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The research and Training Network Euro3D at ESO

What is Euro3D?
Integral Field Units at ESO
Who is involved in Euro3D at ESO?
Job opportunities

What is Euro3D?

Euro3D is a Research Training Network (RTN) sponsored by the European Commission. Its aim is to promote Integral Field Spectroscopy for Astronomy in Europe.

The RTN includes 11 European institutes involved in Integral Field Spectroscopy development and research. The immediate goals are to help European Astronomy to access integral field spectroscopy:

by defining a common data format into which the data of all instruments will be ported
by providing a common software for scientific analysis of integral field data
by spreading knowledge through workshops and schools
by fostering scientific exploitation of 3D data to increase its impact

For more informations on its activities, members, etc please refer to the Euro3D RTN homepage.

Integral Field Units at ESO

The ESO Paranal observatory supports a number of instruments with integral field units. A schematic summary and comparison (resolution, field size) is given in the image below.

In Summary:

FLAMES: within FLAMES, the GIRAFFE spectrograph offers a spectral resolution between 7500 and 25000 over the otical wavelength range 370-900nm. In addition to its 130 deployable fibers, it also hosts 12 deployable integral field units (of 20 microlenses each, forming a 3" aperture on the sky), as well as one integral field unit of 22 by 14 microlenses (with two scales giving 17"x7" or 6.6"x4.2" on the sky).
VIMOS: includes an IFU that works in the optical (350m-900nm) at a spectral resolution between 200 and 2500. The lenslet array is composed by 80x80 elements sampling either at 0.67"/pix or 0.33"/pix, 54"x54" or 27"x27" on the sky respectively.
SINFONI: is a near-infrared integral field spectrograph (1.0-2.5 microns) support by Adaptive Optics. Its spectral resolution ranges from 1000 to 3000, and its 32x32 spatial pixels (of variable scales 250/100/25 mas/pix) cover a field of view of 8"x8" or 3"x3" or 0.8"x0.8" on the sky.
NIRMOS: is planned to be the near-infrared (up to H band) counter-part of VIMOS.

Who is involved in Euro3D at ESO?

Administrative Contact: Jeremy Walsh, jwalsh@eso.org
Team Leader: Markus Kissler-Patig, mkissler@eso.org

Alphabetical list of team members:

Name	Function
Nicolas Cretton	Post-doctoral Researcher
Nicolas Devillard	Software Engineer
Markus Kissler-Patig	Instrument Scientist
Harald Kuntschner	Post-doctoral Researcher
Guy Monnet	Head of Instrumention
Alan Moorwood	Head of IR Instrument Group
Ralf Palsa	Software Engineer
Luca Pasquini	Instrument Scientist
Emanuela Pompei	Operations Scientist
Lowell Tacconi-Garman	Support Astronomer
Jeremy Walsh	Instrument Scientist

Job opportunities in integral field spectroscopy

For job opportunites within the Euro3D RTN, please refer to our Euro3D RTN homepage. Whilst ESO does not offer a postdoctoral position financed by the Euro3D RTN, there are opportunities to work at the PhD and Post-Doc level on 3D spectroscopy in the regular programmes for:

Studentship - for students already registed for a PhD at a teaching institution, a 1 to 2 year stay at ESO is available. A local supervisor from the list above can be chosen (Annual deadline: June 15)
Fellowship - 2 to 4 year post-doctoral positions. (Deadline: October 15)