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WAVES Team Members appointed to 4MOST IWGs

WAVESOctober 23, 2015

Three WAVES team members are appointed to 4MOST Infrastructure Working Groups. Chris Power is appointed Chair of the 4MOST Science Simulations working group (IWG5) following the Cambridge 4MOST All-hands meeting. Davies (WAVES-Deep PS) and Croom…

Successful first 4MOST All-Hands meeting

WAVESOctober 22, 2015

The first ‘All Hands Meeting’ of the 4MOST consortium took place over 28th September - 2nd October 2015 at Cambridge University (UK), at which the full WAVES Project Office was in attendance. Participants included the…

WAVES design concept paper accepted and available online

WAVESJuly 22, 2015

First publication from the WAVES team outlying the contemporary survey design and science goals accepted and available online (Driver et. al., 2015). Paper is from conference proceeding of "The Universe of the Digital Sky Surveys"…

WAVES Project Office Established and co-PI appointed

WAVESApril 1, 2015

WAVES Project Office established across the UWA node (Perth) of ICRAR and the University of Hamburg. Joe Liske is appointed as co-PI following successful University of Hamburg funding request. Joe Liske is appointed as chair…

ARC LIEF award plus University partners provide 1.2million…

WAVESNovember 22, 2014

The Australian Research Council announced ~$600k LINKAGE INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES (LIEF) funding for the Australian–European Southern Observatory Positioner (AESOP). This funding is in addition to University partners contributions and AAO development costs, reaching a…

WAVES Survey Management Plan v1.0 released

WAVESNovember 11, 2014

The Survey Management Plan (SMP) for WAVES provides a brief summary of the survey science, scientific requirements for the 4MOST instrument, a detailed breakdown of the expected work packages and involvement with the 4MOST Infrastructure…

Team Kick-Off

WAVESNovember 1, 2014

Science Team preliminary design kick-off meeting in Potsdam.