Valuable insights into galaxy evolution can be gleaned from studies of resolved stellar populations in the local Universe. Deep photometric surveys have provided tracers of the star-formation histories in galaxies from 0.8-16 Mpc, but without robust chemical abundances and stellar kinematics from spectroscopy, their sub-structures and assembly histories remain hidden from us. In this context, we introduce the EAGLE design study for a multi--integral-field-unit, near-infrared spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). EAGLE will exploit the unprecedented light-gathering power of the E-ELT to deliver AO-corrected spectroscopy across a large (38.5 sq. arcmin) field, truly revolutionising our view of stellar populations in the Local Volume.
@article{arxiv.0909.1748,
title = {EAGLE Spectroscopy of Resolved Stellar Populations Beyond the Local Group},
author = {Chris Evans and Yanbin Yang and Mathieu Puech and Matthew Lehnert and Michael Barker and Annette Ferguson and Jean-Gabriel Cuby and Simon Morris and Gerard Rousset and Francois Assemat and Hector Flores},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1748},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the AO4ELT conference, held in Paris, 22-26 June 2009