Revisiting the science case for near-UV spectroscopy with the VLT

Authors
  • C.J. Evans
  • B. Barbuy
  • B. Castilho
  • R. Smiljanic
  • J. Melendez
  • J. Japelj
  • S. Cristiani
  • C. Snodgrass
  • P. Bonifacio
  • M. Puech
  • A. Quirrenbach
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • C.J. Evans
  • L. Simard
  • H. Takami
Book title Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Book subtitle 10-14 June 2018, Austin, Texas, United States
ISBN
  • 9781510619579
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781510619586
Series Proceedings of the SPIE
Event Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Article number 107022E
Volume | Issue number 2
Number of pages 10
Publisher Bellingham, WA: SPIE
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
In the era of Extremely Large Telescopes, the current generation of 8-10m facilities are likely to remain competitive at far-blue visible wavelengths for the foreseeable future. High-efficiency (<20%) observations of the ground UV (300- 400 nm) at medium resolving power (R~20,000) are required to address a number of exciting topics in stellar astrophysics, while also providing new insights in extragalactic science. Anticipating strong demand to better exploit this diagnostic-rich wavelength region, we revisit the science case and instrument requirements previously assembled for the CUBES concept for the Very Large Telescope.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312022
Other links http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SPIE10702E..2EE
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