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.
  • Period 89, for P89 phase I and II
  • Period 88, for P88 phase I and II
  • Period 87, for P87 phase I and II
  • Period 86, for P86 phase I and II

• 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.

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