SPHERE Science Verification

Bruno Leibundgut; Jean-Luc Beuzit; Neale Gibson; Julien  Girard; Markus  Kasper; Florian  Kerber; Lars Lundin; Dimitri  Mawet; Melissa McClure; Julien Milli; Monika Petr-Gotzens; Ralf Siebenmorgen; Mario van den Ancker; Zahed Wahhaj

SPHERE Science Verification

Bruno Leibundgut
, Jean-Luc Beuzit
, Neale Gibson
, Julien Girard
, Markus Kasper
, Florian Kerber
, Lars Lundin
, Dimitri Mawet
, Melissa McClure
, Julien Milli
, Monika Petr-Gotzens
, Ralf Siebenmorgen
, Mario van den Ancker
, Zahed Wahhaj

School of Mathematics and Physics

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Science Verification (SV) for the latest instrument to arrive on Paranal, the high-contrast and spectro-polarimetric extreme adaptive optics instrument SPHERE, is described. The process through which the SV proposals were solicited and evaluated is briefly outlined; the resulting observations took place in December 2014 and February 2015. A wide range of targets was observed, ranging from the Solar System, young stars with planets and discs, circumstellar environments of evolved stars to a galaxy nucleus. Some of the first results are previewed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2-5
Journal	The Messenger
Volume	159
Publication status	Published - 01 Mar 2015

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