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Lego Figure holding a lego telescope. Photo

Arne Ardeberg

Professor emeritus

Lego Figure holding a lego telescope. Photo

Science drivers of a 50-m AO telescope

Author

  • Arne Ardeberg

Editor

  • Arne Ardeberg
  • Torben Andersen

Summary, in English

Some leading science programs undertaken with Very Large Telescopes and challenges driving the progress of the Extremely Large Telescopes are discussed together with the corresponding requirements. They concern expolanets, Earth-like planets, habitable zones, formation of stars and galaxies, first stars and cosmology. A description is attempted

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Undergoing reorganization

Publishing year

2003

Language

English

Pages

37-46

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5382

Issue

1

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

SPIE

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Keywords

  • stars formation
  • habitable zones
  • Earth-like planets
  • exoplanets
  • Extremely Large Telescopes
  • 50 m AO Telescope
  • Very Large Telescopes
  • star formation
  • galaxies
  • cosmology

Conference name

Second Bäckaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 2003

Conference date

2003-09-09 - 2003-09-11

Conference place

Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0277-786X
  • ISSN: 1996-756X