The 4MOST All Hands Meeting 2017 will take place at CRAL in the beautiful city of Lyon on 11-15 September 2017. The 4MOST All-Hands is a mixture of science, engineering, and management meetings, spread over…
The first ‘Kick Off Meeting’ of the WAVES management group took place over 10th July – 14th July 2017 at Edinburgh University (UK), at which the full WAVES Project Office was in attendance. Various WAVES team…
The 4MOST All-Hands meeting 2016 took place in the week of 19-23 September 2016 at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. The 4MOST All-Hands is a mixture of science, engineering, and management meetings, spread over plenary…
ESO has signed an agreement with a consortium led by the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) to build 4MOST, a unique, next-generation spectroscopic instrument which will be mounted on the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope…
Australian P.I. (Driver), both PSs (Davies & Robotham) and PM (Mannering) attended the Astronomical Society of Australia AGM at the University of Sydney. WAVES-Deep PS L. Davies presented an introduction to 4MOST, AESOP, the WAVES…
WAVES PI (Driver) and WAVES-Deep PS (Davies) attended eROSITA MPI Ringberg workshop in Germany to discuss synergy between WAVES and eROSITA. Specific emphasis was placed on the combination of the WAVES-deep groups/clusters and eROSITA, with…
Version 2 of the WAVES Survey Management Plan (SMP) and Survey Science Plan (SSP) have been released. The SMP for WAVES provides a brief summary of the survey science, a detailed breakdown of the expected…
The N-body simulation programme supporting WAVES and more broadly 4MOST galaxy formation and cosmology projects is well under way. We have 1.5 million CPU hours on the Pawsey supercomputing centre in Perth, WA, to run…
Australian P.I Simon Driver attended the international meeting "Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science" in Pasadena from 29 Feb through to 2 March 2016. WFIRST is an upcoming NASA mission which will utilise an existing 2.4m…
Simon Driver and Aaron Robotham (WAVES co-PI and WAVES-Wide PS) at the University of Western Australia successfully led a second ARC LIEF bid for continued funding of the Australian–European Southern Observatory Positioner (AESOP). Combined with…