The last Aspro2 release provides an new advanced OIFITS data simulator - to estimate first the GRAVITY Fringe Tracker’s performance (single & dual field) then its impact on GRAVITY or MATISSE (GRA4MAT) observations - and an improved Adaptive Optics performance model to preliminary support the coming GRAVITY+ GPAO for VLTI UTs to be installed in Summer 2024.

To see the complete change log:
http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro2/releasenotes.htm
http://jmmc.fr/~swmgr/AsproConfig/aspro-conf/releasenotes.htm

The SearchFTT service searches for nearby stars suitable for off-axis Fringe Tracking and off-axis Adaptive Optics. It has been greatly improved to provide a new ranking based on a simplified model of AO (GPAO) and FT (GRAVITY) of VLTI.

ESO - Period 114: 1 October 2024 - 31 March 2025. Deadline for proposals: Thursday 21 March 2024, 12:00 noon CEST

CHARA 2024B semester: August 1 - December 22, 2024 (50 nights of community access time). Deadline for proposals: Monday, April 1, 2024 at 11:59 pm Mountain Standard Time (MST)

Assistance
For VLTI users needing assistance to prepare their VLTI proposals, the community-supported VLTI Expertise Centres – distributed throughout Europe - can offer in-depth support. They also offer support for observation preparation, advanced data reduction and analysis.

For CHARA users, Steve Ridgway (ridgway@noao.edu) is the NOIRLab point of contact for proposal preparation. Cyprien Lanthermann (clanthermann@gsu.edu) is the CHARA Visitor Support Scientist and Jeremy Jones (jjones176@gsu.edu) is the CHARA Data Scientist. Both of them can assist with selecting appropriate instrumentation, planning observations, and reducing data.

Mis à jour le 10 March 2024