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X‐shooter: What stands behind the good performance
Author(s) -
Zerbi F.M.,
Dekker H.,
Guinouard I.,
Navarro R.,
Rasmussen P.K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.201111520
Subject(s) - spectrograph , volume (thermodynamics) , computer science , aeronautics , aerospace engineering , systems engineering , physics , engineering , astronomy , quantum mechanics , spectral line
One year of operations demonstrated the high level of scientific performance of the X‐shooter spectrograph. The excellent science opened by this instrument is described in various papers within this volume. The purpose of this contribution is to briefly describe the novel technical solution adopted in the design and construction phase of X‐shooter that made it a successful instrument and the aforementioned science possible (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)