Annual Scientific Meeting & Harley Wood School

Session

Mini-Session

Jul 8, 2025, 2:50 PM

University of Adelaide

Conveners

Mini-Session: ESO

• Sarah Brough (UNSW)

23. ESO Update and Progress towards Full Membership

Sarah Brough (UNSW)

7/8/25, 2:50 PM

Oral

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...

177. The Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope: ESO’s next big telescope?

Tony Travouillon (Australian National University)

7/8/25, 3:00 PM

Oral

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...

82. MAVIS - A new facility instrument for the ESO VLT Adaptive Optics Facility

Richard McDermid (Macquarie University)

7/8/25, 3:10 PM

Oral

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...

187. Q&A

7/8/25, 3:20 PM