UVES Team members and project milestones
The table below summarizes the names of some of the people involved in the development and maintenance of UVES from the beginning to the present:
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Built by:
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ESO (responsible: H. Dekker)
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Project Scientist:
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Paranal Instrument Scientists:
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STC recommendation:
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May 1992
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Installation:
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Nasmyth B Focus UT2 (Kueyen) in August 1999
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Status:
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First light achieved September 27th, 1999
Commissioning completed December 21st, 1999 Released to the community: April 1st, 2000 |
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Instrument Science Team:
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B. Gustaffson (Uppsala), H. Hensberge (Brussels), P. Molaro (Trieste), P. Nissen (Aarhus)
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UVES main science objectives:
- Structure, physical conditions and abundances of interstellar and intergalactic gas at early epochs from the absorption spectra of high-redshift QSOs
- Kinematics of gas and stars in galactic nuclei
- Kinematics and mass distributions of star clusters
- Composition, kinematics and physical conditions of the interstellar medium in the Galaxy and in nearby systems
- Chemical composition and atmospheric models of galactic and extragalactic stars
- Substellar companions of nearby stars (high-precision radial velocity studies over long time scales)
- Stellar oscillations