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OPTICON

The Optical Infrared Co-ordination Network for

Astronomy.

Status and prospects.

Michel Dennefeld

Institut d’Astrophysique (IAP) Paris

and University of Paris 6

Brno, Sept. 02, 2015

Since 2000 (FP5) OPTICON is an EU funded

thematic network (I3) bringing together national

funding agencies and users with common

interests in optical-infrared astronomy.


What is OPTICON?

PI. Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

PS. John Davies, UK Astronomy Technology Centre,

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

13 Original Participants


Initial Funding Agencies and Users

OPTICON Applied to the European

Union, as an Integrated

Infrastructure Initiative (I3), and has

been funded under FP5, 6, and 7


The OPTICON I3


•Networking via working groups (various topics)

•Transnational access to Night-time and solar

telescopes (combining previous activities such

as COMET and FP5 ENO)

•Since FP7-2, SolarNet is a separate I3

•Joint Research Projects in Technology

Management

OPTICON Board (24 partners) sets overall strategy and

priorities at annual meeting.

Oversight committee (~9 agencies) make the detailed

decisions, especially about money, ~ 6 monthly.

Cambridge (Gerry Gilmore) is co-ordinator and finance office.

Project Office (John Davies, UKATC) supports board, runs some

networks, attends board, proposes budgets etc

JRA’s and some networks have internal management


OPTICON I3 Networking

• Structuring European Astronomy (J.Davies). This includes

ELT science working group (Hook), Time Domain Astronomy

(Wyrzykowski), Technology Innovation (Cunningham), Medium

Sized Telescope Integration (J. Davies), etc…

• EU Interferometry Initiative (P. Garcia)

• Telescope Directors Forum (J .Davies)

• Enhancing Research Experience (M. Dennefeld, IAP)

• Round tables with Radionet, ALMA, NGST etc_

Changing and evolving….



Activity :ELT Working group

Result: ELT design study funded

under FP6


Many Networking events each year...

• NUVA meeting in Madrid 21-24 September

• Key Technology Working Group meeting,

Grenoble, 13 October

• ELT Meeting in Florence, Nov 8-11

• Telescope Directors Meeting, France, Nov 17-18

• Software Environment Meeting, ESO, Dec

• Many of these meetings are open, travel support is

possible. Look on our website for more details


e.g., in one trimester…

Joint Research Projects

• Novel Optical Elements for Astronomy (I)

• Astrophotonics (D)

• Fast Detectors and Cameras (F)

• Freeform Active Mirror Experiment (NL)

• Image reconstruction in Interferometry (F)

• Adaptive Optics for the E-ELT (Eso-F)


JRA activities

• Details of each JRA is linked from the

OPTICON web page

• In general they are not open to new partners

as the contract is already signed

• However, several of them have associated

network activities to provide science input,

and those are open


OPTICON

Telescope Network

or “COMET”

(hopefully not a fugitive one...)

= Access program


The Challenge

• Create a mechanism for improving access to

telescopes for non-national observers

• Provide resources for operation of the

telescopes and support of observing runs

• Implement common R & D projects for

infrastructure improvements


The Telescope Network

Anglo Australian Observatory 3.9m Telescope

Anglo Australian Observatory Schmidt Telescope

Centro Astronomico Hispano Aleman 3.5m Telescope

Centro Astronomico Hispano Aleman 2.2m Telescope

Canada France Hawaii Telescope 3.6m Telescope

La Silla 3.6m Telescope



Isaac Newton Group 4.2m Telescope

Isaac Newton Group 2.5m Telescope

UK Infrared Telescope 3.8m Telescope

TNG 3.5m Telescope

Nordic Optical Telescope 2.5m Telescope

Aristarchos 2.5m Telescope

Observatoire Haute Provence 1.9m Telescope

Telescope Bernard Lyot 2m Telescope

Telescopio Carlos Sancez 1.52m Telescope

THEMIS Solar Telescope

Swedish Solar Telescope Solar Telescope

Vacuum Tower Telescope Solar Telescope

Liverpool Telescope 2m Telescope

Dutch Open Telescope Solar Telescope

Initial set-up, now evolving


• OPTICON and network telescopes do publicise

their availability to non-national users. • About 10% of the time available (variable over years)

• A special OPTICON TAC has been set-up in

FP7). Deadline ~1 month before national dates

• Successful qualifying applicants do get travel

support.

• Telescopes receive audited ‘user fee’


Access Procedures

• OPTICON receives many applications (pressure

factor about 4). • Only ~ 10% of the time available (variable over years)

• The OPTICON TAC ranks the applications by

scientific merit only.

• There is also a limit in the available finances (about

25% of the whole Opticon budget!)

• In most cases, the limit is financial, not science

• A few nights on 4m telescopes can use all the budget!


Access results

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How to improve this situation ??

-Is getting better in recent semesters

-Training in writing proposals

-Better “ publicity” on instruments

Calar-Alto Observatory (D-E)

2.2m telescope

-CAFOS: Versatile Spectro-imager

Imaging 10’ x 10’, 2k x 2k

Spectroscopy R~200 – 2000

-MAGIC: Near-IR 256 x 256 (also smaller telescopes)

Calar-Alto 3.5m telescope

• (ALFA: AO + near-IR)

• LAICA: Prime, 44’ x 44’

• MOSCA: FOSC, 4k x 2k

• OMEGA-2000: 2k x 2k Prime, near-IR, 15’ x 15’

• OMEGA-Cass: 1k x 1k near-IR

• OMEGA_Prime 1k x 1k

• PMAS: IFU spectr. 10’’

• TWIN: Spectr. B + R, 3200-11000A, R~3000 >>

Reduced set-up under consideration (see talk by G. Bergond)

Soon to come: CARMENES

Max-Planck 2.2m at Eso (D)

A « copy » of the CAHA 2.2m telescope

-WFI camera: 33’ x 33’ FOV, visible (UBVRI + …)

-FEROS: optical spectrograph, R= 48000, all in one go!

-GROND (g,r,I,z,J,H,K) for SED (not public)


La Palma observatories (€)

• Isaac Newton Group (4m WHT + 2.5m INT)

• Nordic Optical Telescope (2.5m NOT)

• Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (3.5m TNG)

• Liverpool 2m robotic telescope (2008)

+ ….

See talk by D. Jones for details

Nordic Optical Telescope (La Palma)

2.5m, with various instruments

-Imaging: Mosca 2k x 2k, 8’ x 8’ visible

Notcam 1k x 1k, near-IR, 4’ x4’ (also spectroscopy)

-Spectroscopy ALFOSC focal reducer (versatile, 320-1100nm)

High-resolution (FIES, R>20000, fiber-fed)

etc…(StanCam)

NordicTrEx to come…


Haute-Provence Observatory (F)

193cm Telescope

Spectroscopy

-High-dispersion

Sophie (2006) R~70000, 2m/sec

or R~35000. 3870-6960 Å

2k x 4k S/N 100, 1h, V = 12

-Low-dispersion

Carelec Long-slit ( 5’ )

SPRAT (R~500) to come


• Accuracy 1-2 m/s (before June 2011, was 4-5 m/s)

SOPHIE at 1.93m-OHP

Perruchot et al. 2008, 2011

Bouchy et al. 2009, 2013

• Replaced ELODIE (1st exoplanet in 1995)

• Since August 2006

• Visible 387-694nm

• Stabilized in T and P

• In high-R mode, second fiber can record either sky, or reference lamp

• Scrambled input fiber

(δα = w/ Fcoll)

3.6m CFHT Telescope (C-F-H) in Hawaii (4200m)

Imaging:

MegaCam: 1ᵒ x 1ᵒ FOV, 0”19/px, new U filter

WIRCam: Y J H Ks , 21’ x 21’ FOV

Spectroscopy:

ESPaDOns : R~68000 (or 81000) 370~1000 nm

Spectro-polarimetry, V=15, 1h, S/N 30 at peak

SITELLE: FTS, 11’ x 11’, 350-900nm (~ IFU)


Pic du Midi Observatory (F)

2m Telescope B. Lyot -High-resolution spectroscopy

(Musicos: R~35000, 1k x 1k

380-540 or 540-870 nm

1h, S/N 500 for V = 7),

Now travelling....) replaced by:

presently Narval

R~50000 380 – 1000 nm

2k x 4k S/N 100, 1h, V = 15

Spectropolarimetry

See talk by Remi Cabanac

Solar Telescopes

Now under Solarnet

Themis 0.9 m VTT

0.7m +AO Observatorio El Teide

Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos

DOT

45cm

Swedish

1m

Gregor 1.5m

Sort-out the instrumentation offer...

• Separately for 4m and 2m telescopes...

• Distinguish optical, near-IR and thermal IR

(although distinction between optical and near-IR becomes negligible...

only exposure times and background levels are changing...)

• Imaging, low- or high-resolution spectro.

• Use diagrams (R versus λ, FOV versus λ )


Work horse instrumentation, optical, 4m Tel.

Changing rapidly...

• imaging/low resolution spectroscopy („EFOSC“ type)

• TNG/DOLORES

• NTT/EFOSC2

• 3.6m/none ( moved to the NTT)

• CAHA/MOSCA

• long slit, medium resolution spectroscopy, blue/red arm

• AAT/UCLES

• WHT/ISIS

• NTT/EFOSC2

• CAHA/TWIN


Spectroscopy with 4m N-telescopes


A lot of overlap...YOU choose!

HARPS-North

Thermal infrared

La Silla 3.6m

TIMMI2

3.5 – 28 mm, 320 x 240 Si:As, R=160 Not available anymore!

Imaging, spectroscopy, polarimetry

Mauna Kea-UKIRT 3.8m (until 2012; present situation unstable)

UIST

1-5 μm imaging-spectrometer, 1024 x 1024 InSb

CGS4

1-5 μm spectrometer (R ~ 8000), 256 x 256 InSb

Michelle

8-25 μm imaging-spectrometer, 320 x 240 SiAs


The offer is now much reduced….

Exemple of « sort-out » diagram for the IR

(UKIRT)

GIANO (TNG)

NICS (TNG)

Magic (Caha)

Near-IR only at the moment!

(thermal IR is now better done on larger telescopes)

Spectroscopy with 2m N-telescopes


Your choice!

SPRAT (LT)

Other options with EU-telescopes


The latter two important for E-ELT!

• Wide-field, multi-objects spectroscopy:

(Hermes, Weave, 4Most, …

• High-precision velocimetry (for exoplanets):

Sophie, Harps S and N, Carmenes, Spirou,…

• IFU’s: PMAS, (Sauron), (Snifs), (Integral),

Hector,…

• AO: a missing tool on 4m’s…?

SUMMARY

• OPTICON has made real progress in co-ordination of Optical/IR astronomy

• All networks are open to new members

• A wide range of EU optical-IR-night-solar telescopes are wide open for new users

• Possibility to use these telescopes for teaching schemes (eg NEON- Dennefeld)

• Opticon is sponsoring this school !!

• The Future for European Collaboration is open.

• Prepare for the “FP8 “ (EU-2020)


How to access Opticon Time

• A call comes out twice a year

• Deadlines are usually end of February and end of

August (one month before “ national” one)

• Applying to Opticon does not prevent you from

applying to other time, but beware of the rules (PI,

nationalities, etc…

• A unique, pan-european TAC

• The success rate is limited due to lack of funds,

• not lack of quality!


Contacts

General: www.astro-opticon.org

E-mail: [email protected] (John Davies, Project Scientist)

Phone: +44-131-668-8348

Contact preferentially the WP leaders!

ACCESS Program: same contacts


http://www.astro-opticon.org/



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