Tools and Tips

XSHOOTER contributed paper library

• Articles through ADS..
• An excerpt of XSHOOTER operations at Paranal by Martayan et al..
• The physical model in action: quality control for X-Shooter by Moehler et al.
• The X-shooter pipeline by Modigliani et al.
• Using the X-shooter physical model to understand instrument flexure by Bristow et al.
• Performances of X-shooter by Vernet et al.
• There was a meeting devoted to the 1st year of XSHOOTER science (October 19-22, 2010). For all details, see the website.
• "Building up a database of spectro-photometric standard stars from the UV to the NIR: a status report" by Vernet et al., 2008, SPIE, 7016E, 46.
• "Results of X-shooter data reduction software on laboratory frames" by Goldoni et al., 2008, SPIE, 7014E, 193.

XSHOOTER specific tools and information

• Our SM spectrophotometric standard stars.
• ThAr lines atlas for the UVB and VIS arm.
• Sky lines atlas for the NIR arm
• xshooter pipeline

Generic tools and information

Some information and tools that are shared by all instruments.

• ETC, Exposure Time Calculators
• Proposal Preparation and Submission
• Preparation of Phase 2 material for service mode (SM) observations. Please check also the instrument specific phase 2 requirements or phase 2 news.
• Instrument Health Check (HC) plots . Click on the X-SHOOTER entry on the top left corner to access to the monitoring plots of the XSHOOTER UVB, VIS and NIR spectrographs.