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Release of X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV2) data

mvuong — 2009-10-16T12:20:22Z

The X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV2) observations took place between September 26 and 29 2009. The SV observations are being performed in "service mode style" by a dedicated team and the collected data are made available to the whole user community.

HST Servicing Mission 4 - Early Public Observation Data Products

jhaase — 2009-09-09T16:14:45Z

On September 9, 2009 NASA held a press conference to highlight Hubble's new instruments and their capabilities and to show that the refurbished instruments are working well and are once again able to provide amazing science data. After the press conference, data from all non-proprietary programs that have executed since the servicing mission are available to the community. In anticipation of a relatively heavy demand, the archives at STScI and the ESO/ST-ECF have pre-staged these data so they are available for download via anonymous ftp. In addition to faster response, the pre-staged data will be of better quality than that immediately available through the pipeline. The most current reference files and other calibration data will not be installed into the pipeline until after the press conference. These data were processed by the instrument teams and use the best available calibrations.

Release of PRIMA Fringe Sensor Unit Commissioning Data

mvuong — 2009-09-01T12:45:49Z

PRIMA is a VLTI facility comprising many subsystems currently under commisioning. This commissioning data release includes a total of 2034 files (~34.7 GB) collected over 30 nights split in six periods plus one UT technical night. All data was collected in single-feed fringe tracking using the VLTI instrument PACMAN operating the PRIMA fringe sensor units (FSU).

Release of X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV1) data

ndelmott — 2009-08-27T12:19:07Z

The X-SHOOTER Science Verification (SV1) observations took place between August 10 and 15 2009. X-SHOOTER SV observations are being performed in "service mode style" by a dedicated team and the collected data are made available to the whole user community.

Release of X-SHOOTER commissioning data

mvuong — 2009-07-14T11:54:00Z

This release of the X-shooter Commissioning data includes a total of 4594 files collected over 24 nights split in four commissioning periods. The first two commissioning runs were with the UV-B and VIS-R arms only, the 3rd and 4th with the UV-B, VIS-R and NIR arms.

Direct access to proprietary raw and reduced files

admin — 2009-06-29T13:35:08Z

As an ESO PI, you can now retrieve online your raw data while they are still protected under their proprietary period. In addition to the raw science files, the corresponding data package will also contain raw and master calibrations, science data products and ancillary information (processing logs, excerpts from the relevant observing logs, etc).

New public HARPS Advanced Data Products

rslijkhu — 2009-06-25T15:33:24Z

Two more years of public HARPS data packages have been released by the External Data Products group within ESO's Data Products department,. The first six years of operation of this instrument are now covered (2003-2008).

GOODS/VIMOS Imaging Data Release: Version 1.0

rslijkhu — 2009-04-24T13:10:23Z

As part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), deep imaging in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) has been carried out, using the VIMOS instrument mounted at the Melipal Unit Telescope of the VLT at ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

Blu-ray discs for data distribution

admin — 2009-11-16T08:07:08Z

The new Blu-ray disc technology will be introduced end of 2009 in the Science Archive Facility. Parallel to the introduction of the Blu-ray discs, the archive will also stop offering CDs as archive data distribution medium. Therefore, archive users anticipating large data requests and Principal Investigators (PIs) expecting significant data deliveries from their observing programmes are advised to make sure that they have available Blu-ray disc readers.

APEX weather query form

mvuong — 2009-01-20T16:02:37Z

Meteorological data for Chajnantor, including the precipitable water vapour, are now available from the ESO archive. The data are obtained from the APEX weather station and radiometer. The ESO archive database contains all available weather data from January, 1st 2007 onwards.

Direct Access to Hubble Data

jhaase — 2009-01-15T15:20:52Z

The Hubble Archive at the ST-ECF is pleased to announce that most data are now online in fully calibrated form ready for immediate download from the cache - no more waiting for on-the-fly processing is needed.

30 Doradus HAWK-I Commissioning data release

mvuong — 2008-12-12T09:05:28Z

The Commissioning and Science Verification (SV) for HAWK-I were carried out following the VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures. The observations were taking place between October 2007 and January 2008. HAWK-I commissioning images of 30 Doradus have been released.

AMBER/FINITO/UTs Science Verification data release

mvuong — 2008-10-24T12:38:45Z

The Science Verification (SV) of AMBER+FINITO+UTs is carried out following the same guidelines applied to all VLT instruments. The observations took place between 13 and 15 October, 2008.

zCOSMOS DR2 Advanced Data Products now available

rslijkhu — 2008-10-01T08:25:33Z

The zCOSMOS redshift survey has been designed to efficiently utilize VIMOS by splitting the survey into two parts. The first, zCOSMOS-bright, aims to produce a redshift survey of approximately 20,000 I-band selected galaxies at redshifts z < 1.2. Covering the approximately 1.7 deg2 of the COSMOS field (essentially the full ACS-covered area), the transverse dimension at z ~ 1 is 75 Mpc. The second part, zCOSMOS-deep, will observe about 10,000 galaxies selected through well-defined colour selection criteria which mostly lie at 1.5 < z < 3.0. Simply to keep the required amount of telescope time manageable, the field of zCOSMOS-deep is restricted to the central 1 deg2 of the COSMOS field.

MAD Science Demonstration data release

mvuong — 2008-08-22T12:02:45Z

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).