FLAMES: a multi-object fiber facility for the VLT

Luca Pasquini; Gerardo Avila; Eric Allaert; Pascal Ballester; Peter Biereichel; Bernard Buzzoni; Cyril Cavadore; Hans Dekker; Bernard Delabre; F. Ferraro; Vanessa Hill; Andreas Kaufer; Heinz Kotzlowski; Jean-Luis Lizon; Antonio Longinotti; S. Moureau; Ralf Palsa; S. Zaggia

doi:10.1117/12.395491

16 August 2000 FLAMES: a multi-object fiber facility for the VLT

Luca Pasquini, Gerardo Avila, Eric Allaert, Pascal Ballester, Peter Biereichel, Bernard Buzzoni, Cyril Cavadore, Hans Dekker, Bernard Delabre, F. Ferraro, Vanessa Hill, Andreas Kaufer, Heinz Kotzlowski, Jean-Luis Lizon, Antonio Longinotti, S. Moureau, Ralf Palsa, S. Zaggia

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Proceedings Volume 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395491
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

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.

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Luca Pasquini, Gerardo Avila, Eric Allaert, Pascal Ballester, Peter Biereichel, Bernard Buzzoni, Cyril Cavadore, Hans Dekker, Bernard Delabre, F. Ferraro, Vanessa Hill, Andreas Kaufer, Heinz Kotzlowski, Jean-Luis Lizon, Antonio Longinotti, S. Moureau, Ralf Palsa, and S. Zaggia "FLAMES: a multi-object fiber facility for the VLT", Proc. SPIE 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors, (16 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395491

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