Recently I attended the VLT in 2030 meeting at ESO headquarters in Garching, outside of Munich in Germany. While there I took the opportunity to extend my stay by a few days to allow time for discussions with key ESO personnel about enhancing Australia's Strategic Partnership. For those...Read More
In order to properly measure the impact that the ESO Strategic Partnership is having across a range of outputs including collaboration, public outreach, leveraging grants, etc., AAL conducts annual Australian ESO User Surveys, targeting the Principal Investigators who were allocated ESO time in the two most recently completed...Read More
La Silla Observatory is located in the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the driest and most remote areas of the world, 150 km northeast of La Serena and at an altitude of 2400 metres. Whoever is lucky enough to visit this observatory immediately realises that it is a...Read More
This is a quick update from your Users Committee (UC) representative, Caroline Foster. My role is to represent Australian ESO users and act as the capillary link between ESO and the Australian community.Read More
Between June 17 and 21 this year, an exciting, rare and strategic meeting will take place in Garching on The VLT in 2030. The existing complement of VLT/I instrumentation was largely defined a decade or more ago, with no new instruments approved in the past 5 years. The...Read More
For 5 weeks in September-October 2018, I was at ESO Santiago hosted by the Visiting Scientist program. For this "paper-writing retreat," I worked with Matias Jones, an ESO Fellow with whom I have collaborated for several years on the search for planets orbiting evolved stars.Read More
This is an update from your Users Committee (UC) representative, Caroline Foster. My role is to represent Australian ESO users and act as the capillary link between ESO and the Australian community.Read More
I am a member of the Observing Programmes Committee (OPC) Panel A for Periods 102 and 103. My experience as an ESO user centers around my time spent working on a five year guaranteed time KMOS survey. During this time I observed at Paranal 3 times for a...Read More
When Australia became a strategic partner of the European Southern Observatory my PhD supervisor encouraged our group to actively think about proposal ideas. New telescopes and new instruments implied opportunities for new science. Within my team we came up with a few proposals, ranging from observing galaxy kinematics...Read More
In July 2018 I traveled to Cerro Paranal in Chile for half a night in Visitor Mode (VM) with X-Shooter on UT2 of the Very Large Telescope. Usually ESO does not permit VM runs of less than 1 night due to the overheads involved, and we were originally...Read More
