Science with the VLT in the ELT Era (eBook)

Alan F.M. Moorwood (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2009
XXV, 512 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-1-4020-9190-2 (ISBN)

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The Workshop 'Science with the VLT in the ELT Era' held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO, with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee, to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term future of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its interferometric mode (VLTI). In particular it was considered useful for future planning to evaluate how its science use may evolve over the next decade due to competition and/or synergy with new facilities such as ALMA, JWST and, hopefully, at least one next generation 30-40 m extremely large telescope whose acronym appears in the title to symbolise this wider context. These discussions were also held in the fresh light of the Science Vision recently developed within ASTRONET as the rst step towards a 20 year plan for implementing astronomical facilities-the rst such attempt within Europe. Speci c ideas and proposals for new, second generation VLT/I instruments were also solicited following a tradition set by several earlier Workshops held since the start of the VLT development. The programme consisted of invited talks and reviews and contributed talks and posters. Almost all those given are included here although, unfortunately not the several lively but constructive discussion sessions.

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The Workshop "e;Science with the VLT in the ELT Era"e; held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO, with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee, to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term future of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its interferometric mode (VLTI). In particular it was considered useful for future planning to evaluate how its science use may evolve over the next decade due to competition and/or synergy with new facilities such as ALMA, JWST and, hopefully, at least one next generation 30-40 m extremely large telescope whose acronym appears in the title to symbolise this wider context. These discussions were also held in the fresh light of the Science Vision recently developed within ASTRONET as the rst step towards a 20 year plan for implementing astronomical facilities-the rst such attempt within Europe. Speci c ideas and proposals for new, second generation VLT/I instruments were also solicited following a tradition set by several earlier Workshops held since the start of the VLT development. The programme consisted of invited talks and reviews and contributed talks and posters. Almost all those given are included here although, unfortunately not the several lively but constructive discussion sessions.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Contents 8
Participants List 18
VLT Science Highlights 27
VLT Science Highlights 28
Pushing the VLT Spectroscopy of Distant Galaxies to the Limits and Future Prospects 40
Pushing FORS to the Limit—A New Population of Faint Extended Lya Emitters at z ~3 47
VIMOS Integral Field Spectroscopy of Gaseous Nebulae in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies 51
Near IR Integral Field Spectroscopy of a Nearby Starburst 53
The ESO Large Programme “First Stars” 55
The Contribution of UVES@VLT to the New Era of QSO Absorption Line Studies 60
IMAGES: A Unique View of the Galaxy Mass Assembly Since z=1 66
The Metallicity Evolution at High Redshift 71
Near-IR Spectroscopy of Blue Supergiants 76
Integral Field Spectroscopy of Protoplanetary Disks in Orion with VLT FLAMES 82
MAD@VLT: Deep into the Madding Crowd of Omega Centauri 87
Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy and Supernova Yields after UVES 92
VLTI Science Highlights 97
VLTI Science Highlights 98
MIDI Sees Active Galactic Nuclei 105
The Use of the VLTI for Studying the Asymmetric Mass Loss of Evolved Stars 110
Mid-infrared Interferometric Observations of Young Circumstellar Discs 115
VLTI-AMBER Observations of . Carinae with High Spatial Resolution and Spectral Resolutions of ./. = 1500 and 12 000 120
Resolving the Inner Active Accretion Disk Around the Herbig Be Star MWC 147 with VLTI/MIDI + AMBER Spectro-interferometry 125
Multi-epoch VLTI/MIDI Observations of the Carbon-rich Mira Star V Oph 131
A Mid-infrared Interferometric Study of the Circumstellar Environment of Dusty OH/IR Stars with VLTI/MIDI 136
The Closest Dusty Cloud Ever Detected Around a R CrB Variable Star Using the VLTI/MIDI Instrument 138
Future VLT and VLTI Science Priorities 141
A Twenty Year Science Vision for European Astronomy 142
Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations 149
Galaxy Formation and Evolution 154
Exoplanets: The Road to Earth Twins 161
Next Generation Deep Redshift Surveys with the VLT 169
GUAIX: The UCM Group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation 175
VISTA Public Surveys and VLT followup 177
Probing Dark Energy with Cosmological Redshift Surveys at the VLT 182
The First Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters 187
Narrow Band Surveys and the Epoch of Reionization 190
Stellar Archaeology and Galaxy Genesis: The Need for Large Area Multi-Object Spectrograph on 8 m-Class Telescopes 195
Near-field Cosmology with the VLT 200
Chemical Evolution of Local Group Galaxies 205
The VLTI as a Tool to Study Eclipsing Binaries for an Improved Distance Scale 210
VLT and VLTI Synergy with ELTs 213
Status of the European ELT 214
The Science Case for the European ELT 221
GRB Afterglows in the ELT Era 229
On theWay to an E-ELT Instrumentation Plan 231
From ESPRESSO to CODEX 239
First Results of AQuEye, a Precursor ‘Quantum’ Instrument for the E-ELT 244
The E-ELT: A Chance to Measure Cosmic Magnetic Fields 249
The Experience from VISIR and the Design of an ELT Mid-infrared Instrument 254
HARMONI: A Narrow Field Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph for the E-ELT 259
Which Synergies Between LBT/LINC Nirvana and Future ELTs? 264
TMT Science and Instruments 269
VLT Synergies with ALMA and JWST 276
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array 277
Observational Cosmology with the ELT and JWST 283
Integral Field Spectroscopy of (U)LIRGs. From VLT to JWST 288
Second Generation VLT and VLTI Instrument Programme 293
VLT and VLTI Second Generation Instrument Overview and Resources 294
HAWK-I and Infrared Imaging on the VLT 299
X-Shooter: A Medium-resolution, Wide-Band Spectrograph for the VLT 303
KMOS and KMOS++ 309
New Science Opportunities Offered by MUSE 314
SPHERE: A ‘Planet Finder’ Instrument for the VLT 320
Milli-arcsecond Astrophysics with VSI, the VLTI Spectro-imager in the ELT Era 325
Prospects for Near-infrared Characterisation of Hot Jupiters with the VLTI Spectro-imager (VSI) 331
MATISSE 334
MATISSE Science Cases 339
GRAVITY: Microarcsecond Astrometry and Deep Interferometric Imaging with the VLT 341
New Instrument Concepts and VLT/I Operating Modes 346
Smart Focal Plane Technologies for VLT Instruments 347
Applications of Digital Micromirror Devices to Astronomical Instrumentation 352
FORS in the Era of Second Generation VLT Instrumentation 354
Wide Field Options on the VLT 356
A Few Degrees Very Wide Field of View Camera for VLT as a Finder for ELT 362
Science with a 16 m VLT: The Case for Variability of Fundamental Constants 366
ESPRESSO: A High Resolution Spectrograph for the Combined Coudé Focus of the VLT 371
Feeding Optics for the ESPRESSO Spectrograph 376
New Design Approach for a Very-High Resolution Spectrograph for the VLT Combined Focus 378
ESPRESSO Optomechanics 380
ESPRESSO Science Software 383
High Resolution Wavelength Calibration: Advancements with the Laser Frequency Comb Development 385
Precision Radial Velocities in the Infrared 388
Very Large Spectroscopic Surveys with the VLT 390
New Developments in Integral Field Spectroscopy 395
ULTRAPHOT 400
Super-GIRAFFE: The Next Generation High Multiplex Optical Spectrograph with d-IFUs 402
FLEX (The First Light Explorer)—The Science Case for a Fully OH Suppressed IFU Spectrograph 407
An N-Band Integral Field Spectrometer Survey Instrument for the VLT 412
High Resolution Visible Imaging on the VLT 417
Life on the Fast Lane: The Burst Mode at the VLT at Present and in the Future 422
High Resolution Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Prospects for 10 and 40 m Class Telescopes 427
Prospects and Needs of Micro-arcsecond Astrometry 435
CASIS: Cassegrain Adaptive-Optics Simultaneous Imaging System for the VLT 440
The Need for a General Purpose Diffraction Limited Imager at the VLT 445
Exploring the Time Axis—High Resolution Timing Observations with Present and Future Instrumentation 450
Advanced Calibration for Quantitative Astrophysics: 2nd Generation VLT Instruments and Beyond 455
Quantitative Near-IR Spectroscopy of OB Stars 461
The Very Large Telescope Interferometer in the ELT Era 463
VLTI and Beyond: The Next Steps in AGN Research with Interferometers 469

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
• Zusatzinfo: XXV, 512 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: ALMA • Astronomical Instrumentation • Extremely Large telescope • instruments • Interferometry • JWST • Telescopes • VLT
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-9190-7 / 1402091907
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-9190-2 / 9781402091902