All the manuals are in Adobe's Acrobat (PDF) format.

FLAMES User's Manual

All the information about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics.

• Since Period 114, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation. (no changed wrt to P113) Also valid in following semester

FLAMES Template User Manual

Detailed information on the acquisition, observation, and calibration templates.

• Since Period 114, to be used for Phase I preparation. (No changes wrt P113) Also valid in following semesters
  

FPOSS User Manual

Detailed information on the preparation of fibre configurations.

• Since Period 114, to be used for Phase I preparation. (No changes wrt P113) Also valid in following semesters
  

FLAMES Calibration Plan

Detailed information on the calibration plan of FLAMES observations.

• Since Period 113, to be used for Phase 1 preparation. (No changes wrt P112) Also valid in following semesters
  

Data Reduction Frequently Asked Questions

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

Data reduction and other reports

• Instructions to download and install the FLAMES CPL-based pipeline are available in the GIRAFFE section of the VLT Instrument Pipelines webpage, also including detailed information on how to reduce data obtained with Giraffe using the Reflex workflow.
• Notes by M. Zoccali on the treatment of atmospheric diffraction (in ps format)
• FLAMES-ARGUS (public) Commissioning Report. A high-resolution version and an animated version of the eta Carinae data cube are available.
• FLAMES 6th Anniversary presentations (Workshop held in Garching, Dec 1st-3rd 2008).
• For the historical record: An old GIRAFFE data reduction cookbook is available (Last updated for P85). Please, download also the demo dataset (80M). This file is not maintained any longer!

Other FLAMES publications - mainly technical in nature:

1. FLAMES: a Multi-object Fibre Facility for the VLT
   Pasquini L. et al., conference, Munich, March 2000
   Format: PostScript compressed (1301kb)
   Please cite this publication when writing papers containing FLAMES data.
2. Mechanical features for the OzPoz positioner for the VLT
   Gillingham et al., SPIE conference, Munich, March 2000
   Format: PostScript compressed (1209kb)
3. KUEYEN: a unique machine for stellar studies
   Pasquini L., "From Extrasolar Planets to Cosmology: The VLT Opening Symposium",
   2000, eds. J. Bergeron and A. Renzini (Springer), p. 211
   Format: PostScript compressed (23kb)
4. The Data Reduction Software for GIRAFFE, the VLT medium resolution multi-object fiber-fed spectrograph
   A. Blecha, V. Cayatte, P. North, F. Royer, G. Simond, proceedings for SPIE conference: "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000",
   Format: PDF
5. Installation and first results of FLAMES, the VLT multifibre facility
   Pasquini, L. et. al., proceedings for SPIE conference: "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2002",
   Format: PostScript
6. Installation and commissioning of FLAMES, the VLT multifibre facility
   Pasquini, L. et. al., The Messenger no. 110, December 2002.
   Format: PDF
   
7. Toward accurate radial velocities with the fibre-fed GIRAFFE multi-objectVLT spectrograph
   Royer, F. et. al., proceedings for SPIE conference : "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2002"
   Format: PostScript compressed (660kb)
8. Two Extremely Hot Exoplanets Caught in Transits
   Bouchy et al. , ESO press release, May 2004.
   Format: HTML
9. Quality Control of VLT-FLAMES/GIRAFFE data
   Hanuschik et al., In: "Optimizing Scientific Return for Astronomy through Information Technologies ", SPIE Glasgow 2004.
   Format: PDF (556kb)
10. Quality Control for UVES-fiber at the VLT-Kueyen Telescope
    Wolff et al. , In: "Optimizing Scientific Return for Astronomy through Information Technologies ", SPIE Glasgow 2004.
    Format: PDF (204kb)
11. Performance of FLAMES at the VLT: 1 year of Operations
    Pasquini et al., In: "Ground-based instrumentation for Astronomy", SPIE Glasgow 2004.
    Format: PDF (3364kb)