The ESO Paranal instrumentation program

Luca Pasquini

doi:10.1117/12.2231869

3 August 2016 The ESO Paranal instrumentation program

Luca Pasquini

Proceedings Volume 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI; 990802 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231869
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Paranal Instrumentation Programme is responsible for planning and delivering the instruments and the associated infrastructure needed to keep the VLT and La Silla Observatories at the forefront of ground-based astronomy. The VLT second generation instruments KMOS, MUSE and SPHERE have been delivered and are in operations, GRAVITY is under commissioning at the renewed VLTI facility. The Adapative Optics Facility is moving towards completion, as well as the high resolution spectrograph ESPRESSO and the VLTI second generation instrument MATISSE. The mid-IR imager and spectrograph VISIR has been upgraded, and a major upgrade of the CRIRES spectrograph is under way. Finally, two new Multi Object Spectrographs projects have started, one for the VLT (MOONS), one for the 4M VISTA telescope (4MOST), and two new instruments for La Silla, (SOXS and NIRPS) fully funded by the community, are being agreed. The Programme follows a roadmap that foresees one new instrument/project or one upgrade starting every year. Active management, cost to completion and risk policy are in place.

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Luca Pasquini "The ESO Paranal instrumentation program", Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 990802 (3 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231869

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