NaCo Tools and Tips

This page contains all tools and tips needed to prepare efficiently NaCo observations.

NaCo-specific tools

Tools and information to prepare and execute NaCo observations.

• Preparation Software. This tool is used to predict the best AO configuration to be used for your observations with NaCo. Its use is compulsory to prepare the OBs.
• Photometric Standards used for NaCo calibrations.
• NEW Filter shifts = measures taken with the CONICA pinhole array & different filters.
• List of identified Argon lines for CONICA spectroscopic calibrations. One can also use the ISAAC list.
• Image library showing examples of Fabry Perot scans, SDI , coronographic and polarimetric images.
• TEMPORARY - Estimating S/N ratios for spectroscopy (complements to ETC).

• Zero Points trend analysis from the daily health check monitor.
• Calibration reference frames. This page contains exemples of what the offered data calibration should look like.
• Quality Control and Data Flow Operations. To learn how your data are controlled and packed.

Generic Tools and information

Some information and tools that are generic to all instruments.

• ETC, Exposure Time Calculators
• Proposal Preparation and Submission
• Preparation of Phase 2 material for service

Contributed Papers Library

• Suppressing Speckle Noise for Simultaneous Differential Extrasolar Planet Imaging (SDI) at the VLT and MMT
  by B. A. Biller et al. in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science and Techniques, Proceedings IAU Colloquium No. 200, 2005.
• Contrast Limits with the Simultaneous Differential Extrasolar Planet Imager (SDI) at the VLT and MMT
  by B.A. Biller et. al in Advances in Adaptive Optics II, edited by Brent L. Ellerbroek, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6272., 2006.