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Monday 16 Oct 2017: CRIRES plus update and near infrared diffuse interstellar bands
Dr. Jonathan Smoker - ESO
Physics 4th Floor 11:00-12:00
The CRIRES upgrade project, CRIRES+, will transform this high spectral
resolution VLT infrared instrument into a cross-dispersed spectrograph,
increasing the simultaneous wavelength coverage by a factor of around
ten. In this talk I will present the expected capabilities of the
upgraded CRIRES. Some results obtained with the original CRIRES will
also be shown where we investigate near-Infrared diffuse interstellar
bands and their small and tiny-scale structure. In particular, the use
of the MOLECFIT tool to correct astronomical spectra for telluric line
contamination will be presented.