Commissioning of the NACO Fabry-Perot interferometer at the VLT

Markus Hartung; Chris Lidman; Nancy Ageorges; Olivier Marco; Markus E. Kasper; Yann Clenet

doi:10.1117/12.552048

30 September 2004 Commissioning of the NACO Fabry-Perot interferometer at the VLT

Markus Hartung, Chris Lidman, Nancy Ageorges, Olivier Marco, Markus E. Kasper, Yann Clenet

Proceedings Volume 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552048
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

In October 2002 the VLT Adaptive Optics (AO) facility instrument NAOS-CONICA (NACO) was offered for the first time to the astronomical community and has been operated successfully ever since. NACO is capable of performing AO assisted imaging, spectroscopy, polarimetry, and coronography. One exciting and unique observing capability of NACO is its cold tunable Fabry-Perot Interferometer, that will be offered in October 2004. The 3-dimensional structure analysis of extended objects, such as planetary nebulae, is one interesting application of this device that combines imaging and medium resolution spectroscopy in the K-band. Using VLT day and night time commissioning data, the performance of the Fabry-Perot is evaluated and a strategy to handle the complex calibration and data reduction has been developed.

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Markus Hartung, Chris Lidman, Nancy Ageorges, Olivier Marco, Markus E. Kasper, and Yann Clenet "Commissioning of the NACO Fabry-Perot interferometer at the VLT", Proc. SPIE 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, (30 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552048

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