ESO paranal instrumentation programme

Norbert Hubin

doi:10.1117/12.2561005

14 December 2020 ESO paranal instrumentation programme

Norbert Hubin

Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 1144704 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561005
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

The Paranal Instrumentation Programme is responsible for planning and delivering the instruments and the associated infrastructures needed to keep the VLT and La Silla Observatories at the forefront of ground-based astronomy. With the completion of commissioning of the AOF, ESPRESSO, the AO system for the four VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes (NAOMI) and the two VLTI instruments GRAVITY, MATISSE, Gravity for Matisse fringe tracking, all second generation VLT instruments are now offered to the users. CRIRES upgrade is currently in full commissioning at VLT and the exo-planet science instrument NIRPS spectrograph is on its way to the 3.6 m telescope at La Silla. By keeping the foreseen roadmap (start one new instrument or upgrade every year), the programme is now completing the AO imager and IFU ERIS, an upgrade of AOF narrow field mode: IRLOS and is integrating the two MOS Instruments MOONS and 4MOST. A dedicated La Silla NTT instrument to transient science SOXS is also in construction. Ph

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Norbert Hubin "ESO paranal instrumentation programme", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 1144704 (14 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561005

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