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Marc Balcells, ING
WELCOME TO THE WHT WORKSHOP
 Goals:
 To empower ING User Communities for
defining ING’s future
 To obtain guidance from users in the current
transition in 2012, end of International
Agreements for Astronomy in the Canary Islands
 To shape future of our organisation after recent
UK, EU reviews
Previous planning exercises, UK, EU
 2007 UK Programatic Review
 2009 UK Ground Based Facilities Review Panel
 GBFR, MRR report
 2009 STFC Near-Universe, Far-Universe panels
 NUAP, FUAP
 2010 European Telescope Strategy Review
Committee
 ETSRC, Janet Drew report
ING in STFC Dec 2009 prioritisation
 ING covered til 2012 as per the Canary Islands
International Agreements
 After 2012 future is open –
➥Ensuring need for WHT in coming decade
➥Finding a satisfactory operation agreement
Working for ING’s future…
 ING senior astronomers
Don C. Abrams
Ian Skillen
Chris Benn
 ING Science Advisory Committee
Paul Groot
Henk Hoekstra
Matt Jarvis
Francisco Najarro
Don Pollacco (Chair)
 ING Board
Simon Berry
Gavin Dalton
Jim Hough (Chair)
Matt Jarvis
Christoph Keller
Ramón García López
Ronald Stark
ING strategy notes:
http://www.ing.iac.es/About-ING/Strategy/decadal_strategy_2010_2020.html
But the final word belongs to
YOU
 ING to continue only if users say/show they
need ING
 Direct input from users on instrument
priorities, modes of operation
Instrumentation
 What current instruments are most useful for your
science
 Is new instrumentation needed
 Priority shift from AO to WF
 WF astronomy
 Spectroscopy? Imaging?
 Optical vs NIR
 High vs mid spectral resolution
Wide Field Astronomy @ ETSRC
ETSRC Report, Executive Summary:
A key feature [ … ] is the construction of a massive-multiplex wide field
spectrograph for a 4-m telescope […]
In the north, the WHT appears to be the best choice on account of it having the
largest available primary mirror.
ETSRC Report, Sect. 3.4:
Another attractive possibility is a new WF NIR imager using the full field
of view at the prime focus of WHT or CAHA 3.5m telescopes. [ … ]
enable observations beyond the +60o declination limit of UKIRT [ … ] a
large part of the Perseus Arm [ … ] M81 and M82. [ … ] supplement
UKIRT, CFHT and VISTA, [ … ] all sky coverage, [ … ] 4-5 magnitudes
fainter than 2MASS.
Our Science priorities of WF spectroscopy
 A sought outcome from this meeting:
 Gauge science interest for WF spectroscopy at
WHT
 Classical science cases for WF MOS:
1.
Cosmology redshift surveys – BAO etc
2. GAIA follow-up
 Radial velocities
 Chemical tagging
3.
Galaxy evolution
 Each different instrumental requirements
If WF MOS a priority
 ING will
 Create science team for science case
 Create instrument team to develop instrument
proposal
 Goal is proposal submitted Dec 2010
 Instrument could be ready 2016
 Tuesday session: start core science team
WF capabilities at WHT PF
Optical design, Tibor Agòcs
 Presentation, Day-2
session
FOV up to 2 deg diameter
Important mechanical changes at
top end
Classical observing vs survey work
 Current, WHT largely classical observing
 Should we increase the fraction of time
devoted to surveys
 By how much: 20%? 50%? 70%?
Visitor instrument program
 Program successful to date
 ExPo, FastCam, GHaFaS, PlanetPol, PNS,
SAURON, Ultracam
 Does the community want this to continue
More in ETSRC report
 Rationalisation of instruments
 Reducing night support at telescope
 Mechanisms for training students, aka INT
 INT; IDS @ INT
 EU-wide open telescope access
 Common TAC
 Are we willing to give up our national TACs
The upcoming HARPS-NEF instrument
 Stabilised echelle spectrograph R>100,000
 Private instrument (Harvard-Geneva)
 Kepler field survey follow-up
 2011 – 2014
 Open access through national TACs
 Plan on using HARPS yourself
Workshop format
•Day 1:
 Day 2:
•Talks
 Analyse science focus
of any prevailing new
instrument proposed in
day 1
•Discussions
•Lunch break
 12:30 – 13:25
 Posters
•Final Discussion period
•Vacate room 16:55 sharp
 (Lecture Theatre, RAS)
 Who is planning to
come tomorrow:
LOC Announcements
 Speakers bring your
talk on pen-drive
 PC, Mac, project ppt,
pptx, pdf
 We are videorecording
talks and discussions
 Questions: please write
them down, hand to
LOC member
 WIFI available in room
 Netwrk: Geological-Basement
 Psswd: sediment
LOC:
Chris Benn (Chair)
Dan Hurley
James McCormac
Fiona Riddick
Samantha Rix
Pablo Rodríguez-Gil
So… enjoy the run!