ESO Data Course 2026
Check out the links and relevant resources at the bottom of this page
Venue: Dentalia building Lemminkäisenkatu 2, 20520 Turku
Programme
Mon. 30.3 Venue: DEN280 (1 floor up, follow signs to “Sali 3”)
09:00–09:15 Format and plan of this course; R. Kotak
09:15–10:15 Overview of ground-based facilities; P. Väisänen
10:15–11:00 ESO data reduction pipeline and archive overview; R. Kotak
11:10–12:00 Introduction to 4MOST Lecture 1; A. Finoguenov
12:00–13:00 Lunch (own cost)
13:05–16:00 Introduction to integral field spectroscopy + MUSE notes and exercises
H. Kuncarayakti + T. Kravtsov. MUSE data linked here
Tue. 31.3 Venue: DEN280
09:00–10:00 Introduction to ESO-Reflex / R. Kotak
Reflex demo + UVES data retrieval and processing
10:00–11:00 4MOST + pipeline setup Lecture 2; A. Finoguenov / J. Kosowski
11:10–12:00 Introduction to radio/sub-mm astronomy — Part 1 T. Hovatta / B. Jenner
12:00–13:00 Lunch (own cost)
13:05–16:00 Introduction to wide-field imaging + VST exercises Lecture slides
M. Poulain
Wed. 1.4 Venue: DEN280
09:00–10:00 Basics of proposal preparation and writing Notes / Assignment R. Kotak
10:10–12:00 Exercises using DESI data and 4MOST software / J. Kosowski
4MOST notes and tasks
12:00–13:00 Lunch (own cost)
13:05–16:00
Introduction to radio/sub-mm astronomy — Part 2 T. Hovatta / B. Jenner
Visualising and analysing data from ALMA. Notes from hands-on session T. Hovatta / B. Jenner
ALMA assignment
Deadlines for exercises / assignments
There are 5 assessed assignments for this course — see list below. Please make sure you follow the following guidelines regarding format:
– submit pdf files (only) to the relevant person as indicated below
– the file name should be your_surname_ assignment name.pdf
All assignments will be equally weighted when calculating the final grade.
The deadline for submission of all assignments is 6p.m. Friday 1st of May
Important: the CSC supercomputer (Puhti) will be decomissioned later this Spring, so please copy over any reduced data or other files that you need for your assignments as all material related to this course will probably not be accessible after May.
- Proposal for telescope time (assignment name: “sciprop”) rubina.kotak_at_utu.fi
- MUSE (assignment name: “muse”) hankun_at_utu.fi
- ALMA (assignment name: “alma”) talvikki.hovatta_at_utu.fi
- VST (assignment name: “vst”) melina.poulain_at_oulu.fi
- 4MOST (assignment name: “4most”) alexis.finoguenov_at_helsinki.fi, jacob.kosowski_at_helsinki.fi (send to both)