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Marc Balcells Director, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) 2012 March 22 RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
ING operates three telescopes for UK, NL, ES
WHT
INT JKT
4.2m
2.5m
1.0m (not offered) Oldest, largest ORM user institution At ORM since 1982 ~40 staff, 25 years operating telescopes Leading scientific production Currently planning for next 10 years 2011-08-31 IoA Cambridge 2
Instrumentation http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/observing/instruments.html
WHT developed as versatile telescope with easy switching between focal stations 2012 March 22 RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 3
Program of Visiting Instruments
Successful program of easy deployment of private instruments SAURON PNS PlanetPol ExPo INTEGRAL ULTRACAM FastCam GHaFaS SPIFS • Future • PAUCam • AOLI Lucky Imager 2012 March 22
Test-bed for E-ELT technologies
• • • • CANARY system for multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO) for EAGLE (E-ELT) Durham, UKATC, Paris-LESIA, Marseille, ING Phase A (NGS) successful Now preparing Phase B, 4 LGS, open loop. 2012 March 22 RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 5
Training
ING resident student programme 4 PhD students spend 1 yr at ING Manage and support all INT observations Many PhD students learn to be astronomers at ING 2012-13 student selection open Deadline 2012 April 6 http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/science/studentship.html
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Collaboration with GTC
An ING-GTC alliance at ORM: the
T&Inet MoU
ING-GTC Telescope and Instrumentation Network
Signed 2011 Collaboration projects OSIRIS cryostat (2011 Jan – June) Alignment of GTC primary mirror segments(ongoing) Potential for growth 2012 March 22 RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 7
WHT usage, oversubscription
Spain: increasing demand Spain oversubscr: 2.5-3 Remains high after accession to ESO VLT oversubscr: 3.2
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High-impact scientific productivity
Forthcoming paper: Benn & Jiménez-Luján, Scientific
impact of large telescopes 1991-
2010, in prep. 2012 March 22 RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 9
Plans for next decade
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Thinking ING’s future ING Board
Simon Berry Ramón García López Paul Hewett Matt Jarvis
ING SAC
Paul Groot Amina Helmi Henk Hoekstra Mike Irwin (Chair)
ING Manag.
Don C. Abrams Marc Balcells Chris Benn Christoph Keller (Chair) Alfonso López Aguerri Ronald Stark Ross McLure Francisco Najarro Will Percival Ismael Pérez-Fournon Juan Martínez Ian Skillen
STFC-NWO-IAC-GTC working group
Pedro Alvarez Marc Balcells Ramón García-López James Hough Rafael Rebolo Ronald Stark Colin Vincent John Womersley
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4m in 10m era
Do what you do better than the 10m
Wide field astronomy
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Strategic planning 2013-2022
http://www.ing.iac.es/about-ING/strategy/ 2013-2016 1.
Maintain current model of general purpose telescope 2.
Build, commission WEAVE 2017-2022 WEAVE surveys Retain some access to other instruments?
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2013-2016
2012 March 22 General-purpose telescope model Introduce long-term programmes Upgrade survey instruments Maintain Students, technology programmes, visitor instruments Future visitor instruments PAUCam (2013); AOLI (2014) Build, commission WEAVE Talk Friday by Gavin Dalton, WEAVE PI RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 14
Long-term programmes
2012 March 22 Expect increase telescope productivity ONLY IF demmanded by the community Requires changes in TAC processes Common UK, NL, ES TAC for long programmes
Upgrade ‘survey’ instruments
AF2/WYFFOS 4k Red+CCD. Throughput/operational issues ISIS, LIRIS, … RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 15
Why continue 2013-2016
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Northern sky access 2.
Complementarity to GTC For Spain, WHT is still ‘the’ general purpose telescope Science All kinds! You need to tell us Multi-wavelength coverage of important missions Gaia; Herschel; LOFAR; UKIDSS; … RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade 16
2017-2022 Surveys in the WEAVE epoch
Scott Trager’s talk, this Friday 50%? 70%?
100%
? time to WEAVE surveys?
2011-09-20 Spain: scientific complementarity WHT – GTC Classical : WHT – imaging, GTC – Spectroscopy??
Alternative : Spectroscopy, WHT: V=17=20 // GTC: V=20-23 WHT/ WEAVE combined with GTC/ MEGARA Powerful opportunities for Spanish astronomy Santillana - 2a Reunión REG 17
Summary: we’d like your needs/plans for
2013-2016 Would you use WHT long-term programmes Would you tolerate long-term programmes Instrument upgrade requests Coordination with other facilities ING role in training astronomers. 2017-2022 Interest in retaining (some) current instruments Interest in retaining INT Cost impact!
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THANKS
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