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4MOST : The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope project at preliminary design review

De Jong, Roelof S. ; Barden, Samuel C. ; Bellido-Tirado, Olga ; Brynnel, Joar G. ; Frey, Steffen ; Giannone, Domenico ; Haynes, Roger ; Johl, Diana ; Phillips, Daniel and Schnurr, Olivier , et al. (2016) Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 9908.
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We present an overview of the 4MOST project at the Preliminary Design Review. 4MOST is a major new wide-field, high-multiplex spectroscopic survey facility under development for the VISTA telescope of ESO. 4MOST has a broad range of science goals ranging from Galactic Archaeology and stellar physics to the high-energy physics, galaxy evolution, and cosmology. Starting in 2021, 4MOST will deploy 2436 fibres in a 4.1 square degree field-of-view using a positioner based on the tilting spine principle. The fibres will feed one high-resolution (R∼20,000) and two medium resolution (R∼5000) spectrographs with fixed 3-channel designs and identical 6k x 6k CCD detectors. 4MOST will have a unique operations concept in which 5-year public surveys... (More)

We present an overview of the 4MOST project at the Preliminary Design Review. 4MOST is a major new wide-field, high-multiplex spectroscopic survey facility under development for the VISTA telescope of ESO. 4MOST has a broad range of science goals ranging from Galactic Archaeology and stellar physics to the high-energy physics, galaxy evolution, and cosmology. Starting in 2021, 4MOST will deploy 2436 fibres in a 4.1 square degree field-of-view using a positioner based on the tilting spine principle. The fibres will feed one high-resolution (R∼20,000) and two medium resolution (R∼5000) spectrographs with fixed 3-channel designs and identical 6k x 6k CCD detectors. 4MOST will have a unique operations concept in which 5-year public surveys from both the consortium and the ESO community will be combined and observed in parallel during each exposure. The 4MOST Facility Simulator (4FS) was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of this observing concept, showing that we can expect to observe more than 25 million objects in each 5-year survey period and will eventually be used to plan and conduct the actual survey.

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EROSITA, Euclid, Facility simulator, Fibre-fed spectrographs, Gaia, PLATO, Science operations, Tilting-spine fibre postioner, VISTA telescope, Wide field corrector, Wide-field multi-object spectrograph facility
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Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
series title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
editor
Simard, Luc ; Evans, Christopher J. and Takami, Hideki
volume
9908
article number
99081O
publisher
SPIE
conference name
Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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2016-06-26 - 2016-06-30
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  • scopus:84992654731
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1996-756X
0277-786X
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9781510601956
DOI
10.1117/12.2232832
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English
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Publisher Copyright: © 2016 SPIE.
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  author       = {{De Jong, Roelof S. and Barden, Samuel C. and Bellido-Tirado, Olga and Brynnel, Joar G. and Frey, Steffen and Giannone, Domenico and Haynes, Roger and Johl, Diana and Phillips, Daniel and Schnurr, Olivier and Walcher, Jakob C. and Winkler, Roland and Ansorge, Wolfgang R. and Feltzing, Sofia and McMahon, Richard G. and Baker, Gabriella and Caillier, Patrick and Dwelly, Tom and Gaessler, Wolfgang and Iwert, Olaf and Mandel, Holger G. and Piskunov, Nikolai A. and Pragt, Johan H. and Walton, Nicholas A. and Bensby, Thomas and Bergemann, Maria and Chiappini, Cristina and Christlieb, Norbert and Cioni, Maria Rosa L. and Driver, Simon and Finoguenov, Alexis and Helmi, Amina and Irwin, Michael J. and Kitaura, Francisco Shu and Kneib, Jean Paul and Liske, Jochen and Merloni, Andrea and Minchev, Ivan and Richard, Johan and Starkenburg, Else}},
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  keywords     = {{EROSITA; Euclid; Facility simulator; Fibre-fed spectrographs; Gaia; PLATO; Science operations; Tilting-spine fibre postioner; VISTA telescope; Wide field corrector; Wide-field multi-object spectrograph facility}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{4MOST : The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope project at preliminary design review}},
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  doi          = {{10.1117/12.2232832}},
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