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

Roelof S. de Jong; Samuel C. Barden; Olga Bellido-Tirado; Joar G. Brynnel; Steffen Frey; Domenico Giannone; Roger Haynes; Diana Johl; Daniel Phillips; Olivier Schnurr; Jakob C. Walcher; Roland Winkler; Wolfgang R. Ansorge; Sofia Feltzing; Richard G. McMahon; Gabriella Baker; Patrick Caillier; Tom Dwelly; Wolfgang Gaessler; Olaf Iwert; Holger G. Mandel; Nikolai A. Piskunov; Johan H. Pragt; Nicholas A. Walton; Thomas Bensby; Maria Bergemann; Cristina Chiappini; Norbert Christlieb; Maria-Rosa L. Cioni; Simon Driver; Alexis Finoguenov; Amina Helmi; Michael J. Irwin; Francisco-Shu Kitaura; Jean-Paul Kneib; Jochen Liske; Andrea Merloni; Ivan Minchev; Johan Richard; Else Starkenburg

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

Roelof S. de Jong, Samuel C. Barden, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Joar G. Brynnel, Steffen Frey, Domenico Giannone, Roger Haynes, Diana Johl, Daniel Phillips, Olivier Schnurr, Jakob C. Walcher, Roland Winkler, Wolfgang R. Ansorge, Sofia Feltzing, Richard G. McMahon, Gabriella Baker, Patrick Caillier, Tom Dwelly, Wolfgang Gaessler, Olaf IwertHolger G. Mandel, Nikolai A. Piskunov, Johan H. Pragt, Nicholas A. Walton, Thomas Bensby, Maria Bergemann, Cristina Chiappini, Norbert Christlieb, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Simon Driver, Alexis Finoguenov, Amina Helmi, Michael J. Irwin, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Jean-Paul Kneib, Jochen Liske, Andrea Merloni, Ivan Minchev, Johan Richard, Else Starkenburg

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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 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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Title of host publication	Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99081O (August 9, 2016)
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	9908
ISBN (Print)	9781510601956
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232832
Publication status	Published - 2016

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de Jong, R. S., Barden, S. C., Bellido-Tirado, O., Brynnel, J. G., Frey, S., Giannone, D., Haynes, R., Johl, D., Phillips, D., Schnurr, O., Walcher, J. C., Winkler, R., Ansorge, W. R., Feltzing, S., McMahon, R. G., Baker, G., Caillier, P., Dwelly, T., Gaessler, W., ... Starkenburg, E. (2016). 4MOST: the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope project at preliminary design review. In Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99081O (August 9, 2016) (Vol. 9908). Article 99081O SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232832

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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 et al.
Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99081O (August 9, 2016). Vol. 9908 SPIE, 2016. 99081O.

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