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30 Doradus HAWK-I Commissioning data release

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.

Published: 2008-12-12

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AMBER/FINITO/UTs Science Verification data release

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.

Published: 2008-10-24

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zCOSMOS DR2 Advanced Data Products now available

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.

Published: 2008-10-01

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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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