Related papers: The ESO Spectroscopic facility

Preliminary results on the characterization and performances of ZBLAN fiber for infrared spectrographs

Present telescopes and future extremely large telescopes make use of fiber-fed spectrographs to observe at optical and infrared wavelengths. The use of fibers largely simplifies the interfacing of the spectrograph to the telescope. At a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Iuzzolino , A. Tozzi , N. Sanna , L. Zangrilli , E. Oliva

Project overview and update on WEAVE: the next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope

We present an overview of and status report on the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). WEAVE principally targets optical ground-based follow up of upcoming ground-based (LOFAR) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gavin Dalton , Scott Trager , Don Carlos Abrams , Piercarlo Bonifacio , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri , Kevin Middleton , Chris Benn , Kevin Dee , Frederic Sayede , Ian Lewis , Johannes Pragt , Sergio Pico , Nic Walton , Juerg Rey , Carlos Allende Prieto , Jose Penate , Emilie Lhome , Tibor Agocs , Jose Alonso , David Terrett , Matthew Brock , James Gilbert , Andy Ridings , Isabelle Guinouard , Marc Verheijen , Ian Tosh , Kevin Rogers , Iain Steele , Remko Stuik , Neils Tromp , Attila Jasko , Jan Kragt , Dirk Lesman , Chris Mottram , Stuart Bates , Frank Gribbin , Luis Fernando Rodriguez , Jose Miguel Delgado , Carlos Martin , Diego Cano , Ramon Navarro , Mike Irwin , Jim Lewis , Eduardo Gonzales Solares , Neil O Mahony , Andrea Bianco , Christina Zurita , Rik ter Horst , Emilio Molinari , Marcello Lodi , Jose Guerra , Antonella Vallenari , Andrea Baruffolo

Concept and optical design of the cross-disperser module for CRIRES+

CRIRES, the ESO high resolution infrared spectrometer, is a unique instrument which allows astronomers to access a parameter space which up to now was largely uncharted. In its current setup, it consists of a single-order spectrograph…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Oliva , A. Tozzi , D. Ferruzzi , L. Origlia , A. Hatzes , R. Follert , T. Loewinger , N. Piskunov , U. Heiter , M. Lockhart , T. Marquart , E. Stempels , A. Reiners , G. Anglada-Escude , U. Seemann , R. J. Dorn , P. Bristow , D. Baade , B. Delabre , D. Gojak , J. Grunhut , B. Klein , M. Hilker , D. J. Ives , Y. Jung , H. U. Kaeufl , F. Kerber , J. L. Lizon , L. Pasquini , J. Paufique , E. Pozna , A. Smette , J. Smoker , E. Valenti

RISTRETTO: reflected-light exoplanet spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of the VLT

RISTRETTO is a visible high-resolution spectrograph fed by an extreme adaptive optics (AO) system, to be proposed as a visitor instrument on ESO VLT. The main science goal of RISTRETTO is to pioneer the detection and atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Christophe Lovis , Nicolas Blind , Bruno Chazelas , Muskan Shinde , Maddalena Bugatti , Nathanaël Restori , Isaac Dinis , Ludovic Genolet , Ian Hughes , Michaël Sordet , Robin Schnell , Samuel Rihs , Adrien Crausaz , Martin Turbet , Nicolas Billot , Thierry Fusco , Benoit Neichel , Jean-François Sauvage , Pablo Santos Diaz , Mathilde Houelle , Joshua Blackman , Audrey Lanotte , Jonas Kühn , Janis Hagelberg , Olivier Guyon , Patrice Martinez , Alain Spang , Christoph Mordasini , David Ehrenreich , Brice-Olivier Demory , Emeline Bolmont

A 12um ISOCAM Survey of the ESO-Sculptor Field: Data Reduction and Analysis

We present a detailed reduction of a mid-infrared 12um (LW10 filter) ISOCAM open time observation performed on the ESO-Sculptor Survey field (Arnouts et al. 1997). A complete catalogue of 142 sources (120 galaxies and 22 stars), detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nick Seymour , Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange , Valerie de Lapparent

Fast Extended Depth of Focus Meta-Optics for Varifocal Functionality

Extended depth of focus (EDOF) optics can enable lower complexity optical imaging systems when compared to active focusing solutions. With existing EDOF optics, however, it is difficult to achieve high resolution and high collection…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-01 James E. M. Whitehead , Alan Zhan , Shane Colburn , Luocheng Huang , Arka Majumdar

Strategies for spectroscopy on Extremely Large Telescope. III - Remapping switched fibre systems

We explore the use of remapping techniques to improve the efficiency of highly-multiplexed fibre systems for astronomical spectroscopy. This is particularly important for the implementation of Diverse Field Spectroscopy (DFS, described in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. L. Poppett , J. R. Allington-Smith , G. J. Murray

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial concept as well as the corresponding science cases. WST will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Vincenzo Mainieri , Richard I. Anderson , Jarle Brinchmann , Andrea Cimatti , Richard S. Ellis , Vanessa Hill , Jean-Paul Kneib , Anna F. McLeod , Cyrielle Opitom , Martin M. Roth , Paula Sanchez-Saez , Rodolfo Smiljanic , Eline Tolstoy , Roland Bacon , Sofia Randich , Angela Adamo , Francesca Annibali , Patricia Arevalo , Marc Audard , Stefania Barsanti , Giuseppina Battaglia , Amelia M. Bayo Aran , Francesco Belfiore , Michele Bellazzini , Emilio Bellini , Maria Teresa Beltran , Leda Berni , Simone Bianchi , Katia Biazzo , Sofia Bisero , Susanna Bisogni , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Stephane Blondin , Julia Bodensteiner , Henri M. J. Boffin , Rosaria Bonito , Giuseppe Bono , Nicolas F. Bouche , Dominic Bowman , Vittorio F. Braga , Angela Bragaglia , Marica Branchesi , Anna Brucalassi , Julia J. Bryant , Ian Bryson , Innocenza Busa , Stefano Camera , Carmelita Carbone , Giada Casali , Mark Casali , Viviana Casasola , Norberto Castro , Marcio Catelan , Lorenzo Cavallo , Cristina Chiappini , Maria-Rosa Cioni , Matthew Colless , Laura Colzi , Sofia Contarini , Warrick Couch , Filippo D'Ammando , William d'Assignies D. , Valentina D'Orazi , Ronaldo da Silva , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Francesco Damiani , Camilla Danielski , Annalisa De Cia , Roelof S. de Jong , Suhail Dhawan , Philippe Dierickx , Simon P. Driver , Ulyana Dupletsa , Stephanie Escoffier , Ana Escorza , Michele Fabrizio , Giuliana Fiorentino , Adriano Fontana , Francesco Fontani , Daniel Forero Sanchez , Patrick Franois , Francisco Jose Galindo-Guil , Anna Rita Gallazzi , Daniele Galli , Miriam Garcia , Jorge Garcia-Rojas , Bianca Garilli , Robert Grand , Mario Giuseppe Guarcello , Nandini Hazra , Amina Helmi , Artemio Herrero , Daniela Iglesias , Dragana Ilic , Vid Irsic , Valentin D. Ivanov , Luca Izzo , Pascale Jablonka , Benjamin Joachimi , Darshan Kakkad , Sebastian Kamann , Sergey Koposov , Georges Kordopatis , Andjelka B. Kovacevic , Katarina Kraljic , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Yuna Kwon , Fiorangela La Forgia , Ofer Lahav , Clotilde Laigle , Monica Lazzarin , Ryan Leaman , Floriane Leclercq , Khee-Gan Lee , David Lee , Matt D. Lehnert , Paulina Lira , Eleonora Loffredo , Sara Lucatello , Laura Magrini , Kate Maguire , Guillaume Mahler , Fatemeh Zahra Majidi , Nicola Malavasi , Filippo Mannucci , Marcella Marconi , Nicolas Martin , Federico Marulli , Davide Massari , Tadafumi Matsuno , Jorryt Mattheee , Sean McGee , Jaroslav Merc , Thibault Merle , Andrea Miglio , Alessandra Migliorini , Ivan Minchev , Dante Minniti , Nuria Miret-Roig , Ana Monreal Ibero , Federico Montano , Ben T. Montet , Michele Moresco , Chiara Moretti , Lauro Moscardini , Andres Moya , Oliver Mueller , Themiya Nanayakkara , Matt Nicholl , Thomas Nordlander , Francesca Onori , Marco Padovani , Anna Francesca Pala , Swayamtrupta Panda , Mamta Pandey-Pommier , Luca Pasquini , Michal Pawlak , Priscila J. Pessi , Alice Pisani , Lukav C. Popovic , Loredana Prisinzano , Roberto Raddi , Monica Rainer , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Johan Richard , Mickael Rigault , Antoine Rocher , Donatella Romano , Piero Rosati , Germano Sacco , Ruben Sanchez-Janssen , Andreas A. C. Sander , Jason L. Sanders , Mark Sargent , Elena Sarpa , Carlo Schimd , Pietro Schipani , Emiliano Sefusatti , Graham P. Smith , Lorenzo Spina , Matthias Steinmetz , Sandro Tacchella , Grazina Tautvaisiene , Christopher Theissen , Guillaume Thomas , Yuan-Sen Ting , Tony Travouillon , Laurence Tresse , Oem Trivedi , Maria Tsantaki , Maria Tsedrik , Tanya Urrutia , Elena Valenti , Mathieu Van der Swaelmen , Sophie Van Eck , Francesco Verdiani , Aurelien Verdier , Susanna Diana Vergani , Anne Verhamme , Joel Vernet , Giovanni Verza , Matteo Viel , Pauline Vielzeuf , Giustina Vietri , Jorick S. Vink , Carlos Viscasillas Vazquez , Hai-Feng Wang , Peter M. Weilbacher , Martin Wendt , Nicholas Wright , Quanzhi Ye , Christophe Yeche , Jiaxi Yu , Tayyaba Zafar , Stefano Zibetti , Bodo Ziegler , Igor Zinchenko

Large FOV short-wave infrared meta-lens for scanning fiber endoscopy

The scanning fiber endoscope (SFE), an ultra-small optical imaging device with a large field-of-view (FOV) for having a clear forward view into the interior of blood vessels, has great potential in the cardio-vascular disease diagnosis and…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-22 Ningzhi Xie , Matthew D. Carson , Johannes E. Fröch , Arka Majumdar , Eric Seibel , Karl F. Böhringer

VSI: the VLTI spectro-imager

The VLTI Spectro Imager (VSI) was proposed as a second-generation instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer providing the ESO community with spectrally-resolved, near-infrared images at angular resolutions down to 1.1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Malbet , D. Buscher , G. Weigelt , P. Garcia , M. Gai , D. Lorenzetti , J. Surdej , J. Hron , R. Neuhaeuser , P. Kern , L. Jocou , J. -P. Berger , O. Absil , U. Beckmann , L. Corcione , G. Duvert , M. Filho , P. Labeye , E. Le Coarer , G. Li Causi , J. Lima , K. Perraut , E. Tatulli , E. Thiebaut , J. Young , G. Zins , A. Amorim , B. Aringer , T. Beckert , M. Benisty , X. Bonfils , A. Cabral , A. Chelli , O. Chesneau , A. Chiavassa , R. Corradi , M. de Becker , A. Delboulbe , G. Duchene , T. Forveille , C. Haniff , E. Herwats , K. -H. Hofmann , J. -B. Le Bouquin , S. Ligori , D. Loreggia , A. Marconi , A. Moitinho , B. Nisini , P. -O. Petrucci , J. Rebordao , R. Speziali , L. Testi , F. Vitali

Cosmology with ESO-SKAO Synergies

We discuss the possible synergies for cosmology between SKAO and ESO facilities, focusing on the combinations SKA-Mid with the Multi-Object Spectrograph Telescope (4MOST) instrument built for ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Mario G. Santos , Stefano Camera , Zhaoting Chen , Steven Cunnington , Jose Fonseca

The discovery space of ELT-ANDES. Stars and stellar populations

The ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph (ANDES) is the optical and near-infrared high-resolution echelle spectrograph envisioned for the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). We present a selection of science cases, supported…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Ian U. Roederer , Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez , Carlos Allende Prieto , Vardan Adibekyan , David Aguado , Pedro J. Amado , Eliana M. Amazo-Gómez , Martina Baratella , Sydney A. Barnes , Thomas Bensby , Lionel Bigot , Andrea Chiavassa , Armando Domiciano de Souza , Camilla Juul Hansen , Silva P. Järvinen , Andreas J. Korn , Sara Lucatello , Laura Magrini , Roberto Maiolino , Paolo Di Marcantonio , Alessandro Marconi , José R. De Medeiros , Alessio Mucciarelli , Nicolas Nardetto , Livia Origlia , Celine Peroux , Katja Poppenhäger , Cristina Rodr\'íguez-López , Donatella Romano , Stefania Salvadori , Patrick Tisserand , Kim Venn , Gregg Wade , Alessio Zanutta

Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science with the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE)

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is a planned 11.25-m aperture facility with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. A rebirth of the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-11 Maria Bergemann , Daniel Huber , Vardan Adibekyan , George Angelou , Daniela Barría , Timothy C. Beers , Paul G. Beck , Earl P. Bellinger , Joachim M. Bestenlehner , Bertram Bitsch , Adam Burgasser , Derek Buzasi , Santi Cassisi , Márcio Catelan , Ana Escorza , Scott W. Fleming , Boris T. Gänsicke , Davide Gandolfi , Rafael A. García , Mark Gieles , Amanda Karakas , Yveline Lebreton , Nicolas Lodieu , Carl Melis , Thibault Merle , Szabolcs Mészáros , Andrea Miglio , Karan Molaverdikhani , Richard Monier , Thierry Morel , Hilding R. Neilson , Mahmoudreza Oshagh , Jan Rybizki , Aldo Serenelli , Rodolfo Smiljanic , Gyula M. Szabó , Silvia Toonen , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Marica Valentini , Sophie Van Eck , Konstanze Zwintz , Amelia Bayo , Jan Cami , Luca Casagrande , Maksim Gabdeev , Patrick Gaulme , Guillaume Guiglion , Gerald Handler , Lynne Hillenbrand , Mutlu Yildiz , Mark Marley , Benoit Mosser , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Andrej Prsa , Juan V. Hernández Santisteban , Victor Silva Aguirre , Jennifer Sobeck , Dennis Stello , Robert Szabo , Maria Tsantaki , Eva Villaver , Nicholas J. Wright , Siyi Xu , Huawei Zhang , Borja Anguiano , Megan Bedell , Bill Chaplin , Remo Collet , Devika Kamath , Sarah Martell , Sérgio G. Sousa , Yuan-Sen Ting , Kim Venn

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representative samples of the stellar populations in the Galaxy, and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 G. Gilmore , S. Randich , C. C. Worley , A. Hourihane , A. Gonneau , G. G. Sacco , J. R. Lewis , L. Magrini , P. Francois , R. D. Jeffries , S. E. Koposov , A. Bragaglia , E. J. Alfaro , C. Allende Prieto , R. Blomme , A. J. Korn , A. C. Lanzafame , E. Pancino , A. Recio-Blanco , R. Smiljanic , S. Van Eck , T. Zwitter , T. Bensby , E. Flaccomio , M. J. Irwin , E. Franciosini , L. Morbidelli , F. Damiani , R. Bonito , E. D. Friel , J. S. Vink , L. Prisinzano , U. Abbas , D. Hatzidimitriou , E. V. Held , C. Jordi , E. Paunzen , A. Spagna , R. J. Jackson , J. Maiz Apellaniz , M. Asplund , P. Bonifacio , S. Feltzing , J. Binney , J. Drew , A. M. N. Ferguson , G. Micela , I. Negueruela , T. Prusti , H. -W. Rix , A. Vallenari , M. Bergemann , A. R. Casey , P. de Laverny , A. Frasca , V. Hill , K. Lind , L. Sbordone , S. G. Sousa , V. Adibekyan , E. Caffau , S. Daflon , D. K. Feuillet , M. Gebran , J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez , G. Guiglion , A. Herrero , A. Lobel , T. Merle , S. Mikolaitis , D. Montes , T. Morel , G. Ruchti , C. Soubiran , H. M. Tabernero , G. Tautvaisiene , G. Traven , M. Valentini , M. Van der Swaelmen , S. Villanova , C. Viscasillas Vazquez , A. Bayo , K. Biazzo , G. Carraro , B. Edvardsson , U. Heiter , P. Jofre , G. Marconi , C. Martayan , T. Masseron , L. Monaco , N. A. Walton , S. Zaggia , V. Aguirre Borsen-Koch , J. Alves , L. Balaguer-Nunez , P. S. Barklem , D. Barrado , M. Bellazzini , S. R. Berlanas , A. S. Binks , A. Bressan , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , L. Casagrande , L. Casamiquela , R. S. Collins , V. D'Orazi , M. L. L. Dantas , V. P. Debattista , E. Delgado-Mena , P. Di Marcantonio , A. Drazdauskas , N. W. Evans , B. Famaey , M. Franchini , Y. Fremat , X. Fu , D. Geisler , O. Gerhard , E. A. Gonzalez Solares , E. K. Grebel , M. L. Gutierrez Albarran , F. Jimenez-Esteban , H. Jonsson , T. Khachaturyants , G. Kordopatis , J. Kos , N. Lagarde , H. -G. Ludwig , L. Mahy , M. Mapelli , E. Marfil , S. L. Martell , S. Messina , A. Miglio , I. Minchev , A. Moitinho , J. Montalban , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , C. Morossi , N. Mowlavi , A. Mucciarelli , D. N. A. Murphy , N. Nardetto , S. Ortolani , F. Paletou , J. Palous , J. C. Pickering , A. Quirrenbach , P. Re Fiorentin , J. I. Read , D. Romano , N. Ryde , N. Sanna , W. Santos , G. M. Seabroke , L. Spina , M. Steinmetz , E. Stonkute , E. Sutorius , F. Thevenin , M. Tosi , M. Tsantaki , N. Wright , R. F. G. Wyse , M. Zoccali , J. Zorec , D. B. Zucker

Testing the near-infrared optical assembly of the space telescope Euclid

Euclid is a space telescope currently developed in the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Program. It addresses fundamental cosmological questions related to dark matter and dark energy. The lens system of one of the two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Christof Bodendorf , Norbert Geis , Frank Grupp , Jennifer Kaminski , Reinhard Katterloher , Ralf Bender

Euclid preparation: I. The Euclid Wide Survey

Euclid is an ESA mission designed to constrain the properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It will carry out a wide area imaging and spectroscopy survey (EWS) in visible and near-infrared,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 R. Scaramella , J. Amiaux , Y. Mellier , C. Burigana , C. S. Carvalho , J. -C. Cuillandre , A. Da Silva , A. Derosa , J. Dinis , E. Maiorano , M. Maris , I. Tereno , R. Laureijs , T. Boenke , G. Buenadicha , X. Dupac , L. M. Gaspar Venancio , P. Gómez-Álvarez , J. Hoar , J. Lorenzo Alvarez , G. D. Racca , G. Saavedra-Criado , J. Schwartz , R. Vavrek , M. Schirmer , H. Aussel , R. Azzollini , V. F. Cardone , M. Cropper , A. Ealet , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. R. Granett , L. Guzzo , H. Hoekstra , K. Jahnke , T. Kitching , M. Meneghetti , L. Miller , R. Nakajima , S. M. Niemi , F. Pasian , W. J. Percival , M. Sauvage , M. Scodeggio , S. Wachter , A. Zacchei , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , T. Auphan , N. Auricchio , S. Awan , A. Balestra , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , S. Brau-Nogue , M. Brescia , G. P. Candini , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , R. G. Carlberg , J. Carretero , R. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , A. Costille , F. Courbin , H. Degaudenzi , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , S. Dusini , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , P. Hudelot , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , M. Melchior , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , B. Morin , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. C. Nichol , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , J. Peacock , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , M. Poncet , L. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , J. Rhodes , H. -W. Rix , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. L. Starck , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , M. Trifoglio , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , G. A. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , J. Weller , M. Wetzstein , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Boucaud , S. Camera , G. Fabbian , R. Farinelli , J. Graciá-Carpio , D. Maino , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , C. Neissner , G. Polenta , A. Renzi , E. Romelli , C. Rosset , F. Sureau , M. Tenti , T. Vassallo , E. Zucca , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , S. Borgani , E. Bozzo , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , S. Casas , G. Castignani , C. Colodro-Conde , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , J. Cuby , S. de la Torre , S. Desai , D. Di Ferdinando , H. Dole , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , P. G. Ferreira , F. Finelli , P. Flose-Reimberg , S. Fotopoulou , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , G. Gozaliasl , I. M. Hook , E. Keihanen , C. C. Kirkpatrick , P. Liebing , V. Lindholm , G. Mainetti , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , M. Maturi , H. J. McCracken , R. B. Metcalf , G. Morgante , J. Nightingale , A. Nucita , L. Patrizii , D. Potter , G. Riccio , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , J. A. Schewtschenko , M. Schultheis , V. Scottez , R. Teyssier , I. Tutusaus , J. Valiviita , M. Viel , W. Vriend , L. Whittaker

GYES, a multifibre spectrograph for the CFHT

We have chosen the name of GYES, one of the mythological giants with one hundred arms, offspring of Gaia and Uranus, for our instrument study of a multifibre spectrograph for the prime focus of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Such an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. Bonifacio , S. Mignot , J. -L. Dournaux , P. François , E. Caffau , F. Royer , C. Babusiaux , F. Arenou , C. Balkowski , O. Bienaymé , D. Briot , R. Carlberg , M. Cohen , G. B. Dalton , B. Famaey , G. Fasola , Y. Frémat , A. Gómez , M. Haywood , V. Hill , J. -M. Huet , D. Katz , D. Horville , R. Kudritzky , R. Lallement , Ph. Laporte , P. de Laverny , B. Lemasle , I. J. Lewis , C. Martayan , R. Monier , D. Mourard , N. Nardetto , . A. Recio Blanco , N. Robichon , A. C. Robin , M. Rodrigues , C. Soubiran , C. Turon , K. Venn , Y. Viala

Astronomical Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy is one of the most important tools that an astronomer has for studying the universe. This chapter begins by discussing the basics, including the different types of optical spectrographs, with extension to the ultraviolet and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Philip Massey , Margaret M. Hanson

The fiber-fed preslit of GIANO at T.N.G

Giano is a Cryogenic Spectrograph located in T.N.G. (Spain) and commisioned in 2013. It works in the range 950-2500 nm with a resolving power of 50000. This instrument was designed and built for direct feeding from the telescope [2].…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Tozzi , E. Oliva , L. Origlia , C. Baffa , V. Biliotti , G. Falcini , E. Giani , M. Iuzzolino , F. Massi , N. Sanna , S. Scuderi , M. Sozzi

Towards Precision Photometry with Extremely Large Telescopes: the Double Subgiant Branch of NGC 1851

The Extremely Large Telescopes currently under construction have a collecting area that is an order of magnitude larger than the present largest optical telescopes. For seeing-limited observations the performance will scale as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-10 P. Turri , A. W. McConnachie , P. B. Stetson , G. Fiorentino , D. R. Andersen , J. -P. Véran , G. Bono