SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008

In order to provide as much publicity as possible, ESO makes available author-prepared versions of all contributions (papers, posters, etc.) of ESO authors that were presented at the SPIE conference in Marseille, France, June 23-28, 2008.

The final conference proceedings can be accessed through the SPIE Digital Library.

• De Zeeuw, T.: European Perspectives for ground-based Astronomy (presentation slides)


• 7011-135: Penton, S.V. et al.: Observations of Pt-Ne hollow cathode lamps similar to those used on the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: photometry and vacuum testing
• 7012-19: Gilmozzi, R. & Spyromilio, J.: The 42m European ELT: Status
• 7012-22: Hills, R.E. & Beasley, A.: The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
• 7012-41: Mazzoleni, R., Yaitskova, N. & Noethe, L.: Disentangling between low order telescope aberrations and segmentation errors using a Shack-Harmann sensor
• 7012-43: Surdej, I. et al.: Preliminary results obtained with the ZEUS phasing sensor within the APE experiment
• 7012-59: Dimmler, M., Erm, T., Bauvir, B., Sedghi, B., Bonnet, H., Müller, M. & Wallander, A.: Adaptive Vibration Cancellation on Large Telescopes for Stellar Interferometry
• 7012-61: Sedghi, B., Bauvir, B. & Dimmler, M.: Acceleration feedback control on an AT
• 7012-64: Vernin, J. Munoz-Tunon, C. & Sarazin, M.: E-ELT Site Characterization Status
• 7012-69: Graham, E., Sarazin, M. Kurlanczyk, H., Neun, M. & Maetler, C.: Site selection for ELT using the FriOWL software and global re-analysis climate data
• 7012-72: Lombardi, G., Navarrete, J. & Sarazin, M.: Combining Turbulence Profiles from MASS and SLODAR
• 7012-124: Mazzoleni, R. et al.: Design and performances of the Shack-Hartmann sensor within the active phasing experiment
• 7013-11: Hagenauer, P. et al.: The Very Large Telescope Interferometer: an update
• 7013-14: Le Bouquin, J.-B. et al.: Polar-interferometry: what can be learned from the IOTA/IONIC experiment
• 7013-16: Di Lieto, N.: Adaptive Vibration Cancellation on Large Telescopes for Stellar Interferometry
• 7013-42: Le Bouquin, J.-B. et al.: Fringe-tracking at VLTI: status report
• 7013-160: Hummel, C.: Pipeline reductions of AMBER calibrator data
• 7013-163: Hummel, C.: A status report of the working group on calibrators of IAU Commission 54
• 7013-44: Sahlmann, J. et al.: Results from the VLTI-PRIMA Fringe Tracking Testbed
• 7013-139: Allouche, F., Vakili, F., Glindemann, A., Aristidi, E., Abe, L., Fossat, E. & Douet, R.: IRAN: laboratory test bench for hypertelescope pupil-plane recombination
• 7014-2: Moorwood, A.F.M.: Instrumentation at the ESO VLT
• 7014-30: Kaeufl, H.-U. et al.: CRIRES: Commissioning and First Science Results
• 7014-52: Pasquini, L. et al.: CODEX: the E-ELT high-resolution optical spectrograph.
• 7014-65: Bristow, P., Kerber, F. & Rosa, M.R.: Advanced 2D Spectroscopic Predicted Data
• 7014-73: Pantin, E., Doucet, C., Kaeufl, H.-U. & Sterzik, M.: Lessons learned from VISIR
• 7014-78: Wright, C.M., Siebenmorgen, R., Stecklum, B., Sterzik, M. & Kaeufl, H.-U.: A mid-infrared polarization capability for the ELT
• 7014-82: Pantin, E., Siebenmorgen, R., Cavarroc, C. & Sterzik, M.F.: Direct thermal imaging of circumstellar discs and exo-planets
• 7014-140: Kerber, F., Saitta, F., Bristow, P. & Vernet, J.: Wavelength calibration sources for the near infrared arm of X-shooter
• 7014-139: Bristow, P., Kerber, F., Rosa, M.R., Vernet, J. Goldoni, P., Spano, P. & Modigliani, A.: X-shooter Physical Model
• 7014-209: Aldenius, M., Kerber, F., Bristow, P., Nave, G., Ralchenko, Y. & Sansonetti, C.J.: Wavelength calibration sources for instruments on extremely large telescopes
• 7014-210: Bristow, P. & Kerber, F.: Selection of Wavelength Calibration Features for Automatic Format Recovery in Astronomical Spectrographs
• 7014-222: Puech, M., Rosati, P., Toft, S., Neichel, B. & Fusco, T.: Specifying an MOAO-fed integral field spectrograph for the EELT
• 7014-233: Kerber, F., Bristow, P. & Rosa, M.R.: Calibration and modeling support for instruments at ESO
• 7014-235: Buckley, D.A.H., Brink, J.D., Loaring, N.S., Swat, A. & Worters, H.L.: The Southern African Large Telescope calibration system
• 7015-14: Marchetti, E. et al.: MAD on-sky results in Star Oriented Modem
• 7015-63: Kasper, M.E. et al.: EPICS, the exoplanet imager for the E-ELT
• 7015-75: Arsenault, R. et al.: ESO Adaptive Optics Facility
• 7015-80: Clenet, U., Lidman, C., Gendron, E., Rousset, G., Fusco, T., Kornweibel, N., Kasper, M. & Ageorges, N.: Tests of the PSF reconstruction algorithm for NACO/VLT
• 7015-170: Kolb, J.: Turbulence characterization at the Nasmyth focal plane of the VLT Melipal [poster]
• 7015-259: Clare, R.M., Le Louarn, M., Oberti, S. & Garcia-Rissman, A.: Adaptive Optics Simulations for the European Extremely Large Telescope
• 7015-263: Moussaoui, N., Holzloehner, R., Hackenberg, W. & Bonaccini Calia, D.: Effect of the geomagnetic field on the intensity of sodium laser guide stars
• 7016-21: Suchar, D., Lockhart, J.S. & Burrows, A.: Operating a Petabyte Class Archive at ESO
• 7016-24: Hanuschik, R.W., Hummer, W., Neeser, M. & Wolff, B.: Scoring - a novel approach towards automated and reliable certification of pipeline products [.ppt]
• 7016-25: Hummel, W., de Bilbao, L., Modigliani, A., Lundin, L., Amico, P., Ballester, P., LoCurto, G. & Vanzi, L.: Detector Monitoring ans part of VLT Science and Dataflow Operations
• 7016-27: Wolff, B., Hanuschik, R.W., Hummel, W. & Neeser, M.: Solutions for Quality Control of multi-detector instruments and their application to CRIRES and VIMOS
• 7016-34: Primas, F., Marteau, S. & Patat, F.: Users' feedback: what is "good enough" ?
• 7016-35: Chavan, A.M., Tacconi-Garman, L.E., Peron, M., Sogni, F., Dorigo, D., Nass, P., Fourniol, N., Sforna, D., Haggouchi, K. & Dolensky, M.: ESO's User Portal: Lessons Learned [.pps]
• 7016-36: Andreani, P. & Zwaan, M.: European ALMA operations: the interaction with and support to the users
• 7016-47: Vera, I., Dobrzycki, A., Chavan, A.M., Nass, P. & Lockhart, J.S.: ESO scalable architecture for operational databases [poster]
• 7016-52: Vernet, J. et al.: Building up a database of spectro-photometric standard stars from the UV to the near-IR: a status report
• 7016-53: Dobrzycka, D., Vanzi, L., Lundin, L., Kaeufl, H.U. & Siebenmorgen, R.: New Measures in Controlling Quality of VLT VISIR
• 7016-53: Dobrzycka, D., Vanzi, L., Lundin, L., Kaeufl, H.U. & Siebenmorgen, R.: New Measures in Controlling Quality of VLT VISIR
• 7016-63: Dumke, Michael: Service observing management at the APEX telescope
• 7016-80: Comeron, F., Filippi, G. & Emerson, J.P.: A fast link with Paranal: new operational opportunities
• 7017-15: Rykaczewski, H.: Organisation and Management of the ALMA Project
• 7017-55: Karban, R., Zamparelli, M., Bauvir, B., Koehler, B., Noethe, L. & Balestra, A.: Exploring model-based engineering for large telescopes: getting started with descriptive models
• 7018-40: O'Donoghue, D.E. et al.: The image quality of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
• 7018-67: Cunningham, C., Hastings, P., Kerber, F., Montgomery, D., Venema, L. & Vola, P.: Smart technologies to meet extreme instrument stability requirements
• 7019-35: Chiozzi, G., Bridger, A., Gillies, K., Goodrich, B. Johnson, J., McCann, K., Schumacher, G. & Wampler, S.: Enabling Technologies and Constraints for Software Sharing in Large Astronomy Projects
• 7019-74: Andolfato, L. & Karban, R.: Workstation Software Framework [poster]
• 7019-108: Pozna, E., Zins, G., Santin, P. & Beard, S.: A common framework for the observation software of astronomical instruments at ESO
• 7021-29: Dorn, R.J. et al.: Evaluation of a Teledyne SIDECAR ASIC at cryogenic temperature using a visible hybrid H2RG focal plane array in 32 channel readout mode
• 7021-35: Mehrgan, L.H., Eschbaumer, S., Finger, G., Meyer, M. & Stegmeyer, J.: Performance and evaluation of the infrared AO sensor CALICO