Performance of FLAMES at the VLT: one year of operation

Pasquini, Luca; Castillo, Roberto; Dekker, Hans; Hanuschik, Reinhard; Kaufer, Andreas; Modigliani, Andrea; Palsa, Ralf; Primas, Francesca; Scarpa, Riccardo; Smoker, Jonathan; Wolff, Burkhard
Referencia bibliográfica

Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by Alan F. M. Moorwood and Iye Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5492, pp. 136-147 (2004).

Fecha de publicación:
9
2004
Número de autores
11
Número de autores del IAC
0
Número de citas
14
Número de citas referidas
13
Descripción
Four years after its announcement at SPIE, FLAMES, the VLT fibre facility, has been completed, integrated into the VLT observatory and commissioned. It has been in operation since February 2003. More than 250000 scientific (single) spectra have been obtained, which have enabled the on-sky performance of the instrument to be compared to the predictions. We show that in several relevant aspects the real instrument significantly outperforms the specified astronomical performance. Some of the early scientific results are finally presented.