Abstract

A software for simulations of observations with an Integral Field Spectrograph attached to an extreme adaptive optics system is presented here. This code, written in IDL, has been conceived within the CHEOPS project, a second generation “Planet Finder” instrument for ESO's VLT, and it has been successfully extended to the case of various ELTs in order to test the capabilities in detecting planets of an instrument based on Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS). We present here, beside a general description of the procedure adopted to simulate IFS observations, a set of significant simulations of detections using OWL for different kinds of planets, in order to understand which objects are the best targets for an IFS-Planet Finder mounted on a 100m-class telescope.

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