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Project core team
ESPaDOnS
project team and budget
A total of 15 scientist/engineers/technicians/administrators, mostly from Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, were involved for about
5 years (from 1999 to 2004) in the design, construction and integration of ESPaDOnS:
Jean-François Donati as principal investigator and system scientist (optics, mechanics);
Jean-Pierre Dupin as project manager and system engineer (control hardware/software, ccd);
Laurent Parès, Hervé Valentin and Patrick Rabou (LAOG) for the optical design, integration and tests;
Gérard Gallou and Driss Kouach for the mechanical design, integration and tests;
Sébastien Baratchart, Pierre Tilloles and Elodie Bourrec for the control software;
Guy Delaigue for the control hardware;
Francis Beigbeder for the scientific ccd;
Patrick Couderc for the integration of the scientific ccd and packaging;
Anne-Marie Cousin and Eric Brune for the administration.
On the cfht side, a number of scientists/engineers (Greg Barrick, William Rambold, Tom Vermeulen, Todd Szarlan, Sidik Isani,
Jeff Ward, Nadine Manset and Remi Cabanac) were also involved sporadically in advising the ESPaDOnS team during the
construction, in testing the instrument once integrated and in setting up the graphical user interface.
International contacts
Although not directly associated with the design and construction of the instrument, a few other scientists were also actively
involved throughout the whole project duration, in particular for helping attracting official’s interest on ESPaDOnS and raising
the funds needed to start and complete the construction:
Budget
Claude Catala from Observatoire de Paris/Meudon (France);
John Landstreet from University of Western Ontario (Canada);
Bernard Foing from RSSD/ESTEC/ESA (Netherland).
The total project budget is 755 k
Funds were provided by:
France (CNRS & MEN, 260 k ); half (132 k )
comes from CNRS/INSU or MEN directly, while the
other half comes from the Laboratoire
d’Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT, 71 k ),
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