3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Guiding Design Choices for Wide-Field IFS: Trade-Offs Between Replication and Complexity for WST
C. Cudennec, A. Jeanneau, R. Bacon +7
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a proposed 12-meter segmented facility optimized for seeing- and Ground Layer Adaptive Optics-limited observations in the visible an…
astro-ph.IM2026
IFS spectrograph designs for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: Architecture and performance gains from curved sensors
Corentin Cudennec, Alexandre Jeanneau, Roland Bacon +2
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a proposed 12-meter segmented facility optimized for seeing limited observations in the visible and designed to operate both a high-…
astro-ph.IM2024
WST -- Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: design of a new 12m class telescope dedicated to widefield Multi-object and Integral Field Spectroscopy
P. Dierickx, T. Travouillon, G. Gausachs +12
The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a 12-m class seeing-limited telescope providing two concentric fields of view for simultaneous Multi-Object Spectrosco…