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Science with the VLT in the ELT Era

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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  1. Alan Moorwood

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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  • Presents up-to-date research results by first-rate researchers working on the Extremely Large Telescope and the Very Large Telescope projects
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSSP)

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Table of contents (91 papers)

  1. VLTI Science Highlights

    1. VLTI-AMBER Observations of η Carinae with High Spatial Resolution and Spectral Resolutions of λ/Δλ=1500 and 12 000*

      • G. Weigelt, S. Kraus, T. Driebe, K.-H. Hofmann, F. Millour, R. Petrov et al.
      Pages 107-111

    2. Resolving the Inner Active Accretion Disk Around the Herbig Be Star MWC 147 with VLTI/MIDI + AMBER Spectro-interferometry

      • S. Kraus, Th. Preibisch, K. Ohnaka
      Pages 113-118

    3. Multi-epoch VLTI/MIDI Observations of the Carbon-rich Mira Star V Oph

      • K. Ohnaka, T. Driebe, G. Weigelt, M. Wittkowski
      Pages 119-123

    4. A Mid-infrared Interferometric Study of the Circumstellar Environment of Dusty OH/IR Stars with VLTI/MIDI

      • T. Driebe, K. Ohnaka, K. Murakawa, K.-H. Hofmann, D. Schertl, G. Weigelt et al.
      Pages 125-126

    5. The Closest Dusty Cloud Ever Detected Around a R CrB Variable Star Using the VLTI/MIDI Instrument

      • I. C. Leão, P. de Laverny, O. Chesneau, D. Mékarnia, J. R. De Medeiros
      Pages 127-129

  2. Future VLT and VLTI Science Priorities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. A Twenty Year Science Vision for European Astronomy

      • Guy Monnet, Tim de Zeeuw
      Pages 133-139

    3. Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations

      • Gavin Dalton
      Pages 141-145

    4. Galaxy Formation and Evolution

      • J. Bergeron
      Pages 147-153

    5. Exoplanets: The Road to Earth Twins

      • S. Udry, F. Pepe, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, the HARPS, ESPRESSO/CODEX Teams
      Pages 155-162

    6. Next Generation Deep Redshift Surveys with the VLT

      • Olivier Le Fèvre
      Pages 163-168

    7. GUAIX: The UCM Group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation

      • J. Gallego, N. Cardiel, S. Pascual, M. C. Eliche-Moral, A. Castillo-Morales, R. Guzmán et al.
      Pages 169-170

    8. VISTA Public Surveys and VLT followup

      • Will Sutherland
      Pages 171-175

    9. Probing Dark Energy with Cosmological Redshift Surveys at the VLT

      • L. Guzzo, the VVDS Consortium
      Pages 177-181

    10. The First Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters

      • Eelco van Kampen
      Pages 183-185

    11. Narrow Band Surveys and the Epoch of Reionization

      • B. P. Venemans, R. G. McMahon, I. R. Parry, D. J. King, J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. J. Horton
      Pages 187-191

    12. Stellar Archaeology and Galaxy Genesis: The Need for Large Area Multi-Object Spectrograph on 8 m-Class Telescopes

      • Mike J. Irwin, Geraint F. Lewis
      Pages 193-197

    13. Near-field Cosmology with the VLT

      • Steffen Mieske, Helmut Jerjen
      Pages 199-203

    14. Chemical Evolution of Local Group Galaxies

      • Gražina Tautvaišienė, Doug Geisler, George Wallerstein
      Pages 205-209

    15. The VLTI as a Tool to Study Eclipsing Binaries for an Improved Distance Scale

      • K. Shabun, A. Richichi, U. Munari, A. Siviero, B. Paczynski
      Pages 211-213
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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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  • European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    Alan Moorwood

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