In this page, you will find all the manuals needed to prepare your observations with PIONIER. Please be sure to download the one corresponding to the period in which the observations will take place.

All the manuals are in Adobe's Acrobat format.

• PIONIER User Manual
  Informations about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics.
  • Periods 96 and 97
    
  • Periods 98 to 102

• The VLTI User Manual is to be used in addition to the PIONIER manual for VLTI aspects and limits common to all instruments:
  • VLTI User Manual for Period 98
  • VLTI user manual for Period 99 (changes for AT baseline, only for GRAVITY)
  • VLTI user manual for Period 100
  • VLTI user manual for Period 101
  • VLTI user manual for Period 102

• PIONIER Template Manual
  Detailed information on the acquisition, observation, and calibration templates.
  
  • Periods 96 and 97
    
  • Period 98 to 101

• PIONIER Data Reduction
  PNDRS download from IPAG

• Data Reduction Frequently Asked Questions
  A list of Frequently Asked Questions on data reduction is also available.