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EAGLE consortium:

Laboratoire Astrophysique de Marseille
Observatoire de Paris - LESIA
Observatoire de Paris - GEPI
ONERA - France
UK - Astronomy Technology Center
Durham Center for Advanced Instrumenation

Welcome!

This site presents the EAGLE instrument (Extremely Large Telescope Adaptive optics for GaLaxy Evolution instrument). EAGLE is one of the instruments under Phase A study for the E-ELT. The phase A review will be completed in the fall of 2009. The decision to proceed to the detailed and final design phases, and then to the construction phase, will be taken by the European Southern Observatory and its astronomers' community later in 2010.

The information available on this site provides general information on the instrument as currently designed and its science case. This is also presented in: Cuby et al., "EAGLE: an MOAO fed multi-IFU working in the NIR on the E-ELT", Astronomical Adaptive Optics Systems and Applications IV Proc. SPIE 7439B, 7439B-18 (2009), [ARTICLE PDF (4.8 MB)] and [PRESENTATION PDF (6.2 MB)](a) .

EAGLE Introduction Movie


Movie is available in two formats: (MOV 345MB) (WMV 142MB)

The EAGLE consortium for the Phase A study consists of the following institutes:

  • LAM. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France. LAM is part of Observatoire Astronomique Marseille-Provence (OAMP) (France) and is partly funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université de Provence.
  • LESIA. Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique. LESIA is part of Observatoire de Paris (OPM) and is partly funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris 6 and Université Paris 7.
  • GEPI. Laboratoire d'Etudes des Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique & Instrumentation, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France. GEPI is part of Observatoire de Paris (OPM) and is partly funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Paris 7.
  • ONERA. Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Chatillon, France
  • UK ATC. United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Center, Edinburgh, UK. UK ATC is funded by The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
  • University of Durham. Durham, UK

Acknowledgments

The EAGLE phase A is partially supported by STFC and University Durhma in the UK and by CNRS/INSU and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-06-BLAN-0191) in France, as well as by ESO and the European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
(a): Copyright 2009 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. 
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