The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper
Abstract
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial concept as well as the corresponding science cases. WST will feature simultaneous operation of a large field-of-view (3 sq. degree), a high multiplex (20,000) multi-object spectrograph (MOS) and a giant 3x3 sq. arcmin integral field spectrograph (IFS). In scientific capability these requirements place WST far ahead of existing and planned facilities. Given the current investment in deep imaging surveys and noting the diagnostic power of spectroscopy, WST will fill a crucial gap in astronomical capability and work synergistically with future ground and space-based facilities. This white paper shows that WST can address outstanding scientific questions in the areas of cosmology; galaxy assembly, evolution, and enrichment, including our own Milky Way; origin of stars and planets; time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics. WST's uniquely rich dataset will deliver unforeseen discoveries in many of these areas. The WST Science Team (already including more than 500 scientists worldwide) is open to the all astronomical community. To register in the WST Science Team please visit https://www.wstelescope.com/for-scientists/participate
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@article{arxiv.2403.05398,
title = {The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper},
author = {Vincenzo Mainieri and Richard I. Anderson and Jarle Brinchmann and Andrea Cimatti and Richard S. Ellis and Vanessa Hill and Jean-Paul Kneib and Anna F. McLeod and Cyrielle Opitom and Martin M. Roth and Paula Sanchez-Saez and Rodolfo Smiljanic and Eline Tolstoy and Roland Bacon and Sofia Randich and Angela Adamo and Francesca Annibali and Patricia Arevalo and Marc Audard and Stefania Barsanti and Giuseppina Battaglia and Amelia M. Bayo Aran and Francesco Belfiore and Michele Bellazzini and Emilio Bellini and Maria Teresa Beltran and Leda Berni and Simone Bianchi and Katia Biazzo and Sofia Bisero and Susanna Bisogni and Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Stephane Blondin and Julia Bodensteiner and Henri M. J. Boffin and Rosaria Bonito and Giuseppe Bono and Nicolas F. Bouche and Dominic Bowman and Vittorio F. Braga and Angela Bragaglia and Marica Branchesi and Anna Brucalassi and Julia J. Bryant and Ian Bryson and Innocenza Busa and Stefano Camera and Carmelita Carbone and Giada Casali and Mark Casali and Viviana Casasola and Norberto Castro and Marcio Catelan and Lorenzo Cavallo and Cristina Chiappini and Maria-Rosa Cioni and Matthew Colless and Laura Colzi and Sofia Contarini and Warrick Couch and Filippo D'Ammando and William d'Assignies D. and Valentina D'Orazi and Ronaldo da Silva and Maria Giovanna Dainotti and Francesco Damiani and Camilla Danielski and Annalisa De Cia and Roelof S. de Jong and Suhail Dhawan and Philippe Dierickx and Simon P. Driver and Ulyana Dupletsa and Stephanie Escoffier and Ana Escorza and Michele Fabrizio and Giuliana Fiorentino and Adriano Fontana and Francesco Fontani and Daniel Forero Sanchez and Patrick Franois and Francisco Jose Galindo-Guil and Anna Rita Gallazzi and Daniele Galli and Miriam Garcia and Jorge Garcia-Rojas and Bianca Garilli and Robert Grand and Mario Giuseppe Guarcello and Nandini Hazra and Amina Helmi and Artemio Herrero and Daniela Iglesias and Dragana Ilic and Vid Irsic and Valentin D. Ivanov and Luca Izzo and Pascale Jablonka and Benjamin Joachimi and Darshan Kakkad and Sebastian Kamann and Sergey Koposov and Georges Kordopatis and Andjelka B. Kovacevic and Katarina Kraljic and Hanindyo Kuncarayakti and Yuna Kwon and Fiorangela La Forgia and Ofer Lahav and Clotilde Laigle and Monica Lazzarin and Ryan Leaman and Floriane Leclercq and Khee-Gan Lee and David Lee and Matt D. Lehnert and Paulina Lira and Eleonora Loffredo and Sara Lucatello and Laura Magrini and Kate Maguire and Guillaume Mahler and Fatemeh Zahra Majidi and Nicola Malavasi and Filippo Mannucci and Marcella Marconi and Nicolas Martin and Federico Marulli and Davide Massari and Tadafumi Matsuno and Jorryt Mattheee and Sean McGee and Jaroslav Merc and Thibault Merle and Andrea Miglio and Alessandra Migliorini and Ivan Minchev and Dante Minniti and Nuria Miret-Roig and Ana Monreal Ibero and Federico Montano and Ben T. Montet and Michele Moresco and Chiara Moretti and Lauro Moscardini and Andres Moya and Oliver Mueller and Themiya Nanayakkara and Matt Nicholl and Thomas Nordlander and Francesca Onori and Marco Padovani and Anna Francesca Pala and Swayamtrupta Panda and Mamta Pandey-Pommier and Luca Pasquini and Michal Pawlak and Priscila J. Pessi and Alice Pisani and Lukav C. Popovic and Loredana Prisinzano and Roberto Raddi and Monica Rainer and Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas and Johan Richard and Mickael Rigault and Antoine Rocher and Donatella Romano and Piero Rosati and Germano Sacco and Ruben Sanchez-Janssen and Andreas A. C. Sander and Jason L. Sanders and Mark Sargent and Elena Sarpa and Carlo Schimd and Pietro Schipani and Emiliano Sefusatti and Graham P. Smith and Lorenzo Spina and Matthias Steinmetz and Sandro Tacchella and Grazina Tautvaisiene and Christopher Theissen and Guillaume Thomas and Yuan-Sen Ting and Tony Travouillon and Laurence Tresse and Oem Trivedi and Maria Tsantaki and Maria Tsedrik and Tanya Urrutia and Elena Valenti and Mathieu Van der Swaelmen and Sophie Van Eck and Francesco Verdiani and Aurelien Verdier and Susanna Diana Vergani and Anne Verhamme and Joel Vernet and Giovanni Verza and Matteo Viel and Pauline Vielzeuf and Giustina Vietri and Jorick S. Vink and Carlos Viscasillas Vazquez and Hai-Feng Wang and Peter M. Weilbacher and Martin Wendt and Nicholas Wright and Quanzhi Ye and Christophe Yeche and Jiaxi Yu and Tayyaba Zafar and Stefano Zibetti and Bodo Ziegler and Igor Zinchenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05398},
year = {2024}
}
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194 pages, 66 figures. Comments are welcome ([email protected])