The System Architecture Review (SAR) of ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) was held at ESO headquarters in Garching on October 17-18, 2023. The IA instrumentation team was represented by Alexandre Cabral and Bachar Wehbe who are part of the Front-End subsystem, as well as part of the project management and the system engineers.

On November 15, 2023, ANDES received the certificate of provisional acceptance (PVA) of the SAR, which officially closes the Phase B1 contract with ESO. ESO has granted the PVA without reservation and offered the consortium one night of Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) on one of the instruments at the ELT telescope in return for the consortium’s contribution to the System Architecture Review.