The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope

Project Information

WST

Grant agreement ID: 101183153

DOI

10.3030/101183153

EC signature date 14 October 2024

Start date 1 February 2025

End date 31 January 2028

Funded under

• Research infrastructures

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 2 999 942,50

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Conference proceedings (15)

High multiplex and precision: the design and development of FLEX, a grid-based fiber positioner with large patrol radius and minimized telecentric error

Author(s): Omadutt, S., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14154 Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VII, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.21243

Exploration of small footprint stick-slip piezoelectric actuators for use in the FLEX fibre positioner system for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST)

Author(s): Barrow, J., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14154 Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VII, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.09388

Guiding Design Choices for Wide-Field IFS: Trade-Offs Between Replication and Complexity for WST

Author(s): Cudennec, C., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14149 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.19159

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: progress on the design of the instruments

Author(s): Lee, D., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14149 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.01150

Embedding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the WST collaboration

Author(s): Fréour, L., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14151 Observatory Operations, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.19013

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: Telescope structure FE analyses

Author(s): D'Auria, S., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14147 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.01134

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: optical designs for the low-resolution multi-object spectrographs

Author(s): Saunders, W., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14149 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.05601

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: mechanical design and FE analysis for the high-resolution spectrograph MOS-HR

Author(s): D'Auria, S., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14149 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.01132

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST): design trade-offs for the low-resolution multi-object spectrograph instrument

Author(s): Buffat, D., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14149 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.24546

Current status of the High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS-HR) for the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

Author(s): Tozzi, A., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14149 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.01968

WST -- Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: The Next Leap in Wide-field Spectroscopy

Author(s): Bacon, R., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14147 Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes XI, 2026
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.20822

Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope (WST): coating strategy to achieve high optical throughput

Author(s): Sassolas, B., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14147 Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes XI, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.24179

WST multi-object spectrograph fiber positioners: development of a 32,000-unit precision robotic system

Author(s): Pernecker, S., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14154 Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VII, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.18957

Sustainability as a design parameter in the early development of the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

Author(s): Frèour, L., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14147 Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes XI,, 2026
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.18079

Progress of the design of the 12-m optical, Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST)

Author(s): Dierickx, P., et al.
Published in: SPIE 14147 Ground-based and Airborne, 2026
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.23786