La Silla Instrument Operation Teams
The main email address
The main E-mail address to contact SciOps is: lasilla [at] eso.org. This email address is permanently manned, and your email will be forwarded to the relevant group or person.
Important Contacts
Instrument SciOps Safety Officer | Manuel Pizarro |
SciOps Remedy Friends | Ariel Sanchez, Monica Castillo |
SciOps Documentation Office | Francisco Labrana |
Instrument Operation Teams
instrument specific questions the "Instrument Operation Team" (IOT) can be directly contacted. The IOTs are composed of the first and second Instrument Scientist, the System Engineer, and the Instrument Friend. Instrument Scientists and Instrument Friends are typically astronomers and TIOs (Telescope and Instrument Operators) from SciOps. The system engineer is a senior engineer from the engineering department.
Instrument |
Instrument Scientist |
System Engineer |
Instrument Friend |
NTT | N/A | Jorge Vilaza | Angelica Leon |
EFOSC2 | Linda Schmidtobreick | Andres Gonzalez | Francisco Caceres |
SofI | Valentin Ivanov | Peter Sinclaire |
Manuel Pizarro |
3.6m | N/A |
Jorge Vilaza | Eduardo Matamoros |
HARPS | Claudio Melo | Peter Sinclaire | Javier Alarcon |
2.2m | N/A | Agustin Macchino | Francisco Labrana |
GROND | Peter Sinclaire | Duncan Castex | |
FEROS | Ivo Saviane | Peter Sinclaire | Monica Castillo |
WFI | Fernando Selman |
Agustin Macchino | Pablo Arias |
DIMM | N/A | Jorge Vilaza (s/w: Alex Segovia) |
Ariel Sanchez |