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

1.2k citations · 2.2k across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Current status of the High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS-HR) for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

Andrea Tozzi, Anna Brucalassi, Matteo Munari +10

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a planned 12-meter class dedicated spectroscopic facility for massive spectroscopic surveys. This paper presents the current status…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 316 cited

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultra-hot giant exoplanet

David Ehrenreich, Christophe Lovis, Romain Allart +94

Ultra-hot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth's insolation. Their high-temperature atmospheres (>2,000 K) are ideal laboratories for studying extreme planetary climat…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 31 cited

NAOMI: the adaptive optics system of the Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLTI

Woillez J., Abad J. A., Abuter R. +80

The tip-tilt stabilisation system of the 1.8 m Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer was never dimensioned for robust fringe tracking, except when atmosph…

astro-ph.IM2019

SpecTel: A 10-12 meter class Spectroscopic Survey Telescope

Richard Ellis, Kyle Dawson, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +25

We recommend a conceptual design study for a spectroscopic facility in the southern hemisphere comprising a large diameter telescope, fiber system, and spectrographs collectively o…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 1.2k cited

X-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope

Joel Vernet, H. Dekker, S. D'Odorico +87

X-shooter is the first 2nd generation instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope(VLT). It is a very efficient, single-target, intermediate-resolution spectrograph that was installe…

astro-ph2008★ 258 cited

Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes

J. Liske, A. Grazian, E. Vanzella +24

The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate…