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Part I
Phase 1 Instructions
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ESO Proposals Invited
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) invites proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 97 (1 April 2016 – 30 September 2016). The following instruments are
offered in this period:
La Silla
EFOSC2 (ESO Faint Object Spectrograph 2)
HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher)
SofI (Son of ISAAC)
Paranal
AMBER (Near-infrared interferometric instrument)
FLAMES (Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph)
FORS2 (FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2)
HAWK-I (High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager)
KMOS (K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph)
MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer)
NACO (NAOS-CONICA: High Resolution NIR Camera and Spectrograph)
OMEGACAM (Wide Field Imager for the VST at Paranal)
PIONIER (Precision Integrated-Optics Near-infrared Imaging ExpeRiment)
SINFONI (Spectrograph for INtegral Field Obs. in the NIr)
SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch)
UVES (UV–Visual Échelle Spectrograph)
VIMOS (Visual Multi-Object Spectrograph)
VIRCAM (VISTA InfraRed CAMera)
VISIR (VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid Infra Red)
XSHOOTER (UV–Visual–NIR medium resolution échelle spectrograph)
Chajnantor
LABOCA (Large Apex BOlometer CAmera)
SHFI (Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument)
ARTEMIS (Architectures de bolomètres pour des Télescopes à grand champ de vue dans
le domaine sub-Millimétrique au Sol)
FLASH (First Light APEX Submillimeter Heterodyne receiver)
SEPIA (Swedish ESO PI receiver for APEX)
Further information can be found via the Phase 1 webpage. Details on the instruments and ESO
facilities offered in Period 97 can be found on the La Silla Paranal Observatory Call for Proposals
webpage. The main characteristics of all Period 97 instruments offered at La Silla, Paranal and
Chajnantor are described in the Instrument summary table. Further useful information can be
accessed from the Phase 1 Important Links webpage (e.g., telescope pressure and definitions of
observing constraints).
Any updates after the release of this Call will be listed on the Late Breaking News webpage.
The ESO proposal submission deadline is:
1 October 2015,
12:00 noon Central European Summer Time.