This edition contains updates from the Project Office on the WAVES input catalogues, complementary surveys and the new WAVES simulations suite: SURFS. Our feature article; ‘Making WAVES: Spectral Simulations for 4MOST’, details the work done by WAVES-Deep Project Scientist Luke Davies combining his spectral generation tool with the 4MOST exposure time calculator and realistic mock catalogues to simulate the full observing process.
- 4MOST All-Hands 2017
- WAVES Management Group Kick Off Meeting
- 4MOST All-Hands 2016
- Agreement Signed to Build 4MOST
- Introduction to WAVES presented at the Astronomical Society of Australia AGM, 4th-8th July
- eRosita Workshop; synergy with WAVES
- Version 2 of the WAVES Survey Management Plan (SMP) and Survey Science Plan (SSP) released.
- Simulations Group Update [Chris Power]
- WAVES presentation at WFIRST meeting
- Successful ARC LIEF bid plus University contributions awards a total of $880k towards continued construction of AESOP
