The second Fast Track Channel (FTC) call for Period 117 will be released on Wednesday, 18 November 2026. This FTC 117B call will cover the last two months of Period 117 (1 March 2027 - 30 April 2027). The proposal submission deadline is scheduled for Wednesday, 16 December 2026. More information on the available time per telescope, as well as the requirements and restrictions for submitting a proposal via this channel, will be provided via the Fast Track Channel webpage once the call is released.

This first release of CORALIE data contains the spectra of the historical radial-velocity planet-search programme carried out by the Geneva Observatory exoplanet team with the CORALIE spectrograph on the Euler 1.2m telescope at La Silla. CORALIE covers 390 to 690 nm at a resolving power of R ≈ 60000. Fibre A is placed on the target, while fibre B records a simultaneous ThAr (before June 2015) or Fabry-Perot reference, or the sky. Instrument upgrades in 2007 and 2014 introduced radial-velocity zero-point offsets, so the release contains spectra from three instrument versions (CORALIE98, CORALIE07 and CORALIE14) and stops at the 2024 intervention.

The goal of the observing programme 0113.C-2186(A), PI A. Stavros, is to better understand the Low-Ionization Structures (LISs) commonly found in Planetary nebulae (PNe). This project uses X-shooter to obtain the first UV-to-NIR spectra from a sample of 12 LISs with different shapes and types in 9 PNe with a variety of morphologies, ages and stellar parameters.

This data release provides FLAMES/UVES spectra observed as part of the ESO program 112.25ES.001 (P.I. P. Kervella) with the main scientific goal of estimating interstellar extinction of 16 Galactic Cepheid variable stars. For this purpose, neighbouring field stars of the Cepheids were observed, queried from the Gaia Data Release 3 catalog, with the FLAMES multi-object spectrograph. The instrument setup was such that, on average, 115 field stars were observed with the GIRAFFE spectrograph in MEDUSA mode and 2-7 field stars with the UVES spectrograph in the Red Arm mode. This release covers only the UVES data, as the ESO automatic reduction process covered the GIRAFFE spectra, which are available for download from the ESO Science Portal. The fibers fed to UVES have a diameter of 1 arcsec, and the cross-dispersed echelle spectroscopy provides a spectral resolving power of R=47,000.

The aim of the Expanding Horizons process is for ESO to gather input from the community to decide on its next major programme, following the completion of ELT construction. ESO has now formally opened the call for Letters of Intent (LoI) for the Expanding Horizons process with deadline 1 December 2026. The submission of a LoI is a requirement for submitting a proposal.