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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2014-04-24T10:30:00+01:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:MUSE a new instrument at Paranal
DESCRIPTION:MUSE a new instrument at Paranal\nMr. Antonio Manescau\n\nMUSE 
 (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) is a         2nd generation Integral F
 ield facility for the VLT. With a field         of view of 1x1 arcmin, fin
 e sampling, intermediate spectral         resolution and large spectral co
 verage in the visible, it uses a         complex image slicer, twenty-four
  parallel spectrographs and a         large detector area. In addition, MU
 SE is conceived to work         assisted by the Adaptive Optics Facility (
 AOF), which will         enhance notably its performance. MUSE is the resu
 lt of ten years         of design and development by the MUSE consortium &
 mdash; headed by the         Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, Fr
 ance and the         partner institutes Leibniz-Institut für Astrophy
 sik Potsdam         (AIP, Germany),  Institut für Astrophysik G&
 ouml;ttingen (IAG,         Germany),  Institute for Astronomy ETH Zur
 ich (Switzerland),         L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Pla
 nétologie (IRAP,         France), Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor 
 de Astronomie (NOVA,         the Netherlands) and ESO. MUSE has been succe
 ssfully installed on ESO’s Very Large         Telescope (VLT). In th
 is talk it will be presented the         instrument, its design and challe
 nges, the integration (both in         Europe and Paranal), the first ligh
 t and first commissioning         results.
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