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most cited4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

311 citations · 330 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

On-sky Fibre-Target-Alignment of the 4MOST instrument: calibration and performance

Roland Winkler, Weijia Sun, Daniel Sablowski +9

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) is a new wide-field, fibre-fed spectroscopic survey facility for the VISTA telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory. The instr…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

CUBES, the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph: towards final design review

Matteo Genoni, Hans Dekker, Stefano Covino +39

In the era of Extremely Large Telescopes, the current generation of 8-10m facilities are likely to remain competitive at ground-UV wavelengths for the foreseeable future. The Casse…

astro-ph.IM2024

ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT: RIZ Spectrograph preliminary design

Bruno Chazelas, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Audrey Lanotte +44

We present here the preliminary design of the RIZ module, one of the visible spectrographs of the ANDES instrument 1. It is a fiber-fed high-resolution, high-stability spectrograph…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CUBES: a UV spectrograph for the future

S. Covino, S. Cristiani, J. M. Alcala' +86

In spite of the advent of extremely large telescopes in the UV/optical/NIR range, the current generation of 8-10m facilities is likely to remain competitive at ground-UV wavelength…

astro-ph.IM2022

CUBES and its software ecosystem: instrument simulation, control, and data processing

Giorgio Calderone, Roberto Cirami, Guido Cupani +11

CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is the recently approved high-efficiency VLT spectrograph aimed to observe the sky in the UV ground-based region (305-400 nm) with…

astro-ph.IM2022

CUBES, the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph

S. Cristiani, J. M. Alcalá, S. H. P. Alencar +74

In the era of Extremely Large Telescopes, the current generation of 8-10m facilities are likely to remain competitive at ground-UV wavelengths for the foreseeable future. The Casse…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 7 cited

CUBES Phase A design overview -- The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope

Alessio Zanutta, Stefano Cristiani, David Atkinson +51

We present the baseline conceptual design of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) for the Very Large Telescope. CUBES will provide unprecedented sensitivity for spe…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 7 cited

4MOST Scientific Operations

C. J. Walcher, M. Banerji, C. Battistini +65

The 4MOST instrument is a multi-object spectrograph that will address Galactic and extragalactic science cases simultaneously by observing targets from a large number of different…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 311 cited

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

R. S. de Jong, O. Agertz, A. Agudo Berbel +335

We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Vis…