Progress Meeting no. 3 took place at LAM (Marseille) in december 2023 | ||
Progress Meeting no. 2 took place at ESO (Garching) in september 2023 | ||
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Artistic depiction of a supermassive black hole accreting material from a disk. Gaseous outflows from these SMBHs can heat and even expel the surrounding interstellar medium, thus halting any subsequent star formation in the galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. | ||
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Consortium
The workhorse instruments of the current 8-10m class observatories are multi-object spectrographs (MOS), providing comprehensive follow-up of ground-based and space-borne imaging data. With the advent of even deeper imaging surveys from, e.g., HST, VISTA, JWST and Euclid, many science cases require complementary spectroscopy with high sensitivity and good spatial resolution to identify the objects and to measure their astrophysical parameters. The light-gathering power of the 39m ELT and its spatial resolution, combined with a MOS, will enable the large samples necessary to tackle some of the key scientific drivers of the ELT project, ranging from studies of stellar populations out to the highest-redshift galaxies. Consequently, a MOS-facility is foreseen within the ELT instrumentation plan. | ||