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Alessandro Meoli

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arXiv2026

WST, the wide-field spectroscopic telescope: progress on the design of the instruments

WST, the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope is a proposed new facility that will provide a transformational gain in spectroscopic survey capability over existing facilities. The WST is a 12 metre class telescope equipped with instrumentation to provide simultaneous observations in both multiple-object spectroscopy and integral field spectroscopy modes. This paper will describe the status of the instruments being designed for the WST, the fibre positioner module, the low and high-resolution multiple object spectrographs, the integral field spectrograph, disperser technology, sustainable detector and cryostat technology, and the calibration system. An overview of the overall layout of the instruments within the WST facility will be provided.

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arXiv2026

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

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a concept for a dedicated 12-m spectroscopic survey facility designed to address some of the most important questions in astrophysics in the 2040s. The WST will provide unprecedented spectroscopic survey capabilities by operating simultaneously over a 2-degree diameter field of view with 54 low-resolution spectrographs fed by 30,000 fibres, 8-16 high-resolution spectrographs fed by 2,000 fibres, and a large panoramic low-resolution integral-field spectrograph. Supported by Horizon Europe, the concept study has refined the science cases, facility architecture, operations model, sustainability strategy, and technology roadmap. The resulting reference design demonstrates that the WST is both scientifically transformative and technically feasible, while identifying the developments required to mitigate the remaining risks. The WST is designed as an ESO flagship facility for the post-ELT construction era and a key spectroscopic complement to the major imaging, time-domain, and multi-messenger facilities of the coming decades.

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arXiv2026

An Analysis of Large Astronomical Detector Controller Systems and Implications for Future ESO Detector Systems

Large astronomical instruments using tens to hundreds of optical or infrared science detectors pose specific challenges for detector control, where, in addition to performance, other engineering aspects like scalability, power consumption, size, weight and programmatic aspects such as cost and sustainability need to be considered. In this paper we analyze the approach existing instruments have taken for detector control. We focus this analysis on recent ground based astronomical instruments using 10 or more detectors for science imaging or spectrography. From this analysis we identify key technologies, like cryogenic electronics, Ethernet based interfaces and fully-digital detectors, for implementing efficient control of many detectors. We also propose a concept joining all identified technologies that could be considered for future large ESO instruments as a complement of ESO's general detector controller, NGCII.

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