Stephen Kent
(Fermilab)
4/16/12, 9:00 AM
Overview
Paper
The Science of Calibration
What are the most demanding science drivers for calibration? The answer to this question depends on whether we are referring to absolute calibration, differential calibration, or some variant in between. Our published data, even after calibration, retain some imprint of the instrumentation used to obtain them, yet science should not need to care about such...
Dr
Florian Kerber
(European Southern Observatory)
4/16/12, 9:30 AM
Earth's atmospheric effects
Monitoring the actual atmospheric conditions under which observations are being conducted is a key task of any ground-based observatory. At ESO’s La Silla Paranal observatory parameters like seeing, extinction and coherence time are regularly measured and the observed values are routinely used to make real-time scheduling decisions for service mode based on user-provided constraints. This...