SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016

In order to make ESO-authored SPIE manuscripts easily retrievable, we provide access to the manuscripts and posters presented at the SPIE conference on Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation held in Edinburgh, UK, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

The final conference proceedings can be accessed through the SPIE Digital Library.


9906-31: Roberto Tamai, Michele Cirasuolo, Juan Carlos González, Bertrand Koehler, Mauro Tuti: The E-ELT program status
9906-32: Peter Gray, Emanuela Ciattaglia, Christophe Dupuy, Fernando Gago, Stephane Guisard, Juan Marrero, Rob Ridings, Andy Wright: E-ELT Assembly, Integration & Technical Commissioning [Presentation slides]
9906-102: B. Sedghi, M. Dimmler, M. Müller, and N. Kornweibel: Improving E-ELT M1 prototype hard position actuators with active damping
9906-123: Luca Pasquini, B. Delabre, R. Ellis, T. de Zeeuw: New telescope designs suitable for massively-multiplexed spectroscopy
9906-171: Christian Stephan, Stephane Guisard, Pierre Bourget: Long-term Performance of the VLT UT Active Optics System
9906-200: G. Filippi, R. Tamai, D. Kalaitzoglou, W. Wild, A. Delorme, D. Rioseco: A new mix of power for the ESO installations in Chile: greener, more reliable, cheaper [Poster]
9906-205: B. Leibundgut, J.-P. Berger: Scientific Planning for the VLT and VLTI
9906-247: R. Holzlöhner, S. Taubenberger, A. P. Rakich, L. Noethe, P. Schipani and K. Kuijken: Focal-plane Wavefront Sensing for Active Optics in the VST Based on an Analytical Optical Aberration Model

9907-6: F. Eisenhauer et al.: First light for GRAVITY
9907-25: Christian A. Hummel, Markus Schöller, Gilles Duvert, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, Swetlana Hubrig: The orbit of the Mercury-Manganese binary 41 Eridani
9907-60: P. Bourget, G. Zins, S. Guieu, N, Schuhler, P. Haguenauer, S. Poupar, J.P. Berger, F. Gonté, J.B. Lebouquin, T. Rivinius, A. Mérand, L. Jocou: How to create space inside the VLTI: PIONIER 3D project
9907-69: Frederic Gonte, Reinhold Dorn et al.: VLT Interferometer upgrade for the 2nd generation of interferometric instruments
9907-70: Frederic Gonte, Reinhold Dorn et al.: NAOMI: a low-order adaptive optics system for the VLT Interferometer
9907-102: Anthony C. Cheetham; Julien Girard; Sylvestre Lacour; Guillaume Schworer; Xavier Haubois; Jean-Luc Beuzit:
Sparse aperture masking with SPHERE
9907-103: Fabien Patru; Jacopo Antichi; Patrick Rabou; Enrico Giro; Jacopo Farinato; Raffaele Gratton; Daniele Vassallo; Christophe Verinaud; Denis Mourard; Julien Girard: Interferometric direct imaging properties of a BIGRE-DAM device in laboratory
9907-120
: Christian A. Hummel, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, and Antoine Merand: Interferometric field of view measurements at the VLTI
9907-135: Henri M.J. Boffin: An interferometric view of binary stars

9908-01: Luca Pasquini: The ESO Paranal Instrumentation Programme
9908-14: (ESO first author)
9908-17: Reinhold J Dorn, Roman Follert, Paul Bristow, Claudio Cumani, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Jason Grunhut, Andreas Haimerl, Artie Hatzes, Ulrike Heiter, Renate Hinterschuster, Derek J Ives, Yves Jung, Florian Kerber, Barbara Klein, Alexis Lavaila, Jean Louis Lizon, Tom Löwinger, Ignacio Molina-Conde, Belinda Nicholson, Thomas Marquart, Ernesto Olivac Livia Origlia, Luca Pasquini, Jérôme Paufique, Nikolai Piskunov, Ansgar Reiners, Ulf Seemann, Jörg Stegmeier, Eric Stempels and Sebastien Tordo: The "+" for CRIRES: enabling better science at infrared wavelength and high spectral resolution at the ESO VLT
9908-25: Olivier Absil; Dimitri Mawet; Mikael Karlsson; Brunella Carlomagno; Valentin Christiaens; Denis Defrère; Christian Delacroix; Bruno Femenía Castella; Pontus Forsberg; Julien Girard; Carlos A. Gómez González; Serge Habraken; Philip M. Hinz; Elsa Huby; Aïssa Jolivet; Keith Matthews; Julien Milli; Gilles Orban de Xivry; Eric Pantin; Pierre Piron; Maddalena Reggiani; Garreth J. Ruane; Gene Serabyn; Jean Surdej; Konrad R. W. Tristram; Ernesto Vargas Catalán; Olivier Wertz; Peter Wizinowich:
Three years of harvest with the vector vortex coronagraph in the thermal infrared
9908-127: Kjetil Dohlen; Arthur Vigan; David Mouillet; François Wildi; Jean-François Sauvage; Thierry Fusco; Jean-Luc Beuzit; Pascal Puget; David Le Mignant; Ronald Roelfsema; Johan Pragt; Hans Martin Schmid; Raffaele Gratton; Dino Mesa; Riccardo Claudi; Maud Langlois; Anne Costille; Emmanuel Hugot; Jared O'Neal; Juan Carlos Guerra; Mamadou N'Diaye; Julien Girard; Dimitri Mawet; Gerard Zins: SPHERE on-sky performance compared with budget predictions
9908-85: Henri M.J. Boffin, Elyar Sedaghati, Guillaume Blanchard, Oscar Gonzalez, Sabine Moehler, Neale Gibson, Mario van den Ancker, Jonathan Smoker, Joseph Anderson, Christian Hummel, Danuta Dobrzycka, Alain Smette, and Gero Rupprecht: Regaining the FORS: making optical ground-based transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets with VLT+FORS2 possible again
9908-115: P. Hibon, K. Dohlen, A. Vigan, J. Milli, and the SPHERE Consortium: Characterization of the Atmospheric Dispersion Correctors from VLT/SPHERE [Poster]
9908-118: Anne-Lise Maire; Maud Langlois; Kjetil Dohlen; Anne-Marie Lagrange; Raffaele Gratton; Gaël Chauvin; Silvano Desidera; Julien H. Girard; Julien Milli; Arthur Vigan; Gerard Zins; Philippe Delorme; Jean-Luc Beuzit; Riccardo U. Claudi; Markus Feldt; David Mouillet; Pascal Puget; Massimo Turatto; François Wildi: SPHERE IRDIS and IFS astrometric strategy and calibration
9908-129: David Pearson, Reinhold Dorn et al.: NIX, the imager for ERIS: the AO instrument for the VLT
9908-130: R. Claudi; J. Antichi; A. Baruffolo; P. Bruno; E. Cascone; V. DeCaprio; M. DePascale; S. Desidera; V. D'Orazi; D. Fantinel; G. Farisato; E. Giro; R. Gratton; L. Lessio; A.L. Maire; D. Mesa; B. Salasnich; S. Scuderi; E. Sissa; M. Turatto; A. Zurlo; JL Beuzit; A. Boccaletti; G. Chauvin; K. Dohlen; G. Finger; J. H. Girard; M. Kasper; N. Hubin; M. Langlois; J.L. Lizon  D. Mouillet; P. Puget; F. Wildi: Pushing down with the contrast: scientific performances with SPHERE-IFS
9908-232: Jean Louis Lizon, Olaf Iwert, Sebastian Deiries, Hans Dekker, Renate Hinterschuster, Antonio Manescau, Denis Megevand, Eric Mueller, Francesco Alfonso Pepe, Marco Riva: An ultra-stable cryostat for the detectors of ESPRESSO
9908-261: Ulf Seemann, Reinhold Dorn et al.: The VLT/CRIRES+ calibration unit: design, integration, and test results including a novel Fabry-Perot etalon for wavelength calibration from 1-5um
9908-352: Jean Louis Lizon, Paola Amico, Martin Brinkmann, Bernard Delabre, Gerd Finger, Ivan Maria Guidolin, Ronald Guzman, Renate Hinterschuster, Derek Ives, Barbara Klein, Marco Quattri: A new test facility for the E-ELT Infrared Detector program

9909-9: (LAM first author)
9909-16: FB. Neichel et al.: Review on AO real-time turbulence estimation
9909-17: A. Guesalaga, J. Osborn, M. Sarazin, B. Neichel, S. Perera, R. Wilson: FASS: The full aperture seeing sensor
9909-24: Stefan Stroebele, Elise Vernet, Martin Brinkmann, Gerd Jakob, Paul Lilley, Mark Casali, Pierre-Yves Madec, Markus Kasper: Deformable mirrors development program at ESO
9909-27: W. Hackenberg, D. Bonaccini Calia, B. Buzzoni, M. Comin, C. Dupuy., F. Gago, I. Guidolin, R. Guzman, R. Holzlohner, S. Huber, L. Kern, S. McLay, D. Popovic, M. Quattri, J. Quentin, S. Lewis, T. Pfrommer, R. Arsenault, P-­Y Madec, J.A. Abad, G. Fischer, J-­P Kirchbauer, P. Duhoux, M. Enderlein, J-­F Pirard, J. Beltran, J-­L Alvarez, D. Del Valle, J.C. Palacio, D.P. Weii: ESO 4LGSF: Integration in the VLT, Commissioning and on-sky results [Presentation slides]
9909-30: D. Bonaccini Calia, I .Guidolin, T. Pfrommer, R. Holzlöhner, S. Lewis, W. Hackenberg, M. Reyes Garcia Talavera, I. Montilla, G. Lombardi, D. Bello, M. Centrone, F. Pedichini, M. Stangalini: E-ELT Assembly, Integration & Technical Commissioning [Presentation slides]
9909-32: T. Fusco; J.-F. Sauvage; D. Mouillet; A. Costille; C. Petit; J.-L. Beuzit; K. Dohlen; J. Milli; J. Girard; M. Kasper; A. Vigan; M. Suarez; C. Soenke; M. Downing; M. N'Diaye; P. Baudoz; A. Sevin; A. Baruffolo; H.-M. Schmid; B. Salasnich; E. Hugot; N. Hubin: SAXO, the SPHERE extreme AO system: on-sky final performance and future improvements
9909-37: P.-Y. Madec, J. Kolb, S. Oberti, J. Paufique, P. La Penna, W. Hackenberg, H. Kuntschner, J. Argomedo, M. Kiekebusch, R. Donaldson, M. Suarez, R. Arsenault: Adaptive Optics Facility – control strategy and first on-sky results of the acquisition sequence
9909-44: Jean-François Sauvage; Thierry Fusco; Masen Lamb; Julien Girard; Martin Brinkmann; Andres Guesalaga; Peter Wizinowich; Jared O'Neal; Mamadou N'Diaye; Arthur Vigan; David Mouillet; Jean-Luc Beuzit; Markus Kasper; Miska Le Louarn; Julien Milli; Kjetil Dohlen; Benoît Neichel; Pierre Bourget; Pierre Haguenauer; Dimitri Mawet:
Tackling down the low wind effect on SPHERE instrument
9909-61: James Osborn, Richard Wilson, Tim Butterley, Tim Morris, Marc Dubbeldam, Frédéric Déerie, and Marc Sarazin: E-ELT turbulence pro ling with stereo-SCIDAR at Paranal
9909-68: Sylvain Oberti, Johann Kolb, Miska Le Louarna, Paolo La Penna, Pierre-Yves Madec, Benoit Neichel, Jean-François Sauvage, Thierry Fusco, Robert Donaldson, Christian Soenke, Marcos Suárez Valles, Robin Arsenault: AOF LTAO mode: reconstruction strategy and first test results
9909-87: E. Diolaiti et al.: MAORY adaptive optics module for E-ELT: instrument design overview
9909-97: S. Scheithauer et al.: CIAO: wavefront sensors for GRAVITY
9909-98: C. Deen et al.: System tests and on-sky commissioning of the GRAVITY-CIAO wavefront sensors
9909-105: J. Kolb et al.: Laboratory results of the AOF system testing
9909-114: P. La Penna et al.: AOF: standalone test results of GALACSI
9909-174: J. Milli, T. Banasb D. Mouillet, D. Mawet, J. G. Girard, A. Vigan, A. Boccaletti, M. Kasper, Zahed Wahhaj, A.M. Lagrange, J.-L. Beuzit, T. Fusco, J.-F. Sauvage, and R. Galicher: Speckle lifetime in XAO coronagraphic images: temporal evolution of SPHERE coronagraphic images [Poster]
9909-178: R. Holzlöhner, D. Bonaccini Calia, D. Bello, D. Budker, M. Centrone, I. Guidolin, W. Hackenberg, S. Lewis, G. Lombardi, I. Montilla, F. Pedichini, F. Pedreros Bustos, T. Pfrommer, M. Reyes Garcia Talavera, S. Rochester: Comparison between Observation and Simulation of Sodium LGS Return Flux with a 20 W CW Laser on Tenerife
9909-203: (Linz first author)
9909-210: Felipe Pedreros Bustos, Ronald Holzlöhner, Dmitry Budker, Steffan Lewis, and Simon Rochester: Sodium vapor cell laser guide star experiments for continuous wave model validation
9909-231: Javier Reyes-Moreno, Mark Downing, Nicola Di Lieto: ESO Adaptive Optics NGSD/LGSD detector and camera controller for the E-ELT
9909-265: M. N'Diaye; A. Vigan; K. Dohlen; J.-F. Sauvage; A. Caillat; A. Costille; J. H. V. Girard; J.-L. Beuzit; T. Fusco; P. Blanchard; J. Le Merrer; D. Le Mignant; F. Madec; G. Moreaux; D. Mouillet; P. Puget; G. Zins: ZELDA, a Zernike wavefront sensor for the fine measurement of quasi-static aberrations in coronagraphic systems: concept studies and results with VLT/SPHERE
9909-277: Miska Le Louarn, Pierre-Yves Madec, Johann Kolb, Jerome Paufique , Sylvain Oberti, Paolo La Penna, Robin Arsenault: Comparison between simulations and lab results on the ASSIST testbench
9909-287: Sylvain Bonnefond, Michel Tallon, Miska Le Louarn, and Pierre-Yves Madec: Wavefront reconstruction with pupil fragmentation: study of a simple case
9909-291: Julien H. Girard et al.: Metrics and quality control with adaptive optics instruments at the VLT [Poster]
9909-298: Miska Le Louarn, Pierre-Yves Madec, Enrico Marchetti, Henri Bonnet, Michael Esselborn: Simulations of E-ELT telescope effects on AO system performance
9909-303: Julien H. Girard, Martin Tourneboeuf: ABISM: an interactive image quality assessment tool for adaptive optics instruments [Poster]

9910-1: F. Primas, S. Marteau, L. E. Tacconi-Garman, V. Mainieri, S. Mysore, M. Rejkuba, M. Hilker, F. Patat, M. Sterzik, A. Kaufer, S. Mieske: Operational metrics for the ESO Very Large Telescope. Lessons learned and future steps
9910-02: M. Sterzik, U. Grothkopf, A. Kaufer, B. Leibundgut, S. Mieske, F. Patat, M. Rejkuba, M. Romaniello, L.E. Tacconi-Garman: The impact of science operations on science return of the Very Large Telescope
9910-7: N. Delmotte, M. Arnaboldi , L. Mascetti, A. Micol, J. Retzlaff: Validation of ESO Phase 3 data submissions
9910-8: Jörg Retzlaff, Magda Arnaboldi, Nausica A. R. Delmotte, Laura Mascetti, Alberto Micol: Publication of science data products through the ESO archive: lessons learned and future evolution
9910-11: Magda Arnaboldi, Nausicaa Delmotte, Michael Hilker, Gaitee Hussain, Laura Mascetti, Alberto Micol, Monika Petr-Gotzens, Marina Rejkuba, Jörg Retzlaff, and Steffen Mieske, Thomas Szeifert, Rob Ivison, Bruno Leibundgut, Martino Romaniello: Public Surveys at ESO
9910-13: Martino Romaniello: Science Data Management for ESO’s La Silla Paranal Observatory
9910-56: A.M. Chavan, S.L. Tanne, E. Akiyama, R. Kurowski, S. Randall, B. Vila Vilaro, E. Villard: ALMA quality assurance: concepts, procedures, and tools
9910-59: S. Marteau, O.Hainaut, G. Hau, S. Mieske, F. Patat, M. Rejkuba, I. Saviane, L. Tacconi-Garman: The evolution of observing modes at ESO telescopes
9910-60: Andres Pino Pavez, Stéphane Brillant, Susana Cerda, Antoine Mérand, Steffen Mieske, Alain Smette, Cristian M. Romero: New facilities, new challenges: the Telescope and Instrument Operators Evolution at ESO
9910-71: Wolfram Freudling and Martino Romaniello: Delivering Data Reduction Pipelines to Science Users
9910-82: P. Santos, P. Amico, D. Summers, P. Duhoux, R. Arsenault, T. Bierwirth, H. Kuntschner, P.-Y. Madec, M. Pruemm, M. Rejkuba: Operations of the laser traffic control system in Paranal
9910-87: L. Mascetti, V. Forchì, M. Arnaboldi, N. Delmotte, A. Micol, J. Retzlaff, and S. Zampieri: ESO Phase 3 automatic data validation: Groovy-based tool to assure the compliance of the reduced data with the Science Data Product Standard
9910-89: Dominic Bordelon, Uta Grothkopf, Silvia Meakins, Michael Sterzik: Trends and developments in VLT data papers as seen through telbib [Poster]
9910-104: Wolfgang Hummel, Julien H.V. Girard, Julien Milli, Zahed Wahhaj, Lars Lundin, and Arthur Vigan: Quality control and data flow operations of SPHERE
9910-111: Mario E. van den Ancker, Daniel Asmus, Christian Hummel, Hans-Ulrich Käufl, Florian Kerber, Alain Smette, Julian Taylor, Konrad Tristram, Jakob Vinther, and Burkhard Wolff: Investigating the effect of atmospheric turbulence on mid-IR data quality with VISIR
9910-119: Cristian Marcelo Romero, Steffen Mieske, Stéphane Brillant, Andres Pino, Susana Cerda, Claudia Reyes, Carlos La Fuente: Evolution of Operations for the Survey Telescope at Paranal [Poster]
9910-120: Reinhard Hanuschik, Lodovico Coccato: PHOENIX: the production line for science data products at ESO
9910-121: Alberto Micol, Magda Arnaboldi, Nausicaa A.R. Delmotte, Laura Mascetti, Joerg Retzlaff: ESO Science Data Product Standard for 1D Spectral Products
9910-123: Henri M. J. Boffin, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Joe Anderson, Andres Pino, Willem-Jan de Wit, and Julien H. V. Girard: Training telescope operators and support astronomers at Paranal

9911-18: J.C. Gonzalez, H. Kurlandczyk, C. Schmid, D. Schneller: E-ELT requirements flow down
9911-26: Erik Allaert, Moreno Pasquato, Rubén Soto: ALMA software releases versus quality management: and the winner is …
9911-32: Gianluca Verzichelli: European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) availability stochastic model: integrating FMEA, influence diagram, and Bayesian network together
9911-39: B. Sedghi, M. Müller, and M. Dimmler: Analyzing the impact of vibrations on E-ELT primary segmented mirror
9911-84: Gero Rupprecht, Robin Arsenault, Reinhard Hanuschik, Maximilian Kraus, Paola Sivera, Arnout Tromp, Gianluca Verzichelli: Quality Initiative at ESO [Poster]
9911-88: Juan Marrero: Optomechanical design software for segmented mirrors [Poster]

9912-81: Roman Follert, Reinhold Dorn et al.: Characterizing the cross dispersion reflection gratings of CRIRES+
9912-208: S. Becerril, E. Mirabet, J. L. Lizon, M. Abril, C. Cárdenas, I. Ferro, R. Morales, D. Pérez, A. Ramón, M.A. Sánchez-Carrasco, A. Quirrenbach, P. Amado, I. Ribas, A. Reiners, J.A. Caballero, W. Seifert, J. Herranz: CARMENES-NIR channel spectrograph – Cooling system AIV: Thermo-mechanical performance of the instrument

9913-14: F. Pellegrin, B. Jeram, J. Haucke, S. Feyrin: Modernized build and test infrastructure for control software at ESO: highly flexible building, testing, and automatic quality practices for telescope control software
9913-39: Alessandro Caproni, Pau Colomer, Bogdan Jeram, Heiko Sommer, Gianluca Chiozzi, Miguel M. Mañas: ACS from development to operations
9913-46: Erich Schmid, George Kosugi, Jorge Ibsen, Morgan Griffith: Don't get taken by surprise: planning for software obsolescence management at the ALMA Observatory
9913-49: Jorge Ibsen, Jonathan Antognini, Jorge Avarias, Alessandro Caproni, Matthias Fuessling, Guillermo Gimenez, Khushbu Verma, Matias Mora, Joseph Schwarz, Tomás Staig: Building a world-wide open source community around a software framework. Progress, dos, and don'ts
9913-83: G. Filippi, J. Ibsen, S. Jaque, F. Liello, N. Ovando, A. Astudillo, J. Parra, Christian Saldias: The ALMA high speed optical communication link is here. An essential component for reliable present and future operations [Poster]

9914-129: V. Tapia, R. Nesti, A. González, I. Barrueto, F. P. Mena, N. Reyes, F. Villa, F. Cuttaia, P. Yagoubov: An ultra-broadband optical system for ALMA Band 2+3

9915-112: Simon Tulloch: A temperature controller board for the ARC controller [Poster]
9915-113: Simon Tulloch: Implementation of an FPGA-based DCDS video processor for CCD imaging [Poster]