VIMOS Documentation

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

All the manuals are in Adobe's Acrobat format.

  • VIMOS User's Manual
    All the informations about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics
    as well as the informations on the acquisition, observation and nighttime calibrations templates.

  • VIMOS Pipeline User Manual
    Detailed information on how to reduce data obtained with VIMOS.
    • Version 6.1 of the pipeline manual, VLT-MAN-ESO-19500-3355, for version 2.5.2 of the pipeline.
    • The static calibration database is found here.
    • The demo dataset (all 1.7Gs of it) are found here.
    • The pipeline itself can be found at this page.
    • The data reduction cookbook (VLT-MAN-ESO-14600-4033) is available here.