We present an overview of the EAGLE science case, which spans spatially-resolved spectroscopy of targets from five key science areas - ranging from studies of heavily-obscured Galactic star clusters, right out to the first galaxies at the highest redshifts. Here we summarise the requirements adopted for study and also evaluate the availability of natural guide stars in example fields, which will impact on the adaptive optics performance and architecture.
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@article{arxiv.0807.2945,
title = {Science Requirements for EAGLE for the E-ELT},
author = {C. J. Evans and M. D. Lehnert and J. -G. Cuby and S. L. Morris and A. M. Swinbank and W. D. Taylor and D. M. Alexander and N. P. F. Lorente and Y. Clenet and T. Paumard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2945},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages, to be published in Proc SPIE 7014: Ground-based & Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II