X-shooter Phase 2 Users Workshop | Vincenzo Mainieri (USD)
Single target medium resolution (R= ) spectrograph Covers a wide wavelength range ( nm) Consists of 3 arms, each a cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph UVB, covering the wavelength range nm VIS, covering the wavelength range nm NIR, covering the wavelength range nm Phase 2 Users Workshop | P89: 132 proposal (second only to FORS2) Pressure factor ~ 4 (highest at VLT) X-shooter
Phase 2 Users Workshop | The light path
Observing with X-shooter Phase 2 Users Workshop | Two observing modes: SLIT and IFU spectroscopy All X-shooter OBs are composed of an acquisition template followed by one or several science templates
Target acquisition Phase 2 Users Workshop | A good finding chart! Target fainter than mag=21-22 Blind offsets PA
Phase 2 Users Workshop | NIR DIT (>300s): 480, 600, 900, 1200 s Spectroscopic observations
Phase 2 Users Workshop | Low background in J and H !!! 0.6” & 0.9” slits with K band blocking filter P89
More information Phase 2 Users Workshop | X-shooter User Manual Instrument News web-page … and tutorial this afternoon.