Summary

HAWK-I is a cryogenic wide-field imager installed at the Nasmyth A focus of UT4. The on-sky field of view is 7.5'x7.5', with a cross-shaped gap of 15" between the four HAWAII 2RG 2048x2048 pixels detectors. The pixel scale is of 0.106".
The instrument is offered with 10 observing filters placed in two filter wheels: 4 broad band filters (Y, J, H & K) and 6 narrow band filters (Bracket gamma, CH4, H2, 1.061 μm, 1.187 μm & 2.090 μm).

Publications based on data obtained with the HAWK-I instrument should quote the following reference papers:

• Pirard et al., 2004, SPIE 5492, 510
• Casali et al., 2006, SPIE 6269, 29
• Kissler-Patig et al., 2008, A&A 491, 941
• Siebenmorgen et al., 2011, The Messenger 144, 9

Publications based on the HAWK-I + GRAAL AO observations should quote the following reference papers:

• Arsenault et al., 2008, SPIE, 7015, 24
• Paufique et al., 2010, SPIE, 7736, 1

Contact Information

• Questions related to proposal preparation, service mode, and visitor mode observations should be addressed via the contact form at  ESO Operations Helpdesk.
• Please, send us your general feedback, comments, suggestions, or report errors and inaccurate statements in the web pages and manuals also via this contact form.

Content of these pages

The following items are available on all the HAWK-I pages, using the bar on the left.

• Overview: a short description of the instrument;
• News: list of changes affecting the instrument and/or its pages;
• Instrument Description: all the important parameters of the instrument;
• Manuals: links to all the documents related to HAWK-I;
• Tools: a collection of useful tools and informations for preparing; and analyzing the HAWK-I observations;
• Instrument Operations Team;
• Visitor Instructions: Instrument specific instructions for Visiting Astronomers;
• HAWK-I based scientific publications;