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MAD Science Demonstration data release

The Science Demonstration (SD) of MAD is carried out largely following the philosophy applied to the Science Verification of the VLT instruments. MAD SD runs took place in November 2007 (SD1), January 2008 (SD2) and August 2008 (SD3).

Published: 2008-08-22

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AMBER instrument specific query form now available

AMBER, the near-infrared/red focal instrument of the VLTI, operates in the bands J, H, and, K (ie 1.0 to 2.4 μm). The instrument has been designed to be used with two or three beams, thus enabling also the use of closure phase techniques. The magnitude limits of AMBER are K=7 with Low Resolution (LR-HK) on UTs and K=5 on the ATs, K=4 with Medium Resolution K-band (MR-K) on the UTs and K=1.6 on the ATs, and K=1.5 with High Resolution K-band (HR-K) on UTs.

Published: 2008-08-12

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HAWK-I instrument specific query form now available

HAWK-I is a cryogenic wide-field imager installed at the Nasmyth A focus of UT4. This query form provides access to observations performed with HAWK-I that are stored on-line in the Science Archive Facility in Garching.

Published: 2008-08-07

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APEX SHFI Science Verification Data Release

The Science Verification observations of the APEX Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument (SHFI) were observed in March 2008. ESO requested input from the community by issuing a call for SV projects in February 2008, with 39 proposals received. A selection of the APEX-1 proposals listed below have been observed during the week of joint SV observations in March 2008. The APEX-3 and APEX-T2 SV projects will be observed later in dynamical scheduling. ESO will also continue observing APEX-1 proposals during period 81. The SHFI science verification projects from the other APEX partners are also available. The data release includes both the raw MBFITS files and a tar file containing the observing logs and the merged CLASS file.

Published: 2008-05-20

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ESO Advanced Data Products query form now available

This new query form provides the users with a unified access to the ESO collection of both imaging and spectroscopic Advanced Data Products (ADP).

Published: 2008-05-15

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VLTI RMN recorder commissioning Data Release

The Commissioning of the VLTI RMN recorder took place in January 2008 using a configuration involving two ATs and Finito in Fringe tracking mode.

Published: 2008-04-23

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EURO-VO AIDA Research Initiative, deadline June 15, 2008

Within the framework of AIDA (Astronomical Infrastructure for Data Access), the European Virtual Observatory (EURO-VO) project is seeking proposals from teams carrying out archival research or projects that could benefit from the Virtual Observatory concept.

Published: 2008-04-18

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As of 1st April 2008, PIs can access their own raw proprietary data at any time through the ESO archive

As of 1st April 2008, PIs can access their own raw proprietary data at any time through the ESO archive. To this end, the archive interfaces have been slightly modified. The two figures below compare the old, familiar version (left panel) to the new one in place as of April 1st (right panel). As it can be seen, in this latter the "Mark" button at the left of the web interface page is now color-coded. A green checkbox means that the data are public to everyone, whereas a red one means that they are still covered by the proprietary period and that only their respective PI will be able to download them. Authentication through the User Portal is required for this latter step. Please note that anybody can request proprietary data, e.g. the red "Mark" buttons are clickable also by non PIs, but that only PIs will be able to actually download them. This seemingly odd behavior was made necessary to allow all users, irrespective whether they are PIs of ESO data or not, to freely browse the ESO archive.

Published: 2008-03-31

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GaBoDS/WFI data release: Version 1.1

As part of the ESO Deep Public Survey (DPS), optical imaging observations were carried out in U, B, V, R, I bands, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) instrument mounted at the 2.2m telescope at La Silla, Chile. This survey consisted of three square degrees in three well-separated regions (Deep1, Deep2 and Deep3) split into 4 adjacent WFI pointings (named a, b, c, d). The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey (GaBoDS) combines the data from this survey with data from most other ESO programmes that coincide with the original DPS regions, up until December 2006.

Published: 2008-03-19

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ESO/MVM data reduction software release - NEW: with step-by-step instructions for VLT/ISAAC image data reduction

ESO/MVM (or "alambic") is an end-to-end, high-throughput image reduction system, originally developed by Benoit Vandame at the Nice Observatory for a project based on Multi-resolution Vision Model (MVM), then as part of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) project, and finally it was taken over by the Virtual Observatory Systems department for the processing of targeted archival data, with the aim of enhancing the legacy value of the ESO archive.

Published: 2008-02-28

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