Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 11–15 June 2001
Description
This is the start of a long process to ultimately operate new advanced capabilities at Paranal that can keep up with the evergrowing need for larger and more complex astrophysical data sets. A modern instrument represents a very significant investment in cash, human resources and time. Such a meeting gives us a precious yardstick to evaluate the competitiveness of 1st-generation instruments and associated current and forthcoming proposals for 1st-generation upgrades. This is also crucial to orient the large research and development effort that will provide the very foundation on which 2nd-generation VLT instrumentation can be built. Finally, it represents a significant step towards defining the hopes and goals for the future Extremely Large Telescope to come. The first outcome of this meeting, already in progress, is outlined in the epilogue.
Keywords
ScienceAstronomyPhysicsAstrophysicsTechnology & EngineeringAeronautics & Astronautics
2002Book
Author(s)J. Bergeron
PublisherSpringer Science & Business Media
ISBN9783540437550
LanguageEnglish
