Starting in 24B, Apero 0.7.288 is used for the quicklook reduction. Check you data in your 'quicklook' distribution folder. The quicklook data are usually available within the next 6h following the end of the night. Those data aren't sent to CADC, only raw and 'offline' data are. The full 'offline' reprocessing including 24A data is ongoing.

The full SPIRou data set from 18B to 24AQ03 (March run) has been reprocessed at CFHT with the 0.7.288 version of the Apero pipeline and are available at CADC.

The full SPIRou data set from 18B to 23A has been reprocessed with the 0.7.286 version of the Apero pipeline. The new products are being sent to CADC. For the night+12h reduction ("Quicklook") the 0.6.132 is still used.

The full set of SPIRou data from 19A to 21B has been processed with the 0.6.132 and is available at CADC. For each star, a unique template based on all observations between Feb 2019 and Sept 2021 has been built and used for a new telluric correction. PI are encouraged to use the publicly available CCF tool from E. Martioli (Martioli et al. 2022) to get the best RV from their data. The code is available from github.

New DRS version 0.6.132 is installed to re-process SPIRou data.

SPIRou receives new rhombs. The instrument efficiency is improved by a factor of 2.7 at 1 micron and of the order of 30% in H.

First science observations for SPIRou!

SPIRou passes the Final Acceptance Review! Science observations will start mid February

First light on sky! A successful first light is followed by three commissioning runs (end of April, end of May, and end of July) where engineering observations are performed to quantify the instrument performances.

First images with the H4RG detector are of exquisite quality. Also the full spectral range is seen for the first time. The pipeline team is working to adapt the data reduction system to the new data format.

The first functionnal tests on SPIRou are ongoing. The cryostat was closed, pumped and cooled down from February 16 to March 15 for its first thermal cycle. Also, on March 5, the Cassegrain unit was successfully tested for acquisition and guiding on typical stars that SPIRou will observe. The guiding system as well as the cryogenic spectrograph have been behaving in the expected way and shown similar performances than before their dismounting and shipping.

A second cycle has been started on March 23, after the inclusion of the final H4RG detector at the focal plane.

SPIRou has been shipped to CFHT. It was then installed in the coude room at the end of January.

Performance and characterization of SPIRou are ongoing in the lab in Toulouse . An acceptance review follows and decides that the instrument is ready for the next phase of its life, atop Maunakea.

SPIRou just had its first light in the lab! Read the full story by the SPIRou team. As expected, more iterations are necessary to optimize the system alignement. Several calibration lamps were observed and the echelle orders look as expected.