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"HARMONI: a visible & near-infrared integral field spectrograph for the European 
Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)"

Prof. Niranjan Thatte, 
Astrophysics, Univ. of Oxford, UK
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When: Monday, 17th of May of 2010 at 4:00 pm
Where: 2nd Floor Seminar Room

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Abstract:
  
HARMONI is designed to be a work-horse instrument that will
provide spectroscopic capabilities in the early years of the E-ELT. It
will provide spectral resolutions ranging from 4000 to 20000 over a wide
wavelength range (V to K band) covering a 256 x 128 spaxel FoV. I will
introduce the E-ELT project, emphasing the massive leap it represents. I
will then describe the key science drivers for HARMONI, a summary of its
specifications and expected performance, as well as some simulation
results and detail the instrument concept, as studied in Phase A.
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