MIDI Documentation

In this page, you will find all the manuals needed to prepare and analyze your observations with MIDI. Please be sure to download that corresponding to the period in which the observations will take place.

All the manuals are in Adobe's Acrobat format.

• MIDI User Manual
  All the informations about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics.
  • Period 90, to be used for period 90
  • Period 91, to be used for period 91
  • Period 92, to be used for period 92
  The VLTI User Manual is to be used in addition to the MIDI manual for VLTI aspects and limits common to all instruments:
  • VLTI User Manual for Period 92
• MIDI Template Manual
  Detailed information on the acquisition, observation, and calibration templates.
  • Period 88.
  • Period 89.
  • Period 90.
  • Period 91.
• MIDI Calibration Plan
  Detailed information on the calibration plan of MIDI observations.
  • Period 87, to be used for Periods 81 to 90 (Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2013).
• MIDI Data Reduction Cookbook
  Useful information about how to reduce the MIDI data, where to find a data reduction software, etc...
  • Period 81 and following.