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In April/May 2008, the GIRAFFE CCD has been replaced by "Carreras", with much higher red sensitivity and reduced fringing in the red. It is an e2v 2-layer anti-reflection coated, deep-depletion CCD, with the same number of pixels (2048x4096) as the old CCD. More information provided here. Last data taken with the old CCD are from 2008-03-13. The first science night with the new CCD is 2008-05-26.

Giraffe is part of the complex FLAMES spectroscopic facility installed at the Nasmyth A focus of UT2/Kueyen. FLAMES is able to feed the two spectrographs UVES and Giraffe simultaneously through fibre connections. Find more about the FLAMES facility here.

This section of the Data Processing and Quality Control web pages covers the FLAMES/Giraffe data.

Find the FLAMES/UVES section here.

A general description of the FLAMES capabilities is also available.

All Service Mode data from Giraffe pass Data Flow Operations Garching. In the Service Mode packages, raw and processed data from GIRAFFE are distributed.

Use the Giraffe archive web page to browse and download Giraffe raw data.

More information on the Giraffe instrument, especially all technical aspects, can be found on the FLAMES web pages. The current Giraffe User's Manual is available here.

Find here information on Giraffe Quality Control, pipeline processing, and Data Flow Operations topics.