{"id":4388,"date":"2026-03-03T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4388"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:31:40","slug":"wst-new-frontiers-for-spectroscopic-surveys-vincenzo-mainieri-eso-germany","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/event\/wst-new-frontiers-for-spectroscopic-surveys-vincenzo-mainieri-eso-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"WST: new frontiers for Spectroscopic Surveys &#8211; Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO, Germany)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for a large telescope dedicated to spectroscopic surveys is an interest shared worldwide and figures explicitly in many national strategic science plans. The Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wstelescope.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.wstelescope.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1776245562582000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3luU1-IyaNz3fLRvK0Wc7L\">WST<\/a>) is a community lead initiative to fill this crucial gap in astronomical capability and will work in synergy with future ground and space-based facilities.\u00a0 WST is designed as a 12m aperture telescope with simultaneous operation of a large field-of-view (3 sq. degree), high-multiplex (30,000) multi-object spectrograph (MOS) and a giant 3&#215;3 arcmin integral field spectrograph (IFS). I will present the status of the project, including telescope and instrument design, operational concept, and sustainability impact.\u00a0 I will describe the very wide range of science topics that WST will tackle as developed by a Science Team including more than 800 scientists. WST will address outstanding scientific questions in the areas of cosmology; galaxy assembly, evolution, and enrichment, including our own Milky Way; the origin of stars and planets; and time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>YouTube Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sf-zoF_dnG8\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/sf-zoF_dnG8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for a large telescope dedicated to spectroscopic surveys is an interest shared worldwide and figures explicitly in many national strategic science plans. The Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a community lead initiative to fill this crucial gap in astronomical capability and will work in synergy with future ground and space-based facilities.\u00a0 WST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4388\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/astronomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}