ESO DOI Service

• Davies, Richard [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany]
• Hörmann, Veronika [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany]
• Rabien, Sebastian [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany]
• Sturm, Eckhard [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany]
• Alves, João [University of Vienna, Austria]
• Clénet, Yann [LESIA, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Observatoire de Paris, France]
• Kotilainen, Jari [FINCA, University of Turku, Finland]
• Lang-Bardl, Florian [Universitäts-Sternwarte, Munich, Germany]
• Nicklas, Harald [Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany]
• Pott, Jörg-Uwe [Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany]
• Tolstoy, Eline [Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands]
• Vulcani, Benedetta [INAF – Osservatorio di Padova, Italy]
• The MICADO Consortium

The Multi-adaptive optics Imaging CamerA for Deep Observations (MICADO) will image a field of view of nearly 1 arcminute at the diffraction limit of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), making use of the adaptive optics correction provided by single-conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO) and multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO). Its simple and robust design will yield an unprecedented combination of sensitivity and resolution across the field. This article outlines the characteristics of the observing modes offered and illustrates each of them with an astrophysical application. Potential users can explore their own ideas using the data simulator ScopeSim.