Untitled - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble

Mixed GRIL-other team profiles
1. Adaptive optics instrumental development
Goal: Increase the LAOG capabilities in AO instrumentation. Because of our major involvement in the
large PF project, we need to increase our capabilities of integration of AO-based instrumentation by
recruiting an astrophysicist with experience in the final tests and performance analysis as well as in the
operation and exploitation of AO imagers. Such a profile, with instrumentation as a secondary motivation
(ideally CNAP ”services d’observation”), should appear both in GRIL and in a thematic team.
Target: 2007 or 2008
2. NIR interferometric spectro-imaging
Goal: Exploitation of the new imaging capabilities of the VLTI. Second generation instruments, such as
VITRUV, will provide unprecedented imaging capabilities to the VLTI. The need is to prepare adequately
the LAOG to the optimized exploitation of this mode by recruting a researcher directly involved in the
VLTI 2nd generation instrumentation realisation. Such a profile, with instrumentation as additional
competence and motivation, could appear both in GRIL and in a thematic team.
Target: 2009
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