3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
WST instrument Exposure Time Calculator: full simulation of multi-mode spectrograph performance from source to detector
Matteo Ferro, Matteo Genoni, Henri M. J. Boffin +13
We present a comprehensive Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) developed for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) concept. The WST, currently in its conceptual phase, is designe…
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.IM2024
ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments
A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan +286
The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion E…