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20072024
most citedX-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope

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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2024

Progress on FORS-Up: the first instrument using ELT technologies

H. M. J. Boffin, V. Baldini, S. Bertocco +21

ESO is in the process of upgrading one of the two FORS (FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph) instruments - a multi-mode (imaging, polarimetry, long-slit, and multi-object spe…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 42 cited

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph for the VLT

R. Davies, O. Absil, G. Agapito +81

ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is an instrument that both extends and enhances the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for t…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CUBES: a UV spectrograph for the future

S. Covino, S. Cristiani, J. M. Alcala' +86

In spite of the advent of extremely large telescopes in the UV/optical/NIR range, the current generation of 8-10m facilities is likely to remain competitive at ground-UV wavelength…

astro-ph.SR2022

Chemical Composition of a Palomar 12 Blue Straggler

L. Pasquini, P. Bonifacio, L. Pulone +5

With the equivalent area of a 16m telescope, ESPRESSO in 4UT mode allows to inaugurate high resolution spectroscopy for solar-type stars belonging to extragalactic globular cluster…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 46 cited

Fundamental physics with Espresso: Towards an accurate wavelength calibration for a precision test of the fine-structure constant

Tobias M. Schmidt, Paolo Molaro, Michael T. Murphy +56

Observations of metal absorption systems in the spectra of distant quasars allow to constrain a possible variation of the fine-structure constant throughout the history of the Univ…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 108 cited

ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b

H. M. Tabernero, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, R. Allart +87

Aims. We report on ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopic observations of two primary transits of the highly-irradiated, ultra-hot Jupiter-size planet WASP-76b. We inv…