the Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph for the ESO 1.52-m telescope

The FEROS instrument is a state-of-the-art bench-mounted high-resolution astronomical echelle spectrograph with very high efficiency and large wavelength range, i.e., it covers the complete optical spectral region in one exposure with a resolution of R=48000.
It will be used at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile, i.e., one of the best astronomical sites in the world.
With this type of echelle spectrographs a large variety of stellar spectroscopic observation programs requiring high spectral stability can be carried out - one of the most spectacular was the discovery of the first extra-solar planet around the sun-like star 51 Peg.

News

• Paper: Commissioning FEROS, the new high-resolution spectrograph at La Silla.
  Color full-text preprint version (gzipped Postscript-Format 1 Mb). Published in The ESO Messenger 95 (1999)
• On-line searchable FEROS spectroscopic database including all public available and downloadable commissioning data
• FEROS press release by ESO from February 2, 1999
• Official FEROS homepage now at La Silla Observatory
• Installation,FIRST LIGHT, Commissioning I (Sept 21 - Oct 17, 1998), Commissioning II (Nov 11 - Nov 30, 1998)
• FEROS First (laboratory) Light on July 1st, 1998

Index

• FEROS Consortium
• FEROS Key Personnel
• Instrument Description
• Capabilities
• Spectral Format
• Image Quality
• CCD detector and Continuous Flow Cryostat
• Overall Efficiency
• Scientific Objectives
• Manufacturers
• Time Schedule
• Reports
• Publications
• FEROS Picture Gallery pictures
• Final Documentation
• La Silla and ESO 1.52-m Telescope
• Exposure-Time Calculator

If you have any comments on the FEROS project, please send me a mail .