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The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 23-26 January 2007

  • A reference point for all future efforts to improve instrument calibration procedures in astronomy

Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (82 papers)

  1. Session 3: Near-IR and mid-IR Spectro-Imagers

    1. Some (Little) Thing(s) about VISIR

      • E. Pantin, L. Vanzi, U. Weilenmann
      Pages 119-129
    2. Calibrating Mid-Infrared Standard Stars

      • D. Dobrzycka, L. Vanzi
      Pages 139-144
    3. ISAAC LW Telluric Line Atlas

      • C. Papadaki, L. Schmidtobreick, W. Hummel, A. Smette
      Pages 149-152
    4. Building-Up a Database of Spectro-Photometric Standard Stars from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared

      • J. Vernet, F. Kerber, S. D’Odorico, R. Bohlin, V. Ivanov, C. Lidman et al.
      Pages 153-156
  2. Session 4: Data Flow and Data Reduction Software

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. The VLT Data Flow System

      • M. Peron
      Pages 159-167
    3. ESO Reflex: A Graphical Workflow Engine for Running Recipes

      • R. N. Hook, M. Romaniello, M. Ullgrén, P. Järveläinen, S. Maisala, T. Oittinen et al.
      Pages 169-175
    4. The End-to-End Pipeline for HST Slitless Spectra PHLAG

      • M. Kümmel, R. Albrecht, R. Fosbury, W. Freudling, J. Haase, R. N. Hook et al.
      Pages 185-190
    5. A Bottom-Up Approach to Spectroscopic Data Reduction

      • C. Izzo, Y. Jung, P. Ballester
      Pages 191-197
    6. Model Based Instrument Calibration

      • P. Bristow, F. Kerber, M.R. Rosa
      Pages 199-206
    7. Efits: A New Efficient and Flexible FITS Library

      • A. Grado, M. Pavlov, L. Limatola
      Pages 217-220
    8. Error Propagation in the X-shooter Pipeline

      • M. Horrobin, P. Goldoni, F. Royer, P. François, G. Blanc, J. Vernet et al.
      Pages 221-223
    9. The CRIRES Data Reduction Challenges

      • Y. Jung, P. Bristow
      Pages 225-228
    10. MUSE: Design and Status of the Data Reduction Pipeline

      • P. Weilbacher, J. Gerssen, M. M. Roth, P. Böhm, The MUSE Team
      Pages 233-236
  3. Session 5: Adaptive Optics Instruments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

About this book

The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration workshop brought together more than 120 participants with the objective to a) foster the sharing of information, experience and techniques between observers, instrument developers and instrument operation teams, b) review the actual precision and limitations of the applied instrument calibration plans, and c) collect the current and future requirements by the ESO users.

These present proceedings include the majority of the workshop’s contributions and document the status quo of instrument calibration at ESO in large detail. Topics covered are: Optical Spectro-Imagers, Optical Multi-Object Spectrographs, NIR and MIR Spectro-Imagers, High-Resolution Spectrographs, Integral Field Spectrographs, Adaptive Optics Instruments, Polarimetric Instruments, Wide Field Imagers, Interferometric Instruments as well as other crucial aspects such as data flow, quality control, data reduction software and atmospheric effects.

It was stated in the workshop that “calibration is a life-long learning process”'. In this sense, this book will be a reference point for all future efforts to improve instrument calibration procedures in astronomy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Southern Observatory (ESO) Alonso de Cordova 3107, Santiago 19, Chile

    Andreas Kaufer

  • European Southern Observatory (ESO), 85748 Garching, Germany

    Florian Kerber

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