NTE

A Collaboration Agreement was signed in February 2014 between the NOT and the NBI, Copenhagen, Denmark, to build the ``NOT Transient Explorer'' which consists of a medium resolution spectrograph covering the region from 350 nm to 1700 nm in two arms. This instrument is planned to be installed at the NOT in early 2018.

A significant amount of the management of the project is currently being done by NOT staff. In order to integrate the NTE project into the NOT organisation, key local staff was brought up-to-date with the state of the project. A small NTE workshop at the NOT office in San Antonio is being prepared to bring together the key people from the NBI and NOT to talk about the planning of the project towards the PDR which is foreseen for September this year.

As part of the NTE development, we have looked in more detail into the operation modes of the proposed NIR detectors 'H2RG' made by Teledyne, including the "SIDECAR" ASIC controller built by Teledyne specifically for these devices.