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Astrometric and photometric accuracies in high contrast imaging: The SPHERE speckle calibration tool (SpeCal)
R. Galicher, A. Boccaletti, D. Mesa +21
The consortium of the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch installed at the Very Large Telescope (SPHERE/VLT) has been operating its guaranteed observation time (2…
Performance of the VLT Planet Finder SPHERE II. Data analysis and Results for IFS in laboratory
D. Mesa, R. Gratton, A. Zurlo +33
We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high-contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of ex…
Evaluation of Italian astronomical production: 2010-2012
Raffaele Gratton
The purpose of this document is to present a few statistics about the role of Italian astronomy, focusing on the production by INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica). Data are pr…
Women in Italian astronomy
Francesca Matteucci, Raffaele Gratton
This document gives some quantitative facts about the role of women in Italian astronomy. More than 26% of Italian IAU members are women: this is the largest fraction among the wor…
IRDIS, the dual-band imager camera of SPHERE: testing the performances in laboratory
A. Zurlo, A. Vigan, C. Moutou +12
Next year the second generation instrument SPHERE will begin science operations at the Very Large Telecope (ESO). This instrument will be dedicated to the search for exoplanets thr…
Quick-MESS: A fast statistical tool for Exoplanet Imaging Surveys
Mariangela Bonavita, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Ray Jayawardhana
Several tools have been developed in the past few years for the statistical analysis of the exoplanet search surveys, mostly using a combination of Monte-Carlo simulations or a Bay…