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astro-ph.IM2026

WST -- Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: The Next Leap in Wide-field Spectroscopy

Roland Bacon, Olga Bellido, Philippe Dierickx +53

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a dedicated 12-m spectroscopic survey facility designed to address some of the most important questions in astrophysic…

astro-ph.IM2026

An overview of stray light findings and interpretation during on-sky commissioning of LSSTCam

Gabriele Rodeghiero, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Alessio Taranto +78

Wide-field telescopes are intrinsically difficult to shield from unwanted stray and scattered light, while the search to identify sources of contaminating light is frequently a cha…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: optical designs for the low-resolution multi-object spectrographs

Will Saunders, Kjetil Dohlen, Dimitri Buffat +7

In MOS Low-Resolution mode, WST has a 'spectral etendue' per fiber (etendue x spectral resolution elements) twice as large as any existing MOS instrument, and a total spectral eten…

astro-ph.IM2026

WST, the wide-field spectroscopic telescope: progress on the design of the instruments

David Lee, Joel Vernet, Elizabeth George +47

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope is a proposed new facility that will provide a transformational gain in spectroscopic survey capability over existing facilities. The WS…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1

Vera C Rubin Observatory Team, Tatiana Acero Cuellar, Emily Acosta +325

We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detecti…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST): design trade-offs for the low-resolution multi-object spectrograph instrument

Dimitri Buffat, Will Saunders, Kjetil Dohlen +10

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a planned 12-meter-class dedicated spectroscopic facility designed to address key scientific challenges through large spectroscopic…