Speaker
Description
HARMONI is the first-light near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) planned for the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
I will present the planned capabilities of this uniquely powerful instrument, which will offer a near ten-fold improvement in both the angular and spectral resolution currently provided by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at near-infrared wavelengths. I will also update the community on current progress in the design/build of this, the first key UK-led instrument for the ELT. Finally, I will discuss some example science cases to highlight the dramatic advances that should be enabled by HARMONI given the near diffraction-limited resolution anticipated from the ELT Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system, MORFEO.
