This is the start of a long process to ultimately operate new advanced capabilities at Paranal that can keep up with the evergrowing need for larger and more complex astrophysical data sets. A modern instrument represents a very significant investment in cash, human resources and time. Such a meeting gives us a precious yardstick to evaluate the competitiveness of 1st-generation instruments and associated current and forthcoming proposals for 1st-generation upgrades. This is also crucial to orient the large research and development effort that will provide the very foundation on which 2nd-generation VLT instrumentation can be built. Finally, it represents a significant step towards defining the hopes and goals for the future Extremely Large Telescope to come. The first outcome of this meeting, already in progress, is outlined in the epilogue.
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11 farbige Abbildungen, 231 s/w Abbildungen
XVII, 356 p. 242 illus., 11 illus. in color.
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ISBN-13
978-3-662-43215-0 (9783662432150)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-43215-0
Schweitzer Klassifikation
From the Contents: Introduction.- The Reshifted Universe.- Nearby Galaxies, Stars and the Interstellar Medium.- High Spectral Resolution: AGNs, Stellar Environments and Planets.
