Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction to Meeting: Towards VLT/VLTI 2nd Generation Instruments
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   Chapter 2 The Physics of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and the Nature of Their Host Galaxies
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   Chapter 3 Faint Object Spectroscopy and GRBs: The Need for a Spectroscopic Laboratory at the VLT
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   Chapter 4 Absorption Studies with GRB Afterglows
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   Chapter 5 Advanced Telerobotic Field Spectrometer
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   Chapter 6 REM — Rapid Eye Mount. A Fast Slewing Robotized Telescope to Monitor the Prompt Infra-Red Afterglow of GRBs
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   Chapter 7 Observing the First Galaxies — A Case for an Intermediate Resolution Multi-Object IR Spectrograph
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   Chapter 8 3D Spatial Distribution of the Intergalactic Medium: The ESO Blues?
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    Chapter 9 Galaxy Evolution from Deep Multicolor Surveys: The VLT Perspective
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    Chapter 10 Astrophysical Applications of Tunable Imaging Filters for the VLT
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    Chapter 11 High Redshift Ellipticals: Prospects for the VLT
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    Chapter 12 Future VLT Instrumentation: An IoA View
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    Chapter 13 Multi-Object Spectroscopy: The Faint Object Case
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    Chapter 14 A Wide Field Multi-Object IR Imager and Spectrograph
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    Chapter 15 MAXIMUS: Exploiting the Full Power of OzPoz
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    Chapter 16 A Million Element Integral Field Unit (MEIFU)
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    Chapter 17 A Mega Integral Field Spectrograph for the VLT
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    Chapter 18 CROMOS: A Cryogenic Near-Infrared, Multi-Object Spectrometer for the VLT
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    Chapter 19 Multiple Integral Field Spectroscopy
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    Chapter 20 Crowded Field 3D Spectroscopy — The Next Step: First Light for PMAS
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    Chapter 21 The FALCON Concept: Multi-Object Spectroscopy Combined with MCAO in Near-IR
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    Chapter 22 Scientific Potential of Enhancing the Integral-Field Spectrometer SPIFFI with a Large Detector and High Spectral Resolution
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    Chapter 23 Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics with Laser Guide Stars
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    Chapter 24 MOEMS, Key Optical Components for the Future Instrumentation of VLT
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    Chapter 25 Spectroscopy of Faint Emission Line Nebulae
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    Chapter 26 Near-IR Spectroscopy with VLT/ISAAC: Distribution and Kinematics of Molecular Gas in the Nucleus of NGC 1068
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    Chapter 27 Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group: The VLT Perspectivev
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    Chapter 28 Identification and Study of Blue Supergiants in Nearby Galaxies
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    Chapter 29 Quantitative Spectroscopy of Local Group Supergiants
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    Chapter 30 A Super-Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the VLT
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    Chapter 31 Rectifying Échelle Spectra — A Comparison Between UVES, FEROS and FOCES
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    Chapter 32 Scientific Objectives and Design Study of an Adaptive Optics Visual Echelle Spectrograph and Imager Coronograph (AVES-IMCO) for the NAOS Visitor Focus at the VLT
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    Chapter 33 Massive Spectroscopy of (Stellar) Fields
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    Chapter 34 Stellar Oscillations Studies with STOMACH
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    Chapter 35 Proposal for a VLT Multichannel Infrared Heterodyne Instrument Based on THIS (Tuneable Heterodyne Infrared Spectrometer)
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    Chapter 36 Imaging Polarimetry and Spectropolarimetry of Bright Objects
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    Chapter 37 High-Resolution Spectropolarimetry on the VLT
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    Chapter 38 Transmission Spectroscopy for Extrasolar-Planet Studies: UVES Search and Future Prospects
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    Chapter 39 Zero Noise CCD: A New Readout Technique for Extremely Low Light Levels
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    Chapter 40 A Differential Imager for Adaptive Optics
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    Chapter 41 Very Accurate Imaging of the Close Environment of Bright Objects in Visible and Near-Infrared
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    Chapter 42 High-Contrast Imaging Science with Adaptive Optics
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    Chapter 43 Coronagraphy with 4Q Phase Mask on the VLT
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    Chapter 44 Achromatic Interfero-Coronagraphy and VLT
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    Chapter 45 Growing Up — The Completion of the VLTI
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    Chapter 46 The VLTI Adulthood: Scientific Drivers for Future VLTI Instrumentation
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    Chapter 47 Imaging Interferometry — Experience from COAST and Implications for the VLTI
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    Chapter 48 VLTI Imaging Instrument Using the Full Potential of the Interferometric Array
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    Chapter 49 The Pre-PRIMA Survey Project: Turning the Problem Around
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    Chapter 50 The Scientific Potential of MIDI in the 20 μm Window
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    Chapter 51 The Potential of an Extension of Amber to the Visible
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    Chapter 52 FINITO: A Fringe Sensor for VLTI in Two and Three Beam Configuration
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    Chapter 53 Scientific Drivers for a Future Polarimetric Mode for the VLTI: VISPER
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    Chapter 54 Search and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets Using VLT/VLTI Instrumentation
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    Chapter 55 Optimizing a Differential Interferometric Instrument
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    Chapter 56 NEVEC: The NOVA ESO VLTI Expertise Centre