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CAFE has been upgraded during April-September 2018. It is now available with recovered grating efficiency and greatly improved temperature stability

The CAFE Project
Project Homepage Summary of the development of the instrument.
Publications Publications related to CAFE: Publications based on data obtained with CAFE instrument should quote the following reference paper. "CAFE: Calar Alto Fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph." Aceituno et al. A&A, 552,A31. Publications that make use of CAFE pipeline should quote the following reference paper. "CAFE2: an upgrade to the CAFE high-resolution spectrograph. Commissioning results and new public pipeline." Lillo-Box et al. MNRAS 491,4496.
Manuals and Guides
Observer's manual Information of how to use the instrument at the telescope.
CAFExtractor new pipeline A new pipeline to extract CAFE spectra is available. All the data collected by CAFE will be processed and extracted spectra, aswell as the raw data, provided to the CAFE users. This pipeline is described in Lillo-Box et al. The latest version of the code can be downloaded from Github repository (coming soon)
CAFE R3D old pipeline Information of how to reduce the data at the telescope, and how to get a copy of the pipeline.
Characteristics of the Instrument Main features
Sensitivities CAFE Exposure Time Simulator Radial velocity standards Calibrations Th-Ar lamp identification by orders Th-Ar lamp identification in a calibrated CAFE arc Spectral resolution Commissioning Report Description, Features, and properties (PDF)   Instrument news and status Show News (public) Add status (private)
The instrument has been founded by the Spanish Ministery of Science ICTS projects ICTS-2008-24 and ICTS-2009-32 (using FEDER funds), and by the Junta de Andalucia Proyecto de Excelencia P08-FQM-0360. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, “Una manera de hacer Europa”.