Skip to main content
  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2008

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)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (82 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVII
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Detector Monitoring Project

      • P. Amico, P. Ballester, W. Hummel, G. LoCurto, L. Lundin, A. Modigliani et al.
      Pages 11-21
  3. Session 1: Optical Spectro-Imagers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
    2. Photometry with FORS

      • W. Freudling, P. Møller, F. Patat, S. Moehler, M. Romaniello, E. Jehin et al.
      Pages 35-40
    3. Radial Velocity Measurements Based on FORS2 and FLAMES Spectra

      • M. Monelli, M. Nonino, G. Bono, P. François, F. Thévenin, R. Buonanno et al.
      Pages 41-47
    4. The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Instrumental Stability and Detection of Massive Binaries

      • C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon, I. Hunter, T. Augusteijn, S. J. Smartt
      Pages 49-51
    5. VIMOS Total Transmission Profiles for Broad-Band Filters

      • S. Mieske, M. Rejkuba, S. Bagnulo, C. Izzo, G. Marconi
      Pages 53-56
    6. Laboratory Measurements of Calibration Sources for X-Shooter

      • F. Saitta, F. Kerber, P. Bristow, H. Dekker, S. D’Odorico, C. Dupuy et al.
      Pages 57-61
    7. Modelling the Fringing of the FORS2 CCD

      • J. R. Walsh, H. Kuntschner, E. Jehin, A. Kaufer, K. O’Brien, M. Riquelme et al.
      Pages 63-67
  4. Session 2: Optical Multi-object Spectrographs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. IOT Overview: Optical Multi-Object Spectrographs

      • L. Schmidtobreick, S. Bagnulo, E. Jehin, G. Marconi, K. O’Brien, E. Pompei et al.
      Pages 75-80
    3. Quantitative Spectroscopy with FLAMES

      • P. Bonifacio
      Pages 81-86
    4. Calibrating the VIMOS Redshift Survey Data

      • M. Scodeggio, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, M. Fumana, L. Paioro, A. Zanichelli
      Pages 95-105
  5. Session 3: Near-IR and mid-IR Spectro-Imagers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. IOT Overview: IR Instruments

      • E. Mason
      Pages 109-118

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

Bibliographic Information

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access