MAORY
Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Relay for the E-ELT
MAORY is the multi-conjugate adaptive optics module of the European Extremely Large Telescope. It is designed to compensate the atmospheric turbulence effects for the imaging camera MICADO and for other instruments as the infrared spectrograph SIMPLE. MAORY works in the wavelength range 0.8 - 2.4µm and provides a corrected image field corresponding to 120 arcsec on sky.
Welcome
to the MAORY web site
The current design of MAORY is the result of a Phase-A study carried out in the framework of the E-ELT instrumentation studies sponsored by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
The study was funded by ESO and by the European Community through the Framework Programme 7 (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURE-2007-1 Grant Agreement N. 211257).
The Phase-A study, led by INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna in collaboration with Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Astronomia, involved Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA) and the INAF institutes Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica Bologna, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. ESO was also involved in the study, supporting the most critical technological developments (deformable mirrors, detectors, etc.). A complete list of the people and institutes involved in the project is available here
In these pages you can find general information on the module, a description of the latest available performance estimates and a list of relevant documents.
Last Modified 09/03/2011 Editor of these pages Paolo Ciliegi
