Publications

Overview papers

• Filho, Mercedes, et al.: Challenges to the assembly and integration of the WSS with METIS, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy X (2022)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: Status of the mid-infrared E-ELT imager and spectrograph METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018) [PDF]
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: Status of the mid-infrared E-ELT imager and spectrograph METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: METIS: the mid-infrared E-ELT imager and spectrograph, SPIE proceedings (2014)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: METIS: the thermal infrared instrument for the E-ELT, Proceedings of the SPIE (2012)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: METIS: A Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph, The Messenger (2010)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: METIS: the Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph, Proceedings of the SPIE (2008)
• Kendrew, Sarah, et al.: Mid-infrared instrumentation for the European Extremely Large Telescope, Proceedings of the SPIE (2007)

Science

• Hayoz, Jean, et al.: CROCODILE. Incorporating medium-resolution spectroscopy of close-in directly imaged exoplanets into atmospheric retrievals via cross-correlation, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2023)
• Plummer, Michael K., et al.: Mapping the Skies of Ultracool Worlds: Detecting Storms and Spots with Extremely Large Telescopes, The Astrophysical Journal (2023)
• Quanz, Sascha P.: Towards the direct detection of exoplanets at mid-infrared wavelengths, EAS2022, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (2022)
• Burtscher, Leo: Resolving the dust structures in AGNs using thermal-infrared Interferometry, Ground-Based Thermal Infrared Astronomy – Past, Present and Future (2020)
• Petit Dit De La Roche, Dominique, et al.: Planets in a different light: the potential of direct imaging in the mid-infrared, Ground-Based Thermal Infrared Astronomy – Past, Present and Future (2020)
• Meyer, Michael R.: Thermal IR ELT Opportunity: Finding and Characterizing Other Worlds in the alpha Cen System with METIS, The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2019 (2019)
• Quanz, Sascha P., et al: Direct detection of exoplanets in the 3-10 μm range with E-ELT/METIS, International Journal of Astrobiology (2015)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: Instrument concept and science case for the mid-IR E-ELT imager and spectrograph, METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2010)
• Hippler, Stefan, et al.: Characterization of Exoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the proposed E-ELT Instrument METIS, Exoplanets and disks: their formation and diversity, AIP Conference Proceedings (2009)

High-contrast imaging

• Absil, Olivier, et al.: Expected performance and scientific potential of the METIS high-contrast imaging modes, Planetary formation and Exoplanets in the ELT era (Exo-ELT) (2026)
• Boné, André, et al.: Simulating the effect of chromatic beam wander on the ELT/METIS high-contrast imaging performance, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (2026)
• Kenworthy, Matthew, et al.: The VLT/ERIS grating vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph: Design and on-sky performance, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2026)
• Sanghi, Aniket, et al.: Worlds Next Door. III. Indirect Evidence for Enhanced Atmospheric Metallicity and/or the Presence of Water Clouds in the Nearest Jupiter-analog ϵ Eri b, The Astronomical Journal (2026)
• Takami, Michihiro, et al.: ELT-METIS Imaging Simulations for Disks and Envelopes Associated with FU Ori-type Objects, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2025)
• Absil, Olivier, et al.: METIS high-contrast imaging: from final design to manufacturing and testing, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Bettonvil, Felix, et al.: Management of the METIS project, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI (2024)
• Bizenberger, Peter, et al.: METIS: the imager: from design to verification, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Brandl, Bernhard: Status, Observing Modes, and expected Performance of the Mid-Infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph METIS, EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (2024)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: Final design and status of the Mid-IR ELT Imager and Spectrograph, METIS, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Cárdenas Vázquez, M. Concepción, et al.: The METIS imager: final opto-mechanics design and manufacturing, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Delacroix, Christian, et al.: The ELT/METIS annular groove phase masks, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI (2024)
• Kumar, Vipin, et al.: Final optical design of relay optics and alignment optics of the Warm Calibration Unit in METIS/ELT: analysis, performances, and the procurement of the optics, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• König, Lorenzo, et al.: Design, manufacturing, and prototype testing of the METIS ring apodizer, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI (2024)
• Zhang, Huihao, et al.: Detecting Biosignatures in Nearby Rocky Exoplanets Using High-contrast Imaging and Medium-resolution Spectroscopy with the Extremely Large Telescope, The Astronomical Journal (2024)
• Bizenberger, Peter, et al.: METIS: final design of the imager sub-system, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (2022)
• Delacroix, Christian, et al.: The High-contrast End-to-End Performance Simulator (HEEPS): influence of ELT/METIS instrumental effects, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy X (2022)
• Le Coroller, H., et al.: Efficiently combining α CenA multi-epoch high-contrast imaging data. Application of K-Stacker to the 80 hours NEAR campaign, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2022)
• Lewińska-Maresca, Mirka, et al.: Development and verification of the largest cryogenic mid IR aluminium concave mirror for METIS showing excellent wavefront performance, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (2022)
• Sharma, T., et al.: Optical design, analysis, and performances of the infrared and visible channels of the warm calibration unit in METIS/ELT, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (2022)
• Shinde, Muskan, et al.: Modeling the vortex center glow in the ELT/METIS vortex coronagraph, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy X (2022)
• Zaalberg, Daan, et al.: Development of an aluminium mirror with a novel integrated flexure-based mount for METIS cryogenic environment, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (2022)
• Maire, A.-L., et al.: Submilliarcsecond astrometry of exoplanets and brown dwarfs in high-contrast imaging, SF2A-2021: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2021)
• Muslimov, Eduard, et al.: Straylight analyses and mitigation strategies for the ELT METIS instrument, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series (2021)
• Boné, André, et al.: The Talbot effect's impact on the high contrast imaging modes of METIS, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV (2020)
• Ronayette, Samuel, et al.: An N-band test bench for the METIS coronagraphic masks, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (2020)
• Kenworthy, Matthew A., et al.: A review of high contrast imaging modes for METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Carlomagno, Brunella, et al.: End-to-end simulations of the E-ELT/METIS coronagraphs, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)
• Kenworthy, Matthew A., et al.: High-contrast imaging with METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)

Instrument Simulator, Performance estimates, calibration, operations, data reduction

• Chen, Xueqing, et al.: Mapping atmospheric structures with Doppler imaging in the era of ELT, Planetary formation and Exoplanets in the ELT era (Exo-ELT) (2026)
• Maio, Francesco, et al.: Probing the atmospheric dynamics, clouds and chemistry of brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanets, Planetary formation and Exoplanets in the ELT era (Exo-ELT) (2026)
• Buddelmeijer, Hugo, et al.: A data model to connect the ESO Data Processing System (EDPS) to ELT data archives, arXiv e-prints (2025)
• Baláž, Martin, et al.: Data reduction pipeline for the METIS integral field spectrograph, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024)
• Burtscher, Leonard, et al.: ELT/METIS and the AGN torus, IR2022: An Infrared Bright Future for Ground-based IR Observatories in the Era of JWST (2022)
• Chen, Xueqing, et al.: Observability of forming planets and their circumplanetary discs – IV. With JWST and ELT, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2022)
• Meyer, Michael R.: Gas Giants & BDs with VLT to Super-Earths with METIS on the ELT, Disks and Planets across ESO Facilities (2022)
• Petit Dit De La Roche, D. J. M., et al.: New mid-infrared imaging constraints on companions and protoplanetary disks around six young stars, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2021)
• Boné, André, et al.: A mass optimized support and access structure for ESO's Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (2020)
• Burtscher, Leonard, et al.: Towards a physical understanding of the thermal background in large ground-based telescopes, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (2020)
• Chauvin, Gael, et al.: Planetary systems at the Era of the ELT, Planets 2020, Ground and Space Observatories: a Joint Venture to Planetary Science (2020)
• Leschinski, Kieran, et al.: ScopeSim: a flexible general purpose astronomical instrument data simulation framework in Python, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI (2020)
• Turchi, Alessio, et al.: High-accuracy short-term precipitable water-vapour operational forecast at the Very Large Telescope and perspectives for sky background forecast, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2020)
• Linder, Esther F., et al.: Evolutionary models of cold and low-mass planets: cooling curves, magnitudes, and detectability, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2019)
• Baccichet, Nicola, et al.: The calibration unit of the mid-infrared E-ELT instrument METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Straubmeier, Christian, et al.: The warm calibration unit of METIS: optical design and principle of operation, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Mach, Michael, et al.: Data reduction software for the Mid-Infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)
• Heikamp, Stephanie, et al.: Drift scanning technique for mid-infrared background subtraction, Proceedings of the SPIE (2014)
• Schmalzl, E.: An end-to-end instrument model for the proposed E-ELT instrument METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2012)
• Kendrew, Sarah, et al.: Mid-infrared astronomy with the E-ELT: performance of METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2010)
• Uttenthaler, Stefan, et al.: Correcting METIS spectra for telluric absorption to maximize spectral fidelity, Proceedings of the SPIE (2010)
• Kendrew, Sarah, et al.: Atmospheric refractivity effects on mid-infrared ELT adaptive optics, Proceedings of the SPIE (2008)

Adaptive Optics System

• Cardenas Vazquez, M. Concepcion, et al.: METIS instrument: status of the IMAGER, the SCAO and MITESI, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics XII (2025)
• Bertram, Thomas, et al.: How to make METIS SCAO work, Adaptive Optics Systems IX (2024)
• Coppejans, Hugo, et al.: METIS RTC as a computationally heavy system, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024)
• Feldt, Markus, et al.: High strehl and high contrast for the ELT instrument METIS: Final design, implementation, and predicted performance of the single-conjugate adaptive optics system, Experimental Astronomy (2024)
• Gaessler, Wolfgang Gäessler, et al.: ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT: extending to the K-band, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Kulas, Martin, et al.: METIS AOCS at the beginning of MAIT, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024)
• Leschinski, Kieran, et al.: Implementation plans for the data reduction pipeline for METIS at the ELT, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024)
• Mortimer, Daniel, et al.: Building an ELT simulator in the lab for subsystem testing of METIS/SCAO, Adaptive Optics Systems IX (2024)
• Mortimer, Daniel, et al.: Building a mini Extremely Large Telescope simulator, EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (2024)
• Orban De Xivry, Gilles, et al.: ALF: an asymmetric Lyot wavefront sensor for the ELT/METIS vortex coronagraph, Adaptive Optics Systems IX (2024)
• Parker, Luke T., et al.: Into the red: an M-band study of the chemistry and rotation of β Pictoris b at high spectral resolution, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024)
• Pessemier, Wim, et al.: The METIS instrument control system, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024)
• Serra, Benoît, et al.: METIS first light imager and spectrograph for the ELT: overview of the near and mid-infrared detector subsystems, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy XI (2024)
• Steuer, Horst, et al.: Evolving the METIS soft real-time control system out of the simulation environment, Adaptive Optics Systems IX (2024)
• Wang, Shiang-Yu, et al.: The design and performance of the wheel systems in the common foreoptics of the ELT METIS, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Bertram, Thomas, et al.: METIS SCAO ─ implementing AO for ELT, Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes (AO4ELT7) (2023)
• Cardenas Vazquez, Concepcion: An ELT Telescope Simulator: putting together a puzzle, EAS2023, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (2023)
• Feldt, Markus, et al.: Simulating METIS SCAO System, arXiv e-prints (2023)
• Kulas, Martin, et al.: The Rtc for Metis Scao, Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes (AO4ELT7) (2023)
• Absil, Olivier, et al.: Impact of water vapor seeing on mid-infrared high-contrast imaging at ELT scale, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII (2022)
• Brandl, Bernhard R., et al.: Status update on the development of METIS, the mid-infrared ELT imager and spectrograph, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (2022)
• Correia, Carlos M., et al.: ELT METIS wavefront control strategy, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII (2022)
• Costa, Ricardo, et al.: The METIS warm support structure final design, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (2022)
• Neureuther, Philip L., et al.: Control oriented strategy to consider constraints of the deformable mirror M4 for the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (2022)
• Sabha, Nadeen B., et al.: The spectroscopic pipeline design for the ELT METIS, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII (2022)
• Bowens, Rory, et al.: Exoplanets with ELT-METIS. I. Estimating the direct imaging exoplanet yield around stars within 6.5 parsecs, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2021)
• Brandl, Bernhard, et al.: METIS: The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph, The Messenger (2021)
• Maire, A.-L., et al.: High-precision Astrometric Studies in Direct Imaging with SPHERE, The Messenger (2021)
• Brandl, Bernhard: Challenges for mid-IR Instruments on ELTs, Ground-Based Thermal Infrared Astronomy – Past, Present and Future (2020)
• Carlomagno, Brunella, et al.: METIS high-contrast imaging: design and expected performance, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (2020)
• Neureuther, Philip L., et al.: An advanced SCAO control concept based on mechanical mirror modes for METIS, Adaptive Optics Systems VII (2020)
• Pogorelyuk, Leonid, et al.: Incorporating adaptive optics controls history in post-processing of ground-based coronagraph models, Adaptive Optics Systems VII (2020)
• Ramsay, Suzanne, et al.: The ESO Extremely Large Telescope instrumentation programme, Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation 2019 (2020)
• Cantalloube, Faustine, et al.: High contrast imaging with ELT/METIS: The wind driven halo, from SPHERE to METIS, arXiv e-prints (2019)
• Hippler, Stefan: Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, Volume 8, Issue 2, id. 1950001-322 (2019)
• Hippler, Stefan et al.: Single conjugate adaptive optics for the ELT instrument METIS, Experimental Astronomy, Volume 47, Issue 1-2, pp. 65-105 (2019)
• Hutterer, Victoria, et al.: Real-time adaptive optics with pyramid wavefront sensors: part II. Accurate wavefront reconstruction using iterative methods, Inverse Problems (2019)
• Bertram, Thomas, et al.: Single conjugate adaptive optics for METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Kulas, Martin, et al.: METIS AO RTC concept, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Feldt, Markus, et al.: Sensing wavefronts on resolved sources with pyramids on ELTs, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)
• Stuik, Remko, et al.: Designing the METIS SCAO and LTAO systems, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)
• Stuik, Remko, et al.: Designing the METIS adaptive optics system, Proceedings of the SPIE (2012)

Optics

• Agócs, Tibor, et al.: End to end optical design and wavefront error simulation of METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Agócs, Tibor, et al.: Preliminary optical design for the common fore optics of METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)

Components

• Bezawada, Naidu, et al.: Evaluating detector technologies for astronomy beyond 2030, VLT Beyond 2030 (2026)
• Marleau, Gabriel-Dominique, et al.: Detectability of resolved hydrogen lines from the accretion shock at gas giants and their CPDs, arXiv e-prints (2025)
• Amorim, António, et al.: Challenges to the manufacturing of the warm support structure for the METIS instrument at the ESO/ELT telescope, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Barrière, Jean-Christophe, et al.: Design and performances of the ELT-METIS cryogenic derotator drive, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI (2024)
• Bouzerand, Emilie, et al.: The as-manufactured design of the cryostat for ELT/METIS, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X (2024)
• Bowens, Rory, et al.: Characterization of a Longwave HgCdTe GeoSnap Detector, arXiv e-prints (2024)
• Dallilar, Yigit, et al.: Progress of the Warm Calibration Unit (WCU) subsystem of METIS towards the full subsystem integration: an overview of the post-FDR status, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Dijkstra, Elfi, et al.: Manufacturing requirements and challenges of the fully integrated aluminium tip-tilt chopper mirror for the METIS instrument, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI (2024)
• Filho, Mercedes, et al.: Overcoming obstacles to the assembly, integration, and testing of the WSS/METIS, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI (2024)
• Salman, Muhammad, et al.: METIS cryostat and vacuum control, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024)
• Bezawada, Naidu, et al.: Infrared detectors for first generation extremely large telescope instruments and their characterization program, Astronomische Nachrichten (2023)
• Oberg, N., et al.: Observing circumplanetary disks with METIS, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2023)
• Amorim, António, et al.: A mass and vibration optimised solution for 6D precision heavy instrument alignment and its application to METIS, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation (2022)
• Bouzerand, Emilie, et al.: The final design of the cryostat for ELT/METIS, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (2022)
• Rutowska, Monika, et al.: Warm calibration unit of the mid-infrared ELT instrument METIS: overview and current status towards FDR, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX (2022)
• Boné, André, et al.: Methods for the development of an alignment platform for an astronomical instrument with application to the METIS instrument at the ELT, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (2021)
• Agócs, Tibor, et al.: Ge immersed grating manufacturing and optical verification for the METIS high-resolution spectrograph, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV (2020)
• Bezawada, Naidu, et al.: Performance advantages of buffered mode operation of HxRG near infrared detectors, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX (2020)
• Bouzerand, Emilie, et al.: The design of the cryostat for ELT/METIS, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (2020)
• Corpace, Olivier, et al.: A cryogenic actuator for the image derotator on ELT-METIS, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV (2020)
• Filho, Mercedes, et al.: Challenges to the assembly and integration of the WSS with METIS, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IX (2020)
• George, Elizabeth M., et al.: Detector systems engineering for extremely large instruments, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX (2020)
• Graf, Sabine, et al.: The warm calibration unit of METIS: laboratory tests and proof-of-concept, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (2020)
• Rutowska, Monika, et al.: Warm calibration unit of the mid-infrared E-ELT instrument METIS: overview and current status of the project, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII (2020)
• Boné, André, et al.: Development of an alignment platform for ESO's mid-infrared E-ELT imager and spectrograph (METIS), Proceedings of the SPIE (2018)
• Agócs, Tibor, et al.: Optical tests of the Si immersed grating demonstrator for METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2016)
• Agócs, Tibor et al.: A set of innovative immersed grating based spectrometer designs for METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2014)
• Paalvast, Sander L., et al.: Development and characterization of a 2D precision cryogenic chopper for METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2014)
• Paalvast, Sander L., et al.: Development of a 2D precision cryogenic chopper for METIS, Proceedings of the SPIE (2012)

Other METIS publications

• Huang, Yu Chieh, et al.: AIT support equipment design for METIS, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2024)
• Wijnen, Thomas, et al.: NOVA MAX: manufacturing and assembly facility for ELT-era instrumentation, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI (2024)
• Coppejans, Hugo, et al.: Subpixel pupil tracking on METIS for ELT, Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes (AO4ELT7) (2023)
• Sabha, Nadeen B.: VLT/VISIR Mapping of the Galactic Centre: The Central Stellar Cluster, Black-hole activity feedback from Bondi-radius to galaxy-cluster scales (2022)
• Glauser, Adrian M., et al.: A collaborative systems engineering approach for large instrument consortia, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IX (2020)

Publication list updated automatically from NASA ADS on 2026-07-03 · 146 entries.