PHANGS-ML: Dissecting Multiphase Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies Using Machine Learning by Baron, D, Sandstrom, KM, Rosolowsky, E, Egorov, OV, Klessen, RS, Leroy, AK, Boquien, M, Schinnerer, E, Belfiore, F, Groves, B, Chastenet, J, Dale, DA, Blanc, GA, Méndez-Delgado, JE, Koch, EW, Grasha, K, Chevance, M, Thilker, DA, Colombo, D, Williams, TG, Pathak, D, Sutter, J, Brown, T, Wu, JF

“…The PHANGS survey uses Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Hubble Space Telescope, Very Large Telescope, and JWST to obtain an unprecedented high-resolution view of nearby galaxies, covering millions of spatially independent regions. …”

Characterising KMOS and scaling relations in the rich cluster MS0451.6-0305 by Masters, R, Richard Masters

“…</p><p>Part I: The K-Band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) is a new near infra-red (NIR) instru- ment to be installed at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). KMOS is capable of spatially resolved kinematics via 24 deployable integral field units (IFUs), each with a 2.8′′ field of view. …”

Latitudinal variation of methane mole fraction above clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE-NFM: limb-darkening reanalysis by Irwin, PGJ, Dobinson, J, James, A, Toledo, D, Teanby, NA, Fletcher, LN, Orton, GS, Pérez-Hoyos, S

“…We present a reanalysis of visible/near-infrared (480–930 nm) observations of Neptune, made in 2018 with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Narrow Field Adaptive Optics mode, reported by Irwin et al., Icarus, 311, 2019. …”

SPECTRA AND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE LIGHT CURVES OF SIX TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE AT 0.511 &lt; z &lt; 1.12 AND THE UNION2 COMPILATION by Amanullah, R, Lidman, C, Rubin, D, Aldering, G, Astier, P, Barbary, K, Burns, MS, Conley, A, Dawson, K, Deustua, SE, Doi, M, Fabbro, S, Faccioli, L, Fakhouri, H, Folatelli, G, Fruchter, A, Furusawa, H, Garavini, G, Goldhaber, G, Goobar, A, Groom, D, Hook, I, Howell, D, Kashikawa, N, Kim, A

“…Additionally, for the two SNe with z &gt; 1, we present ground-based J-band photometry from Gemini and the Very Large Telescope. These are among the most distant SNe Ia for which ground-based near-IR observations have been obtained. …”

The mass of the black hole in Centaurus A from SINFONI AO-assisted integral-field observations of stellar kinematics by Cappellari, M, Neumayer, N, Reunanen, J, van der Werf, P, de Zeeuw, P, Rix, H

“…The observations were obtained with SINFONI (Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observations in the Near Infrared) at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope in the near-infrared (IR) (K band), using adaptive optics (AO) to correct for the blurring effect of the Earth's atmosphere. …”

CoRoT 223992193: A new, low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary with evidence of a circumbinary disk by Gillen, E, Aigrain, S, McQuillan, A, Bouvier, J, Hodgkin, S, Alencar, S, Terquem, C, Southworth, J, Gibson, N, Cody, A, Lendl, M, Morales-Calderón, M, Favata, F, Stauffer, J, Micela, G

“…Using multi-epoch optical and near-IR follow-up spectroscopy with FLAMES on the Very Large Telescope and ISIS on the William Herschel Telescope we obtain a full orbital solution and derive the fundamental parameters of both stars by modelling the light curve and radial velocity data. …”

Jupiter's stratospheric hydrocarbons and temperatures after the July 2009 impact from VLT infrared spectroscopy by Fletcher, L, Orton, G, de Pater, I, Mousis, O

“…Images and high-resolution spectra of methane, ethane and acetylene emission (7-13 μm) from the 2009 impact site were obtained by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) mid-infrared camera/spectrometer instrument, VISIR. …”

Post-conjunction detection of β Pictoris b with VLT/SPHERE by Lagrange, A, Boccaletti, A, Langlois, M, Chauvin, G, Gratton, R, Beust, H, Desidera, S, Milli, J, Bonnefoy, M, Feldt, M, Meyer, M, Vigan, A, Biller, B, Bonavita, M, Baudino, J, Cantalloube, F, Cudel, M, Daemgen, S, Delorme, P, Dorazi, V, Girard, J, Fontanive, C, Hagelberg, J, Janson, M, Keppler, M, Koypitova, T, Galicher, R, Lannier, J, Coroller, H, Ligi, R, Maire, A, Mesa, D, Messina, S, Mueller, A, Peretti, S, Perrot, C, Rouan, D, Salter, G, Samland, M, Schmidt, T, Sissa, E, Zurlo, A, Beuzit, J, Mouillet, D, Dominik, C, Henning, T, Lagadec, E, Menard, F, Schmid, H, Udry, S, Consortium, TSPHERE

“…With the exception of the discovery observations in 2003 with NaCo at the Very Large Telescope (VLT), all following astrometric measurements relative to β Pictoris have been obtained in the southwestern part of the orbit, which severely limits the determination of the planet’s orbital parameters. …”

Velocity Dispersion of the Open Cluster NGC 2571 by Radial Velocities and Proper Motions by Maxim V. Kulesh, Aleksandra E. Samirkhanova, Giovanni Carraro, Joao V. Sales-Silva, Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta, Anton F. Seleznev

“…We derive the 3D velocity dispersion using both proper motions as extracted from Gaia Data Release 3 and single-epoch radial velocities as obtained with the instrument FLAMES at ESO's Very Large Telescope. The mean-square velocity along the line of sight is found to be larger than the one in the tangential direction by a factor of 6–8. …”
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Spectroastrometric Reverberation Mapping of Broad-line Regions by Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang

“…The application to realistic observation data of 3C 273 obtains tentative, but enlightening results, reinforcing the practical feasibility of conducting spectroastrometric RM experiments on bright AGNs with the operating Very Large Telescope Interferometer as well as possibly with the planned next-generation 30 m class telescopes.…”
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Toward Precision Cosmology with Improved Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function Distances Using VLT-MUSE. II. A Test Sample from Archival Data by George H. Jacoby, Robin Ciardullo, Martin M. Roth, Magda Arnaboldi, Peter M. Weilbacher

“…Thanks to the MUSE integral field spectrograph on board the Very Large Telescope (VLT), extragalactic distance measurements with the [O iii ] λ 5007 planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) are now possible out to ∼40 Mpc. …”
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DETECTION OF MOLECULAR ABSORPTION IN THE DAYSIDE OF EXOPLANET 51 PEGASI b? by Brogi, M., Snellen, I. A. G., de Kok, R. J., Albrecht, Simon H., Birkby, J. L., de Mooij, E. J. W.

“…In this paper, we present ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy of 51 Pegasi using CRIRES at the Very Large Telescope. The system was observed for 3 × 5 hr at 2.3 μm at a spectral resolution of R = 100,000, targeting potential signatures from carbon monoxide, water vapor, and methane in the planet's dayside spectrum. …”
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NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN A PRIMORDIAL SUPERNOVA: CARBON AND OXYGEN ABUNDANCES IN SMSS J031300.36–670839.3 by Bessell, Michael S., Collet, Remo, Keller, Stefan C., Heger, Alexander, Casey, Andrew R., Masseron, Thomas, Asplund, Martin, Lind, Karin, Marino, Anna F., Norris, John E., Yong, David, Da Costa, Gary, Chan, Conrad, Magic, Zazralt, Schmidt, Brian, Tisserand, Patrick, Frebel, Anna L., Jacobson, Heather

“…SMSS J031300.36–670839.3 (hereafter SM0313–6708) is a sub-giant halo star, with no detectable Fe lines and large overabundances of C and Mg relative to Ca. We obtained Very Large Telescope–Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) spectra extending to 3060 Å showing strong OH A-X band lines enabling an oxygen abundance to be derived. …”
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Recovery and characterization of Neptunes near-polar stratospheric hot spot by Orton, G, Fletcher, L, Liu, J, Schneider, T, Yanamandra-Fisher, P, De Pater, I, Edwards, M, Geballe, T, Hammel, H, Fujiyoshi, T, Encrenaz, T, Pantin, E, Mousis, O, Fuse, T

“…Images of Neptune obtained in 2006 at ESOs Very Large Telescope (Orton et al.; 2007, Astronomy and Astrophysics 473, L5) revealed a near-polar hot spot near 70°S latitude that was detectable in filters sampling both stratospheric methane (7 μm) and ethane (∼12 μm) emission. …”

Quantifying the Escape of Ly α at z ≈ 5–6: A Census of Ly α Escape Fraction with H α -emitting Galaxies Spectroscopically Confirmed by JWST and VLT/MUSE by Lin, X, Cai, Z, Wu, Y, Li, Z, Sun, F, Fan, X, Chen, Z, Li, M, Bian, F, Ning, Y, Jiang, L, Bruzual, G, Charlot, S, Chevallard, J

“…We search for Lyα emission of each Hα-emitting galaxy in the Very Large Telescope/MUSE data. The overall f esc,Lyα measured by stacking is 0.090 ± 0.006. …”

Constraining the properties of HD 206893 B. A combination of radial velocity, direct imaging, and astrometry data by Grandjean, A, Lagrange, A, Beust, H, Rodet, L, Milli, J, Rubini, P, Babusiaux, C, Meunier, N, Delorme, P, Aigrain, S, Zicher, N, Bonnefoy, M, Biller, B, Baudino, J, Bonavita, M, Boccaletti, A, Cheetham, A, Girard, J, Hagelberg, J, Janson, M, Lannier, J, Lazzoni, C, Ligi, R, Maire, A, Mesa, D, Perrot, C, Rouan, D, Zurlo, A

“…A brown dwarf was discovered with the VLT/SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2017, which orbits at ∼11 au around HD 206893. …”

Spectral analysis of Uranus' 2014 bright storm with VLT/SINFONI by Irwin, P, Fletcher, L, Read, P, Tice, D, de Pater, I, Orton, G, Teanby, N, Davis, G

“…Observations of the storm system in the near infrared were acquired in October and November 2014 with SINFONI on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. SINFONI is an Integral Field Unit spectrometer returning 64. ×. 64 pixel images with 2048 wavelengths and uses adaptive optics. …”

Outflows of hot molecular gas in ultra-luminous infrared galaxies mapped with VLT-SINFONI by Emonts, B, Colina, L, Piqueras-López, J, Garcia-Burillo, S, Pereira-Santaella, M, Arribas, S, Labiano, A, Alonso-Herrero, A

“…We present the detection and morphological characterization of hot molecular gas outflows in nearby ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), using the Spectrograph for Integral Field Observations in the Near Infrared (SINFONI) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT). We detect outflows observed in the 2.12 μm H2 1-0 S(1) line for three out of four ULIRGs that we analyzed, namely IRAS 12112+0305, IRAS 14348-1447, and IRAS 22491-1808. …”

The planetary nebulae population in the central regions of M32: the SAURON view by Sarzi, M, Mamon, G, Cappellari, M, Emsellem, E, Bacon, R, Davies, R, de Zeeuw, P

“…Considering the modest time investment on a 4-m-class telescope that delivered these results, this study illustrates the potential of future IFS investigations for the central PNe population of early-type galaxies, either with existing SAURON data for many more, albeit more distant, objects, or from campaigns that will use the future generations of integral field spectrographs that will be mounted on 8-m-class telescopes, such as MUSE on the Very Large Telescope. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS.…”

Analysis of gaseous ammonia (NH3) absorption in the visible spectrum of Jupiter by Irwin, P, Bowles, N, Braude, A, Garland, R, Calcutt, S

“…Observations of the visible/near-infrared reflectance spectrum of Jupiter have been made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument in the spectral range 0.48 – 0.93 μm in support of the NASA/Juno mission. …”