Authors
Roelof S De Jong, Oscar Agertz, A Agudo Berbel, James Aird, David A Alexander, Anish Amarsi, Friedrich Anders, Rene Andrae, Behzad Ansarinejad, Wolfgang Ansorge, Pierre Antilogus, Heiko Anwand-Heerwart, Anke Arentsen, Anna Arnadottir, Martin Asplund, Matt Auger, Nicolas Azais, Dietrich Baade, Gabriella Baker, Sufyan Baker, Eduardo Balbinot, Ivan K Baldry, Manda Banerji, Samuel Barden, Paul Barklem, Eléonore Barthélémy-Mazot, Chiara Battistini, Svend Bauer, Cameron PM Bell, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Sabine Bellstedt, Vasily Belokurov, Thomas Bensby, Maria Bergemann, Joachim M Bestenlehner, Richard Bielby, Maciej Bilicki, Chris Blake, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Corrado Boeche, Wilfried Boland, Thomas Boller, Sebastien Bongard, Angela Bongiorno, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Didier Boudon, David Brooks, Michael JI Brown, Rebecca Brown, Marcus Brüggen, Joar Brynnel, Jurek Brzeski, Thomas Buchert, Peter Buschkamp, Elisabetta Caffau, Patrick Caillier, Jonathan Carrick, Luca Casagrande, Scott Case, Andrew Casey, Isabella Cesarini, Gabriele Cescutti, Diane Chapuis, Cristina Chiappini, Michael Childress, Norbert Christlieb, Ross Church, M-RL Cioni, Michelle Cluver, Matthew Colless, Thomas Collett, Johan Comparat, Andrew Cooper, Warrick Couch, Frederic Courbin, Scott Croom, Darren Croton, Eric Daguisé, Gavin Dalton, Luke JM Davies, Tamara Davis, Patrick De Laverny, Alis Deason, Frank Dionies, Karen Disseau, Peter Doel, Daniel Döscher, Simon P Driver, Tom Dwelly, Dominique Eckert, Alastair Edge, Bengt Edvardsson, D El Youssoufi, Ahmed Elhaddad, Harry Enke, Ghazaleh Erfanianfar, Tony Farrell, Thomas Fechner, Carmen Feiz, Sofia Feltzing, Ignacio Ferreras, Dietrich Feuerstein, Diane Feuillet, Alexis Finoguenov, Dominic Ford, Sotiria Fotopoulou, Morgan Fouesneau, Carlos Frenk, Steffen Frey, Wolfgang Gaessler, Stephan Geier, N Gentile Fusillo, Ortwin Gerhard, Tommaso Giannantonio, Domenico Giannone, Brad Gibson, Peter Gillingham, Carlos González-Fernández, Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares, Stefan Gottloeber, Andrew Gould, Eva K Grebel, Alain Gueguen, Guillaume Guiglion, Martin Haehnelt, Thomas Hahn, Camilla J Hansen, Henrik Hartman, Katja Hauptner, Keith Hawkins, Dionne Haynes, Roger Haynes, Ulrike Heiter, Amina Helmi, C Hernandez Aguayo, Paul Hewett, Samuel Hinton, David Hobbs, Sebastian Hoenig, David Hofman, Isobel Hook, Joshua Hopgood, Andrew Hopkins, Anna Hourihane, Louise Howes, Cullan Howlett, Tristan Huet, Mike Irwin, Olaf Iwert, Pascale Jablonka
Publication date
2019/3/6
Journal
arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02464
Description
We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal. Its key specifications are: a large field of view (FoV) of 4.2 square degrees and a high multiplex capability, with 1624 fibres feeding two low-resolution spectrographs (), and 812 fibres transferring light to the high-resolution spectrograph (). After a description of the instrument and its expected performance, a short overview is given of its operational scheme and planned 4MOST Consortium science; these aspects are covered in more detail in other articles in this edition of The Messenger. Finally, the processes, schedules, and policies concerning the selection of ESO Community Surveys are presented, commencing with a singular opportunity to submit Letters of Intent for Public Surveys during the first five years of 4MOST operations.
Scholar articles
RS De Jong, O Agertz, AA Berbel, J Aird, DA Alexander… - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02464, 2019