESO), B. Delabre (ESO), T. Fusco (ONERA), N. Hubin (ESO), S. Meimon (ONERA) and others. The conceptual mechanical design of the MCAO module was realized by ToMELLERI S.R.L. http://www.bo.astro.it/http://www.onera.fr/http://www.astronomia.unibo.it/Astronomia/http://www.astronomia.unibo.it/Astronomia/http://www.pd.astro.it/http://www.iasfbo.inaf.it/http://www.arcetri.astro.it/http://www.eso.org/http://www.tomelleri.com/shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8