| Autor: |
S. Zaggia, F. Ferraro, Cyril Cavadore, Bernard Buzzoni, Antonio Longinotti, Vanessa Hill, J.-L. Lizon, Gerardo Avila, Andreas Kaufer, Heinz Kotzlowski, Pascal Ballester, Peter Biereichel, Bernard Delabre, Luca Pasquini, S. Moureau, Ralf Palsa, Hans Dekker, E. Allaert |
| Rok vydání: |
2000 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: |
0277-786X |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.395491 |
| Popis: |
FLAMES is a fiber facility to be installed on the A platform of the VLT Kueyen telescope, which can feed up to three spectrographs with fibers positioned over a corrected 25 arcminutes field of view. The initial configuration will include connections to the GIRAFFE and to the red arm of the UVES spectrographs, the latter, located on the Nasmyth B platform of the same telescope, is already in operation as a long slit stand alone instrument. The 8 fibers to UVES will give R approximately 45000 and a large spectral coverage, while GIRAFFE will be fed by 132 single fibers, or by 15 deployable integral field units or by one central large integral unit. GIRAFFE will be equipped with two gratings, giving R equals 5000-9000 and R equals 15000-25000 respectively. It will be possible to obtain GIRAFFE and UVES observations simultaneously. Special attention is paid to optimizing night operations and to providing appropriate data reduction. The instrument is rather complex and it is now in the construction phase; in addition to ESO, its realization has required the collaboration of several institutes grouped in 4 consortia. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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