Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation
Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 11-15 June 2001
Publisher: Springer London, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9783662432150
Description: This is the start of a long process to ultimately operate new advanced capabilities at Paranal that can keep up with the ever-growing need for larger and more complex astrophysical data sets. A modern instrument represents a very significant investment in cash, human resources and time. Such a meeting gives us a precious yardstick to evaluate the competitiveness of first-generation instruments and associated current and forthcoming proposals for first-generation upgrades. This is also crucial to orient the large research and development effort that will provide the very foundation on which second-generation VLT instrumentation can be built. Finally, it represents a significant step towards defining the hopes and goals for the future Extremely Large Telescope to come. The first outcome of this meeting, already in progress, is outlined in the epilogue.