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VISTA Public Surveys and VLT followup

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Science with the VLT in the ELT Era

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The 4-metre VISTA telescope and its 67 Mpixel wide-field near-infrared camera are now nearly complete at Paranal, awaiting delivery of the primary mirror in early 2008. I provide an overview of the six Public Surveys which have been selected by ESO to use most of the VISTA time for the first five years. There is good synergy between the VISTA surveys and the second-generation VLT instruments HAWK-I, X-shooter and KMOS; in the longer term, enhancement of VLT multi-object spectroscopic capability is highly desirable.

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  1. Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary Univ. London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Will Sutherland

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    Alan Moorwood

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Sutherland, W. (2009). VISTA Public Surveys and VLT followup. In: Moorwood, A. (eds) Science with the VLT in the ELT Era. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9190-2_29

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