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<p class="">The 106<sup class="">th</sup> Observing Programmes Committee (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4_RuCjZ1N7i2N8QECY3wdt?domain=eso.org" adhocenable="false" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">OPC</a>)
met online on 29-30 June 2020. Based on the committee's recommendations to the ESO Director General, a total of 2688 (8-hour equivalent) nights of Visitor Mode and Service Mode observations were allocated on the <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/szyxCk81N9t7G9zltyoXtK?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">VLT/VLTI</a>, <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/G2SuClx1Njiy4xNGHD7qNM?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">VISTA</a>, <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9yg9CmO5gluZ4zNXtEMqBA?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">VST</a>,
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<p class="">ESO's prestigious<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Bg20CwV1vMf7rK36tywQ3E?domain=eso.org" adhocenable="false" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">postdoctoral
fellowship programme</a> in both Garching (Germany) and Santiago (Chile) offers outstanding early-career scientists the opportunity to further develop their independent research programmes. From exoplanets to cosmology, observational, theoretical and fundamental
astrophysics, these are all areas where ESO Fellows can benefit from a highly dynamic scientific environment, at some of the most advanced ground-based telescopes in the world. Do watch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1M2UCxngwOfyNko8HyQeZn?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">ESOCast
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<p class="">Due to the evolving situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Chile, all ESO observatories continue in a safe state with no science operations taking place. Visitor mode runs until September 10 have been cancelled. Users have been informed individually
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<p class=""><b class="">ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 7-8 September 2020<br class="">
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ESO will organise the second edition of the La Silla Paranal Users Workshop as a series of online events, the first of which will take place in early September. If you are a La Silla Paranal Observatory user and are interested in the most up-to-date information,
learning how to use the ESO Science Archive Facility, reducing ESO data or "face-to-face" contact with ESO experts working on various support services, this first instalment of the workshop is for you.<br class="">
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<p class=""><strong class="">27 Jul 2020:</strong></p>
<p class="">The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the lives of ALMA staff and users around the world. Although in some of the ALMA regions the situation is slowly improving, in other regions, including Chile, the evolution of the outbreak remains highly
uncertain. Because of the on-going situation in Chile, ALMA operations unfortunately remain suspended. ALMA staff continue to monitor the situation very carefully and work on the development of detailed plans for the return to operations, which will be initiated
when the situation allows. ALMA will keep updating the user community on the developments.<br class="">
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website</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been renewed and improved in various areas. Some of the most remarkable updates are related to information about the recently upgraded telescope and new instrumentation available and the procedures
to follow in order to apply for telescope time in the different queues. Also several tools, at the service of researchers who want to user APEX for their research, have been improved. Among these are the observing time estimators, the atmospheric tool calculator
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<p class="">Ground-based astronomical observations in the thermal infrared wavelength regime (3-30 microns) provide a powerful tool to discover and characterise the most obscured and cool sources in the Universe. This workshop aims to bring together the experts
in the field to review the science highlights from various thermal infrared instruments, from protoplanetary discs to active galactic nuclei. Some future facilities will be reviewed, and techniques and approaches for observations and calibrations will be compared,
with the aim to reach the theoretical limit, the background-limited performance. This conference was originally planed for earlier this year and had to be postponed due to the Covid crisis. It will now be held online on 12-16 October. Participation is free
of charge and all sessions will be recorded. Please see the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CgNqCMwGxOtgmX4PtrFm7T?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">conference
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<p class=""><strong class="">24 Jul 2020:</strong></p>
<p class="">The exceptional global conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic have deeply affected science operations at ESO observatories, causing an unprecedented backlog of observations for high-priority programmes, including Large Programmes. ESO is studying
a variety of measures to complete those programmes at the earliest possible time once operations are resumed, which may require the exceptional suspension of the Call for Proposals for Period 107 (April-October 2021). While the decision is not firm yet, researchers
preparing or planning to submit proposals for Period 107 should take into account that such suspension is a real possibility.</p>
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<p class="">Version 6 of the ESO Science Data Products standard is now published. It is a complete revision and restructuring of the previously published version available on the ESO Phase 3 web site. It now integrates the information published as separate
addenda and in the Phase 3 frequently asked questions also. A major effort has been devoted to improve the readability and clarity of the text. Errors and typos have been corrected. The new version of the standard can be downloaded as a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a adhocenable="false" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QM84CQnMBZf8ZOjVHzSjWs?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">PDF
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<p class="">This data release provides 3D data cubes obtained from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a adhocenable="false" href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/V-ybCWLVXkU2oOm3CqSv7L?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">KMOS</a>,
the K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph. The instrument is located at the VLT UT1 telescope and has 24 image slicer Integral Field Units (IFUs) that can be placed independently in the patrol field of 7.2 arcmin diameter. Each IFU has 14 slices with 14 spatial
pixels along each slice and a field-of-view of 2.8x2.8 arcsec<sup class="">2</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which gives a spatial resolution of 0.2 arcsec. Spectral resolving power depends on the grating and is between 2000 and 4200. This
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<p class="">The Offices for Science and the Astronomy Faculty are very pleased to present the 2020 ESO Fellows. Here is an introduction to the Fellows due to start in Chile later this year.</p>
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<p class="">The Offices for Science and the Astronomy Faculty are very pleased to present the 2020 ESO Fellows. Here is an introduction to the Fellows due to start in Garching, Germany later this year.</p>
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<p class="">The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is a ground based exoplanet survey designed to detect Neptune and super-Earth sized planets orbiting around bright stars, using the transit method. The <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KzFdC4QOPEiykgKPHOxeaLu?domain=eso.org" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">NGTS
facility</a> consists of 12 fully-robotic 20 cm f/2.8 telescopes located at the ESO site on Paranal, Chile. Each telescope has a 2.8x2.8 deg<sup class="">2 </sup>field of view and is equipped with a custom filter with a bandpass of 520-890nm, which increases
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<p class="">This data release (DR5.1) is based on the observations acquired between February 2010 and October 2016 of 42 VMC survey tiles encompassing the whole Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the Magellanic Bridge and the Magellanic Stream components of the
survey. The total sky coverage is 40, 20, and 3 deg<sup class="">2</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the SMC, the Bridge, and the Stream, respectively. This release adds reduced and calibrated deep products (co-added tile images and related
single band catalogues), together with a multi-band (<i class="">YJKs</i>) aperture matched, epoch merged source catalogue for more than 14.6 million sources, three multi epoch single band catalogues, a catalogue of variable sources (39406 records) and a PSF
photometry catalogue. The total volume of this data release is about 166 Gb.</p>
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