My group is involved in two instrumentation projects that presented updates at the recent SPIE conference:

• the ANDES spectrograph for the ELT, where we at the AIP are responsible for the design and the construction of its UBV arm;
• and ARCUS, a concept for a high spectral resolution X-ray space telescope, where I am involved in the exoplanet science goals.

The SPIE proceedings for both projects can be found here:

Marconi et al., “ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science case, baseline design and path to construction”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12184, id. 1218424 16 pp. (2022). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022SPIE12184E..24M/abstract

Smith et al., “Arcus: exploring the formation and evolution of clusters, galaxies, and stars”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12181, id. 1218121 10 pp. (2022). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022SPIE12181E..21S/abstract