FLAMES Documentation

All the manuals are in Adobe's Acrobat (pdf) format.

• FLAMES User's Manual
  All the information about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics.
  • Period 89, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 90, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 91, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 92, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  
  
• FLAMES Template User Manual
  Detailed information on the acquisition, observation, and calibration templates.
  • Period 89, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 90, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 91, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 92, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  
  
• FPOSS User Manual
  Detailed information on the preparation of fibre configurations.
  • Period 89, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 90, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 91, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 92, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  
  
• FLAMES Calibration Plan
  Detailed information on the calibration plan of FLAMES observations.
  • Period 89, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 90, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 91, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  • Period 92, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation.
  
  

• Data reduction and other reports
  • GIRAFFE data reduction cookbook is available (Updated for P85). Please, download also the demo dataset (80M). Send us your comments and contributions you may have to improve this document.
  • Notes by M. Zoccali on the treatment of atmospheric diffraction (in ps format)
  • FLAMES-ARGUS (public) Commissioning Report. A high-resolution version and an animated version of the eta Carinae data cube are available.
  • FLAMES 6th Anniversary presentations (Workshop held in Garching, Dec 1st-3rd 2008).

Other FLAMES publications - mainly technical in nature:

1. FLAMES: a Multi-object Fibre Facility for the VLT
   Pasquini L. et al.
   conference, Munich, March 2000
   Format: PostScript compressed (1301kb)
   Please cite this publication when writing papers containing FLAMES data.
2. Mechanical features for the OzPoz positioner for the VLT
   Gillingham et al.
   SPIE conference, Munich, March 2000
   Format: PostScript compressed (1209kb)
3. KUEYEN: a unique machine for stellar studies
   Pasquini L.
   "From Extrasolar Planets to Cosmology: The VLT Opening Symposium",
   2000, eds. J. Bergeron and A. Renzini (Springer), p. 211
   Format: PostScript compressed (23kb)
4. The Data Reduction Software for GIRAFFE, the VLT medium resolution multi-object fiber-fed spectrograph
   A. Blecha, V. Cayatte, P. North, F. Royer, G. Simond
   proceedings for SPIE conference: "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000",
   Format: pdf
5. Installation and first results of FLAMES, the VLT multifibre facility
   Pasquini, L. et. al.
   proceedings for SPIE conference: "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2002",
   Format: postscript)
6. Installation and commissioning of FLAMES, the VLT multifibre facility
   Pasquini, L. et. al.
   The Messenger no. 110, December 2002.
   Format: pdf (9.4 MBytes). A high resolution version is also available (27.7 MBytes).
7. Toward accurate radial velocities with the fibre-fed GIRAFFE multi-object VLT spectrograph
   Royer, F. et. al.
   proceedings for SPIE conference : "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2002"
   Format: PostScript compressed (660kb)
8. Two Extremely Hot Exoplanets Caught in Transits
   Bouchy et al.
   ESO press release, May 2004.
   Format: html
9. Quality Control of VLT-FLAMES/GIRAFFE data
   Hanuschik et al.
   In: "Optimizing Scientific Return for Astronomy through Information Technologies ", SPIE Glasgow 2004.
   Format: pdf (556kb)
10. Quality Control for UVES-fiber at the VLT-Kueyen Telescope
    Wolff et al.
    In: "Optimizing Scientific Return for Astronomy through Information Technologies ", SPIE Glasgow 2004.
    Format: pdf (204kb)
11. Performance of FLAMES at the VLT: 1 year of Operations
    Pasquini et al.
    In: "Ground-based instrumentation for Astronomy", SPIE Glasgow 2004.
    Format: pdf (3364kb)