MUSE - Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer

Top view of UT4 with MUSE sitting in the right at the Nasmyth platform. Photo Jean-Louis Lizon

Work based on MUSE observations should cite the paper Bacon et al., SPIE 7735, 7 (2010).

Work using the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) should cite the papers: Strobele et al. (2012), and Arsenault et al. (2008).

Summary

The following items are available on all the MUSE pages, using the bar on the left.

Overview: a short description of the instrument
News: list of changes affecting the instrument and/or its pages.
Instrument Description: all the important parameters of the instrument.
Manuals: links to all the documents related to MUSE.
Tools: a collection of useful tools and informations for preparing and analyzing the MUSE observations.
Instrument Operations Team
Visitor Instructions: Instrument specific instructions for Visiting Astronomers
Science: Science done with MUSE, incl. during Science Verification

Questions related to proposal preparation, service mode, and visitor mode observations should be addressed via the contact form at ESO Operations Helpdesk.
Please, send us your general feedback, comments, suggestions, or report errors and inaccurate statements in the web pages and manuals also via this contact form.

Collaborating institutes	Logo	Collaborating institutes
Leibniz-‐Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam		Development of the Calibration Unit, testing of the preassembled spectrograph -‐ detector units, data reduction software.
Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon		Overall management of the project, image slicer sub system, spectrograph opto-‐mechanical design and integration, data analysis software.
ESO		Detector systems (24 detectors and their cryogenic environment), GALACSI.
ETH – Institute of Astronomy (Zurich)		Procurement of the 24 spectrographs.
Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen		Design, analysis and procurement of the instrument mechanics, the support and handling structures as well as for the optics that apply the field splitting and the relay optics.
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (Toulouse)		Electronic and Software Control of the whole Instrument, Opto-‐mechanical development of the Fore-‐Optics module.
Leiden Observatory		Interface between the MUSE spectrograph and the adaptive optics system, definition of the top-‐level requirements for the adaptive optics system.