XSHOOTER Documentation

In this page, you will find all the manuals needed to prepare and analyze your observations with XSHOOTER.

Download here the XSHOOTER User Manual for P90 preparations.
Some modifications with respect to P89 were performed, especially about the calibration plan.

Download here the XSHOOTER User Manual for P89 preparations.
The manual was largely updated wrt P88. It contains relevant information with respect to the new NIR slit wheel including the 2 new slits with the stray-light K-band blocking filter. The calibration plan was revised and more information is given on the new TCCD performances.

Download here the XSHOOTER User Manual for P88 preparations.
The manual was largely updated wrt P87.

Download here the XSHOOTER User Manual for P87 preparations.
The manual was updated wrt P86.

Download here the XSHOOTER User Manual for P85 and P86 preparations.
The manual is complete with templates description as well as the instrument calibration plan.

Download here the XSHOOTER User Manual for P84 phase 2 preparation and P85 phase 1 preparation.

Have also a look on the XSHOOTER article by Vernet et al. 2011 , which also provides some useful informations.

One can find here a document describing the NIR readout mode and its different regimes (normal, inter/extrapolated, saturated). It is highly relevant for the understanding of what is occurring in the observations and for preparing the OBs.