MAORY/MORFEO@ELT: general overview up to the preliminary design and a look towards the final design
P. Ciliegi, Guido Agapito, Matteo Aliverti, F. Annibali, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Nicolò Azzaroli, A. Balestra, Ivano Baronchelli, Andrea Baruffolo, Maria Bergomi, Andrea Bianco, Marco Bonaglia, Runa Briguglio, Lorenzo Busoni, Michele Cantiello, Giulio Capasso, Giulia Carlà, Elena Carolo, E. Cascone, Simonetta Chinellato, Vincenzo Cianniello, Mirko Colapietro, Jean-Jacques Correia, Giuseppe Cosentino, Domenico D'Auria, Vincenzo De Caprio, Nicholas Devaney, Ivan Di Antonio, Amico Di Cianno, Andrea Di Dato, Ugo Di Giammatteo, Gianluca Di Rico, M. Dolci, Christian Eredia, Simone Esposito, D. Fantinel, Jacopo Farinato, Philippe Feautrier, Italo Foppiani, Matteo Genoni, E. Giro, L. Glück, Alexander F. Goncharov, Paolo Grani, Davide Greggio, Sylvain Guieu, Marco Gullieuszik, Pierre Haguenauer, Z. Hubert, Tommaso Lapucci, Fulvio Laudisio, Miska Le Louarn, Demetrio Magrin, Deborah Malone, Luca Marafatto, Matteo Munari, Sylvain Oberti, Giorgio Pariani, Lorenzo Pettazzi, Cédric Plantet, Elisa Portaluri, Alfio Puglisi, Patrick Rabou, Roberto Ragazzoni, Edoardo Maria Alberto Redaelli, Marco Riva, S. Rochat, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Bernardo Salasnich, Salvatore Savarese, Marcello Agostino Scalera, Pietro Schipani, R. Sordo, Marie-Hélène Sztefek, Angelo Valentini, Marco Xompero
Abstract
MORFEO (formerly known as MAORY) is a post-focal adaptive optics module that forms part of the first light instrument suite for the Extreme Large Telescope (ELT). The project passed the Preliminary Design Review in two stages in April and July 2021 and is now entering the Final Design Phase. In this paper we report the status of the project.