Published on May 22, 2022

The Crystal Medal of the french National Center for Scientific Research distinguishes women and men, research support staff, who by their creativity, technical mastery and sense of innovation, contribute to the advancement of knowledge and the excellence of French research.
Congratulations to Laurent!
The award ceremony organized by the CNRS Alps delegation will take place on November 14 at 2pm at the Grenoble Congress Center.

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Published on April 25, 2022

The JMMC is present at the Exeter meeting!
Monday, April 25 at 10 a.m., Laurent Bourgès will mainly present Aspro2 updates and new capabilities, and at 11 a.m., Ferréol Soulez will describe the latest release of OImaging.
The first presentation of the conference made by Mercedes Filho will be dedicated to the VLTI european Centers of Expertise including the French one managed by the JMMC.
More information on the website of "The sharpest Eyes on the Sky" conference.

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Published on March 23, 2022

You use Aspro2 to prepare the observations on your Science Target.
Let us know that you can with it easily check if your target and its calibrators have been already observed with the instruments MIDI, AMBER, PIONIER, GRAVITY or MATISSE: the command Get Observations in the Aspro2 top-menu (Edit) will display on the page the list of these observations.
That has been made possible thanks to the development of ObsPortal.

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Published on March 21, 2022

Features: Improved tooltips on the observability plot to display angular distances on science objects to calibrator and ancillary stars (AO, FT, GS) Improved tooltips in Target Editor’s navigation trees to display angular distances on calibrator and ancillary stars (AO, FT, GS) to their science object Added new CHARA fixed PoPs widgets to define PoPs associated to stations (’-’ means any Pop value [1-5]) Improved displayed CHARA Current & Fixed PoPs to use the station order given by the (…)

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Published on March 18, 2022

In order to assist you in your GRAVITY-Wide proposal preparation, JMMC tech group has setup a simple tool that allows off-axis fringe tracking targets to be queried.
https://searchftt.jmmc.fr/index.html
As you will see, at the moment, the tool has minimalist features and we welcome suggestions for corrections and future evolutions (through the "feedback form" link).
Good proposal preparation!

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Published on January 03, 2022

from the JMMC teams.
We wish you all the best for 2022! In particular very good interferometric observations and nice astrophysical results! Your feedback about your needs or your requests will always be welcome, via our form and, perhaps, via exchanges during a next meeting.
For the record, here are some conferences planned this year dedicated on optical and infrared interferometry: the meeting in Exeter, April 25-29, "The sharpest Eyes on the Sky", the Special Session of the EAS (…)

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Published on June 10, 2021

New version of AMHRA v1.4 update: New ALDES model (Analytical Limb-darkening Elliptical or Spherical) and various fixes.

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Published on January 29, 2020

We are happy to announce a new release of A2P2 on Pypi (https://pypi.org/project/a2p2 ). This version is ready for P105 and fixes some bugs.
Release notes: A2P2 : Fix release notes order in the GUI Handle special jmmc account, kindly set by ESO colleagues to perfom future tests as closed as possible to the real UX VLTI : Display instrument package version in the container table Limit keyword set on P2 only to the modified ones. No more default values from our static config are sent so (…)

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Published on September 19, 2019

Features: Added tooltip in the UV Coverage panel on the ’atmosphere quality’ combo box Fixed noise modelling for MATISSE LM & N Added the G magnitude in Simbad resolver and Target Editor, used by AO if missing R mag (NAOMI) Improved observability plot to support the new ’Hide ancillary stars’ filter (any FT, AO, Guide star) Improved observability plot to use the color of the first target group (if any) as shown in the legend Improved tooltips on targets to always indicate target groups (…)

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