Instrumentation activities at Paranal Observatory

Jean Gabriel Cuby; Pablo Barriga; Remi Cabanac; Roberto Castillo; Isabelle Gavignaud; Gordon Gillet; Nicolas Haddad; Mario Kiekebusch; Massimiliano Marchesi; Pedro Mardones; Miguel Riquelme; Pascal Robert; Sylvain Rondi

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Instrumentation activities at Paranal Observatory

Jean Gabriel Cuby, Pablo Barriga, Remi Cabanac, Roberto Castillo, Isabelle Gavignaud, Gordon Gillet, Nicolas Haddad, Mario Kiekebusch, Massimiliano Marchesi, Pedro Mardones, Miguel Riquelme, Pascal Robert, Sylvain Rondi

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This paper presents miscellaneous activities related to instrumentation taking place at Paranal Observatory. The number of instruments and / or facilities that will eventually equip the Observatory (VLT, VLTI, VST, VISTA) is about 20. An adequate organization (human and technical) is required to ensure configuration control and efficient preventive and corrective maintenance (hardware and software). Monitoring instrument performance is a key feature to guarantee success of operations and minimize technical downtime. Some observational projects are carried out with the aim of characterizing the Paranal sky conditions in the visible and the IR, in emission and absorption. Efforts are being developed to monitor, characterize and archive the transparency conditions at night.

Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	35-45
Número de páginas	11
Publicación	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volumen	4844
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460677
Estado	Publicada - 2002

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