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Title:
MIDI scientific and technical observing modes
Authors:
Bakker, Eric J.; Leinert, Christoph; Jaffe, Walter; Graser, Uwe; Percheron, Isabelle; Chesneau, Olivier; Meisner, Jeffrey A.; Cotton, Bill; de Jong, Jeroen; Pel, Jan-Willem; Glazenborg-Kluttig, Annelie W.; Perrin, Guy S.; Przygodda, Frank
Affiliation:
AA(Leiden Observatory/Univ. Leiden (Netherlands)), AB(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (Germany)), AC(Leiden Observatory/Univ. Leiden (Netherlands)), AD(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (Germany)), AE(Leiden Observatory/Univ. Leiden (Netherlands)), AF(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (Germany)), AG(Leiden Observatory/Univ. Leiden (Netherlands)), AH(NRAO (USA)), AI(Leiden Observatory/Univ. Leiden (Netherlands)), AJ(ASTRON (Netherlands) and Kapteyn Institute/Groningen Univ. (Netherlands)), AK(ASTRON (Netherlands)), AL(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AM(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (Germany))
Journal:
Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II. Edited by Wesley A. Traub . Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4838, pp. 905-916 (2003). (SPIE Homepage)
Publication Date:
02/2003
Origin:
SPIE
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2003: SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Bibliographic Code:
2003SPIE.4838..905B

Abstract

The first science instrument for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), the Mid-infrared instrument MIDI, will be commissioned in November 2002 with anticipated first fringe during that commissioning run on the 40-cm Siderostats and the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes. In this paper we describe scientific and technical observing modes (also referred to as observation procedures) developed for MIDI and discuss in detail how an observing run with the instrument is planned. MIDI is built by a consortium lead by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA Heidelberg), with contributions from among others ASTRON (Dwingeloo, The Netherlands), Leiden Observatory, University of Amsterdam, Paris Observatory, University of Groningen, the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenpysik at Freiburg, Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, and the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur.