VISIR News

• January 31, 2006: first public release of the data reduction pipeline
• December 20, 2005: user manual updated for P77 phase 2
• December 20, 2005: guidecam tool a tool to select guide stars, adapted for VISIR
• December 20, 2005: Cohen 81 a list of 81 standard stars, selected from Cohen et al. (see user manual )
• December 20, 2005: Cohen 12 a list of 12 standard stars, selected from Cohen et al. (see user manual )

• September 4, 2005: user manual updated for Call for Proposals P77
  • New low resolution, medium resolution and high-resolution, cross-dispersed modes released
  • Acquisition for spectroscopy can be done with the imager detector
  • Acquisition for imaging and spectroscopy can be done with a K-band filter

• March 1, 2005: user manual updated for Call for Proposals P76
  • New high-resolution spectroscopic modes released
  • Imaging sensitivities improved and spectroscopy (LR and HR) consolidated
  • Filter transmission curves available electronically
• February 17, 2005: Release new web pages
• December 10, 2004: Updated user manual for Period 75 service and visitor mode observation runs.
• September 4, 2004: First release VISIR user manual for Science Verification and GTO observations
• September 2004: Please find here links to the VISIR Science Verfication page
• Guaranteed Time Observation projects for VISIR