UVES Team members and project milestones
The table below summarizes the names of some of the people involved in thedevelopment and maintenance of UVES from the beginning to the present:
| Built by:
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ESO (responsible: H. Dekker)
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| Project Scientist:
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| Paranal Instrument Scientists:
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| STC recommendation:
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May 1992
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| Installation:
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Nasmyth B Focus UT2 (Kueyen) in August 1999
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| Status:
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First light achieved September 27th, 1999
Commissioning completed December 21st, 1999 Released to the community: April 1st, 2000 |
| Instrument Science Team:
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B. Gustaffson (Uppsala), H. Hensberge (Brussels), P. Molaro (Trieste), P. Nissen (Aarhus)
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UVES main science objectives:
- Structure, physical conditions and abundances of interstellar and intergalactic gas at early epochs from the absorption spectra of high-redshift QSOs
- Kinematics of gas and stars in galactic nuclei
- Kinematics and mass distributions of star clusters
- Composition, kinematics and physical conditions of the interstellar medium in the Galaxy and in nearby systems
- Chemical composition and atmospheric models of galactic and extragalactic stars
- Substellar companions of nearby stars (high-precision radial velocity studies over long time scales)
- Stellar oscillations