Announcements

sciann13041 — Announcement

Call for Proposals for Period 93

3 September 2013: The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 93 (1 April–30 September 2014) has been released. Please consult CfP 93 document for the main news and policies related to applying for time on ESO telescopes. All technical information about the offered instruments and facilities is contained on ...
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sciann13040 — Announcement

ESO Post-doctoral Fellowships

3 September 2013: ESO has a prominent fellowship programme in both Garching (Germany) and Santiago (Chile), with a yearly application deadline. The goal of these fellowships is to offer outstanding early-career scientists the opportunity to further develop their independent research programmes in an exciting scientific environment with close contact to the activities and ...
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sciann13039 — Announcement

[Archive]: First Release of VST Public Imaging Survey Data

3 September 2013: The Science Archive Facility now provides community access to the first data products from the VST public survey projects. Following a year and a half of successful scientific operations, the VST public surveys have returned nearly 1.5 TB of reduced data products, which can be queried for and downloaded via ...
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sciann13038 — Announcement

[Archive]: Data Release of Spectra from the MATISSE/OCA-ESO Project (AMBRE)

3 September 2013: In a collaboration between the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA, Nice) and ESO, stellar radial velocities, and atmospheric parameters, including effective temperature, surface gravity, mean metallicity and enrichment in alpha-elements, have been obtained by analyzing 21551 FEROS spectra from the Science Archive Facility with the MATISSE parameterisation algorithm. A ...
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sciann13037 — Announcement

How to Get your Results Out as an ESO Press Release

3 September 2013: The science results coming from ESO's facilities are not just of interest to the astronomical community, but also to the public at large. ESO's education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD) is always pleased to hear about new results that might make ESO science press releases. Such releases not only give ...
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sciann13036 — Announcement

Proposal and Data Access Control

2 September 2013: A new version of ACE, the Access Control at ESO, has been released. This tool enables successful ESO proposal PIs to delegate and share with their collaborators access to the Phase 2 observation preparation, retrieval of proprietary data from the Science Archive and delegation for the Phase 3 data products ...
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sciann13035 — Announcement

Call for VIMOS Public Spectroscopic Surveys

19 July 2013: A call for letters of intent for VIMOS Public Spectroscopic Surveys has been issued. A public spectroscopic survey constitutes a commitment to a massive observing programme with up to 300 (visitor mode) nights devoted to answering a major scientific question. Fully reduced data must be made publicly available within a ...
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sciann13034 — Announcement

Period 92 Telescope Time Allocation

19 July 2013: The 92nd Observing Programmes Committee met on 21–24 May 2013 and recommended six new Large Programmes (two at the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, one at NTT + VLT UT1, one on VLT UT3 and two at APEX). A total of 1092 (8-hour equivalent) nights of visitor and service mode observations on ...
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sciann13033 — Announcement

Deadline for Period 92 Phase 2

19 July 2013: The Period 92 Phase 2 deadline for the Service Mode observations is Thursday, 8 August 2013 at 12:00 CET. The guidelines for the preparation and submission of the observing material are available here. All P92 users preparing observations for instruments located on Paranal must use the latest version of P2PP ...
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sciann13032 — Announcement

APEX LABOCA Data Handbook

19 July 2013: With wobbler on-off mode, the 870 micron Large Bolometer Camera (LABOCA) on APEX can obtain photometry of point sources with accurately known positions more efficiently than in the usual mapping mode. The data obtained with on-off mode can be reduced with the Bolometer Analysis (BoA) software. A new guide providing ...
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sciann13031 — Announcement

[Archive]: APEX Data Transfer Time Reduced

19 July 2013: As of April 2013, upgrades in network, data transfer software and archive software have enabled a significant reduction in the time it takes for an APEX observation to be available to users. Over the period since October 2012 this time has been cut by more than two-thirds, and now stands ...
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sciann13030 — Announcement

[Archive]: 2nd VISTA Public Survey Data Release

19 July 2013: New data products resulting from the VISTA public surveys are now available via the Phase 3 query interface from the Science Archive Facility. The current release of data from the VVV, VHS, VIKING, and VMC surveys (6.2 TB) covers mostly the period from October 2010 to September 2011 and consists ...
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sciann13029 — Announcement

[Archive]: First KMOS Science Verification Data Release

19 July 2013: The KMOS Science Verification (SV) programme consists of 20 proposals covering topics from exoplanets to distant galaxies. The first set of SV observations (SV1) took place during 24–30 June 2013. SV observations are performed in Service Mode by a dedicated team and the resulting raw data are immediately accessible to ...
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sciann13028 — Announcement

Job Vacancies: Director for Science and Operations Staff Astronomer (VLTI)

19 July 2013: Staff vacancies for the senior position of Director for Science, based in Garching, and for an operations astronomer at Paranal to support VLTI have been opened. The deadlines are 8 September and 31 August 2013, respectively. ESO Fellowships are also open for application with a deadline of 15 October 2013. ...
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sciann13027 — Announcement

Start of MUSE Installation and Dismounting of NACO from UT4

28 June 2013: On account of the activities related to the installation of MUSE, NACO will be dismounted from the Nasmyth platform of UT4 and unavailable from 2 September 2013.  At the time of releasing the Call for Proposals the exact timeline of MUSE arrival was not finalised and it was anticipated that ...
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sciann13026 — Announcement

Decommissioning of ISAAC

28 June 2013: In order to provide sufficient time for the preparation of the arrival of SPHERE at UT3, the activities to decommission ISAAC  will start on 10 December 2013. As of that date the instrument will no longer be available for science operations.
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sciann13025 — Announcement

ALMA Early Science Cycles 1 and 2 Timelines

28 June 2013: Cycle 1 Early Science observing resumed at nominal priority in June 2013 after development work on the array and infrastructure. To ensure sufficient time to complete many Cycle 1 high priority programmes, Cycle 1 has been extended until the end of May 2014 and Cycle 1 DDT proposals will be ...
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sciann13024 — Announcement

Future VLT Instruments: ERIS

28 June 2013: ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is a 1-5 µm instrument for the Cassegrain focus of UT4 at the VLT. It will benefit from the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF), including the deformable secondary mirror (DSM). ERIS consists of three main instrumental modules: an AO module, using the AOF DSM ...
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sciann13023 — Announcement

Annual Report 2012

28 June 2013: The ESO Annual Report for 2012 has been approved by the ESO Council and issued. The report carries news of research highlights and technical developments, summaries of the work of all the ESO Departments, digests of Committee meetings, and much more. The Annual Report is available in PDF from here.
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sciann13022 — Announcement

ESO Studentships

23 May 2013: The research studentship programme provides an outstanding opportunity for Ph.D. students to experience the exciting scientific environment, at one of the world's leading observatories, for a period of up to two years. ESO's studentship positions are open to students enrolled in a university Ph.D. programme in astronomy or related fields. ...
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