WST - the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: surveying the Universe in the 2040’s and beyond

Session

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

10 Mar 2025, 14:45

Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci" (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

128. WST: context and Italian participation

Dr Maria Sofia Randich (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10/03/2025, 14:45

129. WST: Status and plans

Roland Bacon

10/03/2025, 15:05

123. The WST science drivers: transformational science in the 2040s

Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO)

10/03/2025, 15:25

The ambitious concept of WST has its root and motivation in science. WST will be able to address outstanding scientific questions in the areas of cosmology; galaxy assembly, evolution, and enrichment, including our own Milky Way; origin of stars and planets; time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics.
I will present an overview of the scientific drivers already identified by the science...

118. Expanding Horizons: Transforming Astronomy in the 2040s

Mariya Lyubenova

10/03/2025, 15:45

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is dedicated to consistently transforming the scientific landscape by designing, building and operating ground-based observatories that push technology to new heights and expand our knowledge of the cosmos. ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) follows in the footsteps of the 10-year-old collaborative efforts of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...