The last Aspro2 release provides an new advanced OIFITS data simulator - to estimate first the GRAVITY Fringe Tracker’s performance (single & dual field) then its impact on GRAVITY or MATISSE (GRA4MAT) observations - and an improved Adaptive Optics performance model to preliminary support the coming GRAVITY+ GPAO for VLTI UTs to be installed in Summer 2024.

To see the complete change log:
http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro2/releasenotes.htm
http://jmmc.fr/~swmgr/AsproConfig/aspro-conf/releasenotes.htm

The SearchFTT service searches for nearby stars suitable for off-axis Fringe Tracking and off-axis Adaptive Optics. It has been greatly improved to provide a new ranking based on a simplified model of AO (GPAO) and FT (GRAVITY) of VLTI.

ESO - Period 114: 1 October 2024 - 31 March 2025. Deadline for proposals: Thursday 21 March 2024, 12:00 noon CEST

CHARA 2024B semester: August 1 - December 22, 2024 (50 nights of community access time). Deadline for proposals: Monday, April 1, 2024 at 11:59 pm Mountain Standard Time (MST)

Assistance
For VLTI users needing assistance to prepare their VLTI proposals, the community-supported VLTI Expertise Centres – distributed throughout Europe - can offer in-depth support. They also offer support for observation preparation, advanced data reduction and analysis.

For CHARA users, Steve Ridgway (ridgway noao.edu) is the NOIRLab point of contact for proposal preparation. Cyprien Lanthermann (clanthermann gsu.edu) is the CHARA Visitor Support Scientist and Jeremy Jones (jjones176 gsu.edu) is the CHARA Data Scientist. Both of them can assist with selecting appropriate instrumentation, planning observations, and reducing data.

Updated on 10 March 2024