Installation and first results of FLAMES, the VLT multifiber facility

Luca Pasquini; Jaime Alonso; Gerardo Avila; Pablo Barriga; Peter Biereichel; Bernard Buzzoni; Cyril Cavadore; Claudio Cumani; Hans Dekker; Bernard Delabre; Andreas Kaufer; Heinz Kotzlowski; Vanessa Hill; Jean-Luis Lizon; Walter Nees; Paolo Santin; Ricardo Schmutzer; A. V. Kesteren; Manuela Zoccali

doi:10.1117/12.458915

7 March 2003 Installation and first results of FLAMES, the VLT multifibre facility

Luca Pasquini, Jaime Alonso, Gerardo Avila, Pablo Barriga, Peter Biereichel, Bernard Buzzoni, Cyril Cavadore, Claudio Cumani, Hans Dekker, Bernard Delabre, Andreas Kaufer, Heinz Kotzlowski, Vanessa Hill, Jean-Luis Lizon, Walter Nees, Paolo Santin, Ricardo Schmutzer, A. V. Kesteren, Manuela Zoccali

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Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458915
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

FLAMES is the VLT Fibre Facility, installed and being commissioned at the Nasmyth A of UT2 (Kueyen Telescope). FLAMES has been built and assembled at the VLT telescope in about 4 years through an international collaboration between 10 institutes in 6 countries and 3 continents. It had first light with the fibre link to the red arm of UVES on April 1, and with the GIRAFFE spectrograph on July 3. We have not yet enough data to compare the observed vs. expected astronomical performances, although these first data are encouraging in many respects. We aim at proceeding soon with the remaining tests

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Luca Pasquini, Jaime Alonso, Gerardo Avila, Pablo Barriga, Peter Biereichel, Bernard Buzzoni, Cyril Cavadore, Claudio Cumani, Hans Dekker, Bernard Delabre, Andreas Kaufer, Heinz Kotzlowski, Vanessa Hill, Jean-Luis Lizon, Walter Nees, Paolo Santin, Ricardo Schmutzer, A. V. Kesteren, and Manuela Zoccali "Installation and first results of FLAMES, the VLT multifibre facility", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458915

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