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The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 23-26 January 2007

:	Andreas Kaufer, Florian Kerber
:	Andreas Kaufer, Florian Kerber
:	The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 23-26 January 2007
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783540769637
:	1
:	CHF 41.30
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:	Astronomie
:	English

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The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration workshop brought together more than 120 participants with the objective to a) foster the sharing of information, experience and techniques between observers, instrument developers and instrument operation teams, b) review the actual precision and limitations of the applied instrument calibration plans, and c) collect the current and future requirements by the ESO users.

These present proceedings include the majority of the workshop's contributions and document the status quo of instrument calibration at ESO in large detail. Topics covered are: Optical Spectro-Imagers, Optical Multi-Object Spectrographs, NIR and MIR Spectro-Imagers, High-Resolution Spectrographs, Integral Field Spectrographs, Adaptive Optics Instruments, Polarimetric Instruments, Wide Field Imagers, Interferometric Instruments as well as other crucial aspects such as data flow, quality control, data reduction software and atmospheric effects.

It was stated in the workshop that 'calibration is a life-long learning process''. In this sense, this book will be a reference point for all future efforts to improve instrument calibration procedures in astronomy.

	Preface	5
	Contents	7
	List of Contributors	15
	Part I Introduction	27
	Instruments Calibration at the La Silla Paranal Observatory	28
	1 La Silla Paranal Observatory	28
	1.1 Scientific Operations: Statistic	28
	2 From the Theory (VLT White Book) to the Practice (Operations)	31
	2.1 The Calibration Plan	31
	2.2 The Quality Control (QC)	32
	2.3 The Instrument Operation Team (IOT)	33
	References	34
	Discussion	34
	The Detector Monitoring Project	35
	1 Introduction	35
	2 Status at the La Silla Observatory	36
	3 Status at the Paranal Observatory	38
	4 The Detector Monitoring Plan	40
	5 The Common Pipeline Library	43
	References	44
	Discussion	45
	Part II Session 1: Optical Spectro-Imagers	46
	IOT Overview: Optical Spectro-Imagers	47
	1 The Long Tradition of Optical Spectro-Imagers at ESO	47
	2 Open Issues	49
	3 Instrument Operations Team (IOT) Parallel Activities	51
	References	54
	Discussion	54
	Photometry with FORS	56
	1 Introduction	56
	2 Data	56
	3 Results	57
	Summary and Outlook	61
	References	61
	Radial Velocity Measurements Based on FORS2 and FLAMES Spectra	62
	1 Introduction	62
	2 Data Samples	63
	3 Conclusions	66
	References	67
	Discussion	68
	The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Instrumental Stability and Detection of Massive Binaries	69
	1 Introduction	69
	2 Binary Parameters	70
	3 Instrumental Stability	70
	References	71
	VIMOS Total Transmission Pro.les for Broad-Band Filters	72
	1 Transmission Profiles of Telescope + Instrument	72
	2 Transmission Pro.les of Broad-Band Filters	74
	3 Conclusions	74
	Laboratory Measurements of Calibration Sources for X-Shooter	76