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

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astro-ph.IM2026

Design evolution for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

Will Saunders, Corentin Cudennec, Roland Bacon +4

WST is proposed as the next large ESO project to follow ELT, combining Multi-Object Spectroscopy and Integral Field Spectroscopy. Each mode offers order-of-magnitude gains over cur…

astro-ph.IM2026

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

David Lee, Joel Vernet, Elizabeth George +46

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

Progress of the design of the 12-m optical, Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST)

P. Dierickx, G. Gausachs, C. Cudennec +16

The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a 12-m class, Alt-Az optical telescope providing two simultaneous foci, 2 degrees and 3 by 3 arc minutes respectively, for Multi-Obj…

astro-ph.IM2026

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

Roland Bacon, Olga Bellido, Philippe Dierickx +52

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

Sustainability as a design parameter in the early development of the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

L. Fréour, E. Burtin, R. Bacon +13

The proposed Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope, a next-generation telescope facility with a 12-meter primary mirror that may be operational in the 2040s, is integrating sustainabl…

astro-ph.IM2026

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: Telescope structure FE analyses

Simone D'Auria, Vincenzo Cianniello, Ciro Del Vecchio +6

The Altitude Structure of the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is designed to support and position both primary and secondary mirrors, made of structural steel. Due to its…

astro-ph.IM2026

Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope (WST): coating strategy to achieve high optical throughput

Benoit Sassolas, Matthieu Coulon, Christophe Michel +4

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a 12-m class facility designed for simultaneous wide-field multi-object and integral-field spectroscopy across 370-1600 nm, targetin…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

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…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 12 cited

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…