AMBER Documentation

In this page, you will find all the manuals needed to prepare your observations with AMBER. Please be sure to download that corresponding to the period in which the observations will take place. For documentation on the AMBER data reduction check out the Tools section.

AMBER User's Manual

All the informations about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics.

• Period 83, to be used for the P83 call for proposal, deadline October 1, 2008.
• Period 84, to be used for the P84 call for proposal, deadline April 1, 2009.
• Period 85, to be used for the P85 call for proposal, deadline October 1, 2009.

The VLTI User Manual is to be used in addition to the AMBER manual for VLTI aspects and limits common to all instruments:

• VLTI User Manual for Period 84
• VLTI User Manual for Period 85

AMBER Template User Manual

Detailed information on the acquisition and observation templates.

• Period 83, to be used for the P83 P2PP stage.
• Period 84, to be used for the P84 P2PP stage.

AMBER P2PP Tutorial

A detailed tutorial on the AMBER specifics for P2PP P80 can be found at:

• http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/phase2/AMBER/P2PPTutorialAMBER.html.

AMBER Data Reduction Manual

The supported AMBER Data Reduction Software (DRS) is available from the AMBER consortium and the JMMC, and can be downloaded from http://www.mariotti.fr/data_processing_amber.htm. At the same place, the AMBER DRS documentation is available. It includes a general description of the data reduction, a presentation of the software, a cookbook so that you can experiment the data reduction on actual data, and a section with frequently-asked-questions.

The ESO Science Data Products Forum is also a source of informations.