WELCOME TO
The MIKiS Survey
of Galactic globular clusters
The Multi-Instrument Kinematic Survey of Galactic globular clusters (MIKiS survey; Ferraro et al. 2018) is a spectroscopic survey specifically designed to provide the velocity dispersion and rotation profiles of a representative sample of Milky Way globular clusters, from the measure of the line-of-sight velocity of hundreds individual stars over the entire radial extension of each system. With this aim, it takes advantage of the specific characteristics of different instruments installed at the ESO-VLT, allowing multi-object spectroscopy with the appropriate angular resolution, depending on the cluster radial region surveyed:
•MUSE/NFM and SINFONI provide diffraction-limited integral-field spectroscopy to properly sample the innermost, higly crowded central regions
•FLAMES in the GIRAFFE/MEDUSA mode and KMOS are used to survey the intermediate and external regions with seeing-limited multi-object spectroscopy
The survey is based on three ESO Large Programmes, all with Francesco Ferraro as Principal Investigator:
•193.D-0232 using FLAMES and KMOS
•197.D-0750 using SINFONI
•106.21N5 using MUSE
Additional companion projects and archival data are also used when available.