KMOS Science Verification
Eleven nights have been allocated to the KMOS SV. These have been scheduled in the following 2 periods (which includes some nights for technical time):
- June 24 to 30 2013 (SV1)
- September 21 to 27 2013 (SV2)
News
- June 26: the first two nights (June 24/25) were used to reach the nominal temperature of the instrument.
- June 30: four nights were fully dedicated to Science Verification with observations conducted for 10 of the SV programmes.
Approved Programs
A total of 21 proposals have been allocated SV time. The observations are being performed in "service mode style" by a dedicated team and the collected data are made available to the whole user community. See VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures for more details.
WARNING: all (raw) data and calibrations are becoming public shortly after observations.
There is no proprietary period nor earlier data release to the PIs.
If you have any questions on the KMOS Science Verification, please contact Jorge Melnick
Below is the list of programs with the project titles as well as the links to the corresponding raw archive data.
- Program 60.A-9446(A): J. Richard et al.: Looking for low luminosity lensed galaxies with KMOS.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9447(A): N. Gibson et al.: Exoplanet transits with KMOS: Is GJ 1214b a water-world Super Earth or a cloudy Mini-Neptune? and
D. Angerhausen et al.: Exoplanet transits with KMOS: Is GJ 1214b a water-world Super Earth or a cloudy Mini-Neptune?.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9448(A): B. Lanzoni et al.: Solving the NGC6388 conundrum: KMOS velocity measures of individual stars.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9449(A): R. Maiolino et al.: The nature and the origin of dark galaxies.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9450(A): A. Feldmeier et al.: A legacy survey of kinematics and stellar populations of the Milky Way nuclear cluster.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9451(A): D. Wylezalek et al.: KMOS confirmation of Spitzer-selected galaxy clusters at z > 1.4.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9452(A): C. Evans et al.: A pilot study of extragalactic red supergiants in NGC 6822.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9453(A): G. Costigan et al.: Connecting Accretion Variations to Stellar Rotation.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9454(A): L. Inno et al.: Abundances and kinematics in the near end of the Galactic Bar.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9455(A): M. Rodrigues et al.: Unveiling the dynamical nature of Luminous Compact Galaxies at z~0.6.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9456(A): C. Evans et al.: A pilot study of clusters discovered by the VVV Survey.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9457(A): J. Melnick et al.: Dwarf Starburst Galaxies at High Redshifts.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9458(A): S. Ramsay et al.: Outflows from massive young stellar objects.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9459(A): D. Fedele et al.: The embedded stellar population of rho Oph.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9460(A): D. Sobral et al.: KMOS-CFHiZELS: The Dynamics and Chemistry of HI selected star-forming galaxies at z~1.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9461(A): G. Cresci et al.: An unprecedented IR view of the prototypical merging galaxy NGC6240.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9462(A): M. Cesetti et al.: Near-Infrared line strength gradients in IC4296.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9463(A): R. Galvan-Madrid et al.: The Jet-Accretion Connection in Young Stellar Objects: KMOS Mapping of Near-Infrared Lines.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9464(A): A. Galametz et al.: A galaxy cluster candidate at zphot = 1.82 in the CANDELS UDS field.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here. - Program 60.A-9465(A): F. Buitrago et al.: Unveiling low redshift HUDF ETGs: their internal disks & galactic satellites.
The archive link to data from this program can be found here.
The calibration frames can be obtained via the CalSelector in the ESO archive query. We do not guarantee that all calibration files are correctly associated to the science files in the early days of science verification. Therefore, here we also provide the calibration files for the individual nights (UT 00:00:00 to UT 23:59:59) of the two SV observing periods:
- June 25 calibration data can be queried from the ESO archive via this link.
- June 26 calibration data can be queried from the ESO archive via this link.
- June 27 calibration data can be queried from the ESO archive via this link.
- June 28 calibration data can be queried from the ESO archive via this link.
- June 29 calibration data can be queried from the ESO archive via this link.
- June 30 calibration data can be queried from the ESO archive via this link.