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Simulations of 3D observations of exoplanets using OWL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2006

Alessandro Berton ,
Markus Feldt ,
Raffaele G. Gratton  and
Thomas Henning
Alessandro Berton
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany email: berton@mpia.de, feldt@mpia.de, henning@mpia.de
Markus Feldt
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany email: berton@mpia.de, feldt@mpia.de, henning@mpia.de
Raffaele G. Gratton
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova INAF, Vic. Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy email: gratton@pd.astro.it
Thomas Henning
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany email: berton@mpia.de, feldt@mpia.de, henning@mpia.de
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Abstract

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A software for simulations of observations with an Integral Field Spectrograph attached to an extreme adaptive optics system is presented here. This code, written in IDL, has been conceived within the CHEOPS project, a second generation “Planet Finder” instrument for ESO's VLT, and it has been successfully extended to the case of various ELTs in order to test the capabilities in detecting planets of an instrument based on Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS). We present here, beside a general description of the procedure adopted to simulate IFS observations, a set of significant simulations of detections using OWL for different kinds of planets, in order to understand which objects are the best targets for an IFS-Planet Finder mounted on a 100m-class telescope.

Keywords

instrumentation: spectrographs — techniques: high angular resolution — planetary systems — telescopes
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Symposium S232: Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes , November 2005 , pp. 339 - 343
Copyright
2006 International Astronomical Union