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Part of the web site dedicated to the astronomical community
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Part of the web site dedicated to the general audience.
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VLT spots the largest hypergiant star
AMBER has spotted the largest yellow hypergiant star.

See the ESO press release for more details
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Latest news
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Friday
10
June
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Faintest observations on a quasar
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AMBER has detected fringes on 3C273, a quasar of K=10, thanks to a new observing mode that will soon be available to all observers. More info can be found in the press releases.
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Saturday
12
February
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AMBER data reduction workshop in 2011
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The JMMC is organizing the 3rd AMBER Science and Data Reduction JMMC Workshop in Grenoble, on 21-22 Mar 2011. This is the opportunity to present the new amdlib v3 version of the AMBER data reduction software to gather the astronomers who have obtained AMBER data. This will be the occasion to (...)
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Wednesday
26
January
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AMBER switches to 3D
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AMBER has made its first velocity-resolved image this year. The image is of a hot supergiant star, which is revealed to host a disk similar to the disks around younger stars. This resut is reported in an A&A paper and in several press releases in French, German and English (here, and here) (...)
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Wednesday
21
July
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Release of AMBER data reduction package version 3.0
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On behalf of the JMMC AMBER data reduction working group, we are pleased to announce the release of the version 3.0 of the AMBER data processing package.
You can find it on the JMMC website together with an installation guide, a user’s manual and demo data/script.
This release contains (...)
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Wednesday
23
June
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AMBER handed over to ESO
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The “Provisional Acceptance Chili” (PAC) of AMBER has been declared “closed” on May 20, 2010 by Mark Casali, head of the Instrumentation division of ESO. This means that ESO considers that the instrument is finished and operates within specifications, (or within accepted (...)
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