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most citedThe Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper

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An infrared census of R Coronae Borealis Stars II -- Spectroscopic classifications and implications for the rate of low-mass white dwarf mergers

Viraj R. Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Patrick Tisserand +18

We present results from a systematic infrared (IR) census of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Milky Way, using data from the Palomar Gattini IR (PGIR) survey. R Coronae Boreal…

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WST -- Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: Motivation, science drivers and top-level requirements for a new dedicated facility

Roland Bacon, Vincenzo Maineiri, Sofia Randich +37

In this paper, we describe the wide-field spectroscopic survey telescope (WST) project. WST is a 12-metre wide-field spectroscopic survey telescope with simultaneous operation of a…

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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…

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The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper

Vincenzo Mainieri, Richard I. Anderson, Jarle Brinchmann +214

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial con…

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Update on the German and Australasian Optical Ground Station Networks

Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Joseph Ashby, Francis Bennet +22

Networks of ground stations designed to transmit and receive at optical wavelengths through the atmosphere offer an opportunity to provide on-demand, high-bandwidth, secure communi…

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An Automated Catalog of Long Period Variables using Infrared Lightcurves from Palomar Gattini-IR

Aswin Suresh, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal +8

Stars in the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, dominated by low to intermediate-mass stars in the late stage of evolution, undergo periodic pulsations, with periods of several h…