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The SIRMOS mission concept: a space-based near-IR spectroscopic survey of 100 million galaxies in the Euclid Wide Survey footprint
Gregory D. Wirth, Yun Wang, Massimo Robberto +46
SIRMOS is a mission concept for a future NASA Astrophysics Explorer opportunity that aims to revolutionize our understanding of the universe by mapping the large-scale structure of…
Community Lessons from builders of infrared multi-object spectrographs
Solange V. Ramirez, Maren Cosens, Nicholas P. Konidaris +21
We present a summary of lessons learned from our community on the design and construction of infrared multi-object spectrographs. As members of the Magellan Infrared Multi-Object S…
Mid-IR Water-Vapor Seeing: Implications for ELT/METIS High-Contrast Imaging from VLTI Data
Abhirami S Raghu, Prashant Pathak, Olivier Absil +7
Direct imaging and characterization of rocky exoplanets remains one of the central challenges in exoplanetary science. The mid-infrared (mid-IR) offers a favorable high-contrast im…
Pushing high angular resolution and high contrast observations on the VLTI from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite: integration status and plans
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Michael J. Ireland, Denis Defrère +39
ESO's VLTI has a history of record-breaking discoveries in astrophysics using high-angular resolution instrumentation. Its latest visitor instrument, the Asgard instrumental suite,…
Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…
GRAVITY+: reducing non-common-path aberrations for sub-10 μas astrometric accuracy
Quentin Fournier, Guillaume Bourdarot, Frank Eisenhauer +26
GRAVITY is a state-of-the-art instrument for near-infrared astrometric interferometry that routinely achieves astrometric accuracy of 30-100 microarcsecond in its phase-referenced…
The Tartu Observatory Fiber-fed Echelle Spectrograph (TOFES) Data Reduction Pipeline
Sandipan P. D. Borthakur, Tõnis Eenmäe, Nikolai Piskunov +9
We introduce the data reduction pipeline for the Tartu Observatory Fiber-fed Echelle Spectrograph (TOFES). TOFES is installed in the Coudé room and will be connected to the 1.5 m T…
LISA 10 -- Library and Information Services in Astronomy. Report on the ESO workshop
Leslie Kiefer, Uta Grothkopf, Silvia Meakins +1
The 10th LISA conference (LISA 10) took place at ESO Chile in early November 2025. The theme, Research Equity and Access in the Age of AI, highlighted the rapidly evolving landscap…
VLT Beyond 2030 and Call for White Papers
Céline Péroux, Antoine Mérand, Martyna Chruślińska
The VLT Beyond 2030 conference gathered participants from the community and ESO experts to present and discuss science and technological ideas for the future of both the Very Large…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AstroVink: A vision transformer approach to find strong gravitational lens systems
Euclid Collaboration, S. H. Vincken, K. Rojas +302
We present AstroVink, a vision transformer classifier designed for automated identification of strong lens candidates in Euclid imaging. We build upon the DINOv2 encoder, fine tune…
SAGUI: SED-based Segmentation of Multi-band Galaxy Images -- Application to JADES in GOODS-South
Rafael S. de Souza, Andressa Wille, Shravya Shenoy +11
We present sagui, a modular framework for the analysis of multi-band imaging data in spatially resolved galaxies, with synergies to integral-field spectroscopy (IFS). Building on t…
Focal plane wavefront control with model-based reinforcement learning
Jalo Nousiainen, Iremsu Taskin, Markus Kasper +2
The direct imaging of potentially habitable exoplanets is one prime science case for high-contrast imaging instruments on extremely large telescopes. Most such exoplanets orbit clo…
An Analysis of Large Astronomical Detector Controller Systems and Implications for Future ESO Detector Systems
Mathias Richerzhagen, Naidu Bezawada, Sebastian Elias Egner +11
Large astronomical instruments using tens to hundreds of optical or infrared science detectors pose specific challenges for detector control, where, in addition to performance, oth…
A 5kHz modulator for pyramid wavefront sensors
Maximilian Häberle, Vianak Naranjo, Yared Reinarz +5
Despite the emergence of new types of wavefront sensors, the modulated pyramid wavefront sensor remains the workhorse for ELT instrumentation, and is among the options even for adv…
Euclid. Properties and performance of the NISP signal estimator
Euclid Collaboration, F. Cogato, B. Kubik +292
The Euclid spacecraft, located at the second Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system, hosts the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument. NISP is equipped with…
Habitability of exoplanets orbiting flaring stars
Rebecca Szabó, Valentin D. Ivanov, M. Švanda
As of late 2025 there are about 70 exoplanets that meet the formal criterion of having equilibrium temperatures allowing the presence of liquid water and about 50 of them orbit M-s…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Resolved Stellar Populations Studies in M31 and its Satellites
C. Gallart, E. Fernández-Alvar, A. B. A. Queiroz +48
A 30 m class optical/near-IR telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, equipped for diffraction-limited imaging and high-resolution, multi-object spectroscopy of faint stars, would ena…
The Emergence of Prebiotic Chemistry in the ISM
Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Giuliana Cosentino, Francisco Montenegro-Montes +22
Contrary to popular belief, the interstellar medium (ISM) is not empty; it is filled with atoms, dust particles, and molecules. Some of these molecules may have been the very build…
The LMT 2 Millimeter Receiver System (B4R). I. Overview and Results of Science Demonstration
Ryohei Kawabe, Takeshi Sakai, Kunihiko Tanaka +30
We report on the results of the on-sky test and science demonstration conducted with the 2 mm receiver system, B4R, on the 50 m Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), located at an alti…
Morphological Image Similarity Search on the ALMA Science Archive Query Interface Using Deep Unsupervised Contrastive Representation Learning
Felix Stoehr, Andrea Farago, Stefan Curiban +5
With the exponential growth of astronomical data over time, finding the needles in the haystack is becoming increasingly difficult. The next frontier for science archives is to ena…
Coherent Differential Imaging of high-contrast extended sources with VLT/SPHERE
Axel Potier, Raphaël Galicher, Pierre Baudoz +6
High-contrast imaging relies on advanced coronagraphs and adaptive optics (AO) to attenuate the starlight. However, residual aberrations, especially non-common path aberrations bet…
The evolution of PUCHEROS from a basic to a competitive tool for stellar astrophysics
Luca Antonucci, Leonardo Vanzi, Abner Zapata +16
We present PUCHEROS +, a new spectrograph developed as an enhanced version of PUCHEROS (Pontificia Universidad Catolica High Echelle Resolution Optical Spectrograph), which was the…
PLATOSpec: a precise spectrograph in support of space missions
P. Kabáth, M. Skarka, A. Hatzes +42
The upcoming space missions that will characterize exoplanets, such as PLATO and Ariel, will collect huge amounts of data that will need to be complemented with ground-based observ…
First Light for the GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics: Extreme Adaptive Optics for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer
GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, F. Allouche +137
GRAVITY+ improves by orders of magnitude the sensitivity, sky-coverage and contrast of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). A central part of this project is the develop…