Conveners
Mini-Session: ESO
- Sarah Brough (UNSW)
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Sarah Brough (UNSW)08/07/2025, 14:50Oral
I will provide an update on Australia’s strategic partnership with ESO and a progress report on the case for full Australian membership. I will also update usage of ESO facilities by Australian astronomers, new instrumentation programs (especially those with Australian involvement), and other new opportunities including the Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) and Australia’s involvement in...
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Tony Travouillon (Australian National University)08/07/2025, 15:00Oral
While the construction of the ELT is well underway, the ESO community is already preparing for its next telescope project. A down selection is in fact already scheduled for the end of 2026. The leading contender, the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is progressing its design with several contributing institutions across Europe and Australia. We will report on the telescope design...
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Richard McDermid (Macquarie University)08/07/2025, 15:10Oral
MAVIS (MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) is a new facility instrument for the ESO VLT being built by an Australian (Astralis - lead), Italian (INAF) and French (LAM) consortium. MAVIS pushes the frontier of new instrument technologies to provide, for the first time, wide-field, diffraction-limited angular resolution at visible wavelengths. Enhancing the VLT Adaptive Optics...
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