3 papers
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.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…