Speaker
Ross Church
(Astrophysics division, Lund University)
Description
4MOST is a project to build a multi-fibre spectrograph and use it to carry out a massive spectroscopic survey of stars and galaxies. The 4MOST consortium has members from across the Nordic and Baltic nations with diverse interests including galactic structure and history, stellar populations and observational cosmology. The instrument has been installed and commissioned on ESO's VISTA telescope and, by the time of the meeting, we will have carried out scientific validation and be preparing the first public data release. I will describe the project, how the survey works, and what you can expect from the first data.