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20032024
most citedX-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope

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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

System Design of the Newest Generation Detector Controller for ELT and new VLT Instruments

Mathias Richerzhagen, Matthias Seidel, Leander Mehrgan +4

A new detector controller, NGCII, is in development for the first-generation instruments of the ELT as well as new instruments for the VLT. Building on experience with previous ESO…

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.GA2024★ 63 cited

A dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago

R. Abuter, F. Allouche, A. Amorim +124

Tight relationships exist in the local universe between the central stellar properties of galaxies and the mass of their supermassive black hole. These suggest galaxies and black h…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 21 cited

The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, Roberto Abuter +134

The GRAVITY instrument has been revolutionary for near-infrared interferometry by pushing sensitivity and precision to previously unknown limits. With the upgrade of GRAVITY and th…

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.SR2021★ 12 cited

Mid-infrared circumstellar emission of the long-period Cepheid l Carinae resolved with VLTI/MATISSE

V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, A. Matter +149

The nature of circumstellar envelopes (CSE) around Cepheids is still a matter of debate. The physical origin of their infrared (IR) excess could be either a shell of ionized gas, o…