1. Instruments we may need or may not

2. Armagh, 19 February 2008 This session:  MuSiCoS, Narval & ESPaDONs archive (James)  DAO (Jason)  Archive observations (Luca)

3. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Part I The most obvious choices  Optical spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry

4. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectropolarimetry Narval @ Pic-du-Midi

5. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectropolarimetry ESPaDONs @ CHFT

6. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectropolarimetry DAO

7. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectropolarimetry HARPS @ ESO?

8. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Low resolution spectropolarimetry (FORS1/2 @ ESO)

9. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Low resolution spectropolarimetry

10. Armagh, 19 February 2008 V/I = -4.67 x 10 –13 2 dI/d 1/I + V 0 /I 0 = -9000 +/- 150 G

11. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Low resolution spectropolarimetry (ISIS @ WHT)

12. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Low resolution spectropolarimetry RSS @ SALT?

13. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Low res. spectropolarimetry: Advantages and drawbacks  Extremely efficient on hot and fast rotating stars  No additional use other than for field determinations

14. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectroscopy: Sophie@Haute-Provence

15. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectroscopy: FIES @ NOT

16. Armagh, 19 February 2008 UCLES@AAT

17. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution spectroscopy (UVES @ VLT)

18. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High/mid-to-low resolution multi- object spectroscopy: FLAMES@VLT

19. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High/mid-to-low resolution multi- object spectroscopy: FLAMES@VLT

20. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High/mid-to-low resolution multi- object spectroscopy: FLAMES@VLT

21. Armagh, 19 February 2008 FLAMES Fiber Large Array Multi-Element Spectrograph 132 GIRAFFE Medusa buttons 30 GIRAFFE IFU buttons 8 UVES buttons

22. Armagh, 19 February 2008 FLAMES Fiber Large Array Multi-Element Spectrograph NAME min (Ǻ) min (Ǻ) max (Ǻ) max (Ǻ)  (Ǻ) (Ǻ) (Ǻ) (Ǻ)R H 379.03700386716722500 H3953854404919519600 …………… H627.36120640528522500 …………… H920.58960941945919000 FLAMES high resolution settings

23. Armagh, 19 February 2008 FLAMES Fiber Large Array Multi-Element Spectrograph NAME min (Ǻ) min (Ǻ) max (Ǻ) max (Ǻ)  (Ǻ) (Ǻ) (Ǻ) (Ǻ)R L385.7362040814618000 L427.2396445676036400 …………… L614.2643871487468600 …………… L881.78206940011906500 FLAMES low resolution settings

24. Armagh, 19 February 2008 From less obvious to exotic  Photometry  Multi-objects vs. 3D spectroscopy  IR Imaging and spectroscopy  Interferometry  Radio  X-rays, UV  Astrometry (Gaia)

25. Armagh, 19 February 2008 REM

26. Armagh, 19 February 2008 3-D spectroscopy  Are we interested?

27. Armagh, 19 February 2008 NIR high resolution spectroscopy: CRIRES @ VLT  R=100,000  Spectral coverage = 5 nm!

28. Armagh, 19 February 2008 Future instruments: SPIROU@CHFT  Spectral coverage: 0.9 to 2.5  m  Spectral resolution: R=50,000  15% throughput  S/N ratio = 100 with 1h exp on a J=13 star  Commissioning on 2013

29. Armagh, 19 February 2008 GIANO @ TNG  Similar to Spirou  Commissioning in 2009  Attached at the Nasmith

30. Armagh, 19 February 2008 High resolution NIR imaging NACO@VLT  FWHM < 0.05” in JHK