http://archive.eso.org/cms Site News daily 1 2007-08-03T17:43:11Z http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/mad-science-demonstration-data-release-1 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). No publisher mvuong 2008-08-22T12:02:45Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/amber-instrument-specific-query-form 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. No publisher mvuong 2008-08-12T11:15:17Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/hawk-i-instrument-specific-query-form 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. No publisher mvuong 2008-08-07T09:46:49Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/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. No publisher mvuong 2008-05-21T14:16:33Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/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). No publisher ndelmott 2008-05-15T10:29:24Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/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. No publisher mvuong 2008-04-23T12:43:46Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/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. No publisher admin 2008-04-18T12:38:40Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/as-of-1st-april-2008-pis-can-retrieve-their-proprietary-data 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. No publisher nfournio 2008-04-01T07:45:37Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/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. No publisher rslijkhu 2008-03-19T13:48:16Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/eso-mvm-data-reduction-software-release 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. No publisher rslijkhu 2008-03-31T15:32:39Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/goods-vimos-spectroscopy-data-release-version-1.0 As part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), multi-object spectroscopy of faint galaxies 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. No publisher rslijkhu 2008-02-21T11:08:29Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/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 (see the VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures document as reference). MAD SD runs took place in November 2007 and January 2008. No publisher mvuong 2008-02-29T14:03:55Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/monitor-ngc-2547-wfi-data-release-version-1-0-2008-01-21 As part of the Monitor project (Aigrain et al. 2007, MNRAS, 375, 29), a time-domain survey of NGC 2547 was carried out in I-band using the ESO Wide Field Imager mounted on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla, Chile. No publisher rslijkhu 2008-01-21T13:55:23Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/goods-fors2-final-data-release-version-3.0 As part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), multi-object, optical to NIR spectroscopy in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) has been carried out, using the FORS2 instrument mounted at the Kueyen Unit Telescope of the VLT at ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile. No publisher mdelgado 2007-11-26T10:48:29Z News Item http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-archive-news/hawk-i-science-verification The science verification (SV) for HAWK-I is being carried following the VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures . SV runs will be interleaved with commissioning and paranalisation activities, taking place between October 2007 and January 2008. No publisher mdelgado 2007-11-26T10:44:23Z News Item