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Table 1

Telescope and system model parameters used in the benchmark scenario.

Quantity Value Reference
METIS/ELT properties

Planet filter P M’
Moon filter M N2
Diameter (m) 37 C20
System throughput (–) 0.36 C20
Atmospheric transmission (–) 0.8 J13, N12
σPSF in P (mas) 12.0
σPSF in M (mas) 28.1

Model system properties

Reference distance (pc) 3.6481 P16, V23
Planet mass (MJup) 3.25 F19
Age (Gyr) >3.0 F19

References. C20: Carlomagno et al. (2020); J13: Jones et al. (2013); N12: Noll et al. (2012); P16: Prusti et al. (2016); V23: Vallenari et al. (2023); F19: Feng et al. (2019). Brandl et al. (2021) give an overview of the METIS optical system and pixel sizes.

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