MUSE Documentation
In this page, you will find all the manuals needed to prepare and analyze your observations with MUSE. Please be sure to download that corresponding to the period in which the observations will take place. All the manuals are in Adobe's Acrobat format.
Reference paper for MUSE: Bacon et al., SPIE 7735, 7 (2010).
Papers using AO data please reference: Strobele et al. (2012), and Arsenault et al. (2008).
Reference papers for MUSE deep-fields: Bacon et al., A&A 608, 1 (2017).
Reference paper for MUSE pipeline: Weilbacher et al. arXiv:2006.08638
MUSE User Manuals
All the information about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics:
- Period 115 Phase 1 (March 2025 - Oct 2025)
- Period 113 Phase 1 and 2 (March 2024 - Oct 2024 - no chnage in P114)
- Period 112 Phase 1 and 2 (Oct 2023 - March 2024) change on IROLS NGS limiting magnitude.
- Period 110 Phase 1 and 2 (Oct 2022 - March 2023 - no change in P111)
- Period 109 Phase 1 and 2 (April 2022 - Sep 2022)
- Period 108 Phase 1 and 2 (Oct 2021 - March 2022)
- Period 107 Phase 1 and 2
- Period 106, Phase 1 and 2
- Period 105, Phase 1 and 2
- Manuals for older periods
MUSE Pipeline Manual
- Last version can be found at the muse pipeline page.