We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal. Its key specifications are: a large field of view (FoV) of 4.2 square degrees and a high multiplex capability, with 1624 fibres feeding two low-resolution spectrographs (R = λ/Δλ 6500), and 812 fibres transferring light to the high-resolution spectrograph (R 20 000). After a description of the instrument and its expected performance, a short overview is given of its operational scheme and planned 4MOST Consortium science; these aspects are covered in more detail in other articles in this edition of The Messenger. Finally, the processes, schedules, and policies concerning the selection of ESO Community Surveys are presented, commencing with a singular opportunity to submit Letters of Intent for Public Surveys during the first five years of 4MOST operations.

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals / Roelof S. De Jong; Oscar Agertz; Alex Agudo Berbel; James Aird; David A. Alexander; Anish Amarsi; Friedrich Anders; Rene Andrae; Behzad Ansarinejad; Wolfgang Ansorge; Pierre Antilogus; Heiko Anwand-Heerwart; Anke Arentsen; Anna Arnadottir; Martin Asplund; Matt Auger; Nicolas Azais; Dietrich Baade; Gabriella Baker; Sufyan Baker; Eduardo Balbinot; Ivan K. Baldry; Manda Banerji; Samuel Barden; Paul Barklem; Eléonore Barthélémy-Mazot; Chiara Battistini; Svend Bauer; Cameron P. M. Bell; Olga Bellido-Tirado; Sabine Bellstedt; Vasily Belokurov; Thomas Bensby; Maria Bergemann; Joachim M. Bestenlehner; Richard Bielby; Maciej Bilicki; Chris Blake; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Corrado Boeche; Wilfried Boland; Thomas Boller; Sebastien Bongard; Angela Bongiorno; Piercarlo Bonifacio; Didier Boudon; David Brooks; Michael J. I. Brown; Rebecca Brown; Marcus Brüggen; Joar Brynnel; Jurek Brzeski; Thomas Buchert; Peter Buschkamp; Elisabetta Caffau; Patrick Caillier; Jonathan Carrick; Luca Casagrande; Scott Case; Andrew Casey; Isabella Cesarini; Gabriele Cescutti; Diane Chapuis; Cristina Chiappini; Michael Childress; Norbert Christlieb; Ross Church; Maria-Rosa L. Cioni; Michelle Cluver; Matthew Colless; Thomas Collett; Johan Comparat; Andrew Cooper; Warrick Couch; Frederic Courbin; Scott Croom; Darren Croton; Eric Daguisé; Gavin Dalton; Luke J. M. Davies; Tamara Davis; Patrick De Laverny; Alis Deason; Frank Dionies; Karen Disseau; Peter Doel; Daniel Döscher; Simon P. Driver; Tom Dwelly; Dominique Eckert; Alastair Edge; Bengt Edvardsson; Dalal El Youssoufi; Ahmed Elhaddad; Harry Enke; Ghazaleh Erfanianfar; Tony Farrell; Thomas Fechner; Carmen Feiz; Sofia Feltzing; Ignacio Ferreras; Dietrich Feuerstein; Diane Feuillet; Alexis Finoguenov; Dominic Ford; Sotiria Fotopoulou; Morgan Fouesneau; Carlos Frenk; Steffen Frey; Wolfgang Gaessler; Stephan Geier; Nicola Gentile Fusillo; Ortwin Gerhard; Tommaso Giannantonio; Domenico Giannone; Brad Gibson; Peter Gillingham; Carlos González-Fernández; Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares; Stefan Gottloeber; Andrew Gould; Eva K. Grebel; Alain Gueguen; Guillaume Guiglion; Martin Haehnelt; Thomas Hahn; Camilla J. Hansen; Henrik Hartman; Katja Hauptner; Keith Hawkins; Dionne Haynes; Roger Haynes; Ulrike Heiter; Amina Helmi; Cesar Hernandez Aguayo; Paul Hewett; Samuel Hinton; David Hobbs; Sebastian Hoenig; David Hofman; Isobel Hook; Joshua Hopgood; Andrew Hopkins; Anna Hourihane; Louise Howes; Cullan Howlett; Tristan Huet; Mike Irwin; Olaf Iwert; Pascale Jablonka; Thomas Jahn; Knud Jahnke; Aurélien Jarno; Shoko Jin; Paula Jofre; Diana Johl; Damien Jones; Henrik Jönsson; Carola Jordan; Iva Karovicova; Arman Khalatyan; Andreas Kelz; Robert Kennicutt; David King; Francisco Kitaura; Jochen Klar; Urs Klauser; Jean-Paul Kneib; Andreas Koch; Sergey Koposov; Georges Kordopatis; Andreas Korn; Johan Kosmalski; Rubina Kotak; Mikhail Kovalev; Kathryn Kreckel; Yevgen Kripak; Mirko Krumpe; Koen Kuijken; Andrea Kunder; Iryna Kushniruk; Man I Lam; Georg Lamer; Florence Laurent; Jon Lawrence; Michael Lehmitz; Bertrand Lemasle; James Lewis; Baojiu Li; Chris Lidman; Karin Lind; Jochen Liske; Jean-Louis Lizon; Jon Loveday; Hans-Günter Ludwig; Richard M. McDermid; Kate Maguire; Vincenzo Mainieri; Slavko Mali; Holger Mandel; Kaisey Mandel; Liz Mannering; Sarah Martell; David Martinez Delgado; Gal Matijevic; Helen McGregor; Richard McMahon; Paul McMillan; Olga Mena; Andrea Merloni; Martin J. Meyer; Christophe Michel; Genoveva Micheva; Jean-Emmanuel Migniau; Ivan Minchev; Giacomo Monari; Rolf Muller; David Murphy; Daniel Muthukrishna; Kirpal Nandra; Ramon Navarro; Melissa Ness; Vijay Nichani; Robert Nichol; Harald Nicklas; Florian Niederhofer; Peder Norberg; Danail Obreschkow; Seb Oliver; Matt Owers; Naveen Pai; Sergei Pankratow; David Parkinson; Jens Paschke; Robert Paterson; Arlette Pecontal; Ian Parry; Dan Phillips; Annalisa Pillepich; Laurent Pinard; Jeff Pirard; Nikolai Piskunov; Volker Plank; Dennis Plüschke; Estelle Pons; Paola Popesso; Chris Power; Johan Pragt; Alexander Pramskiy; Dan Pryer; Marco Quattri; Anna Barbara De Andrade Queiroz; Andreas Quirrenbach; Swara Rahurkar; Anand Raichoor; Sofia Ramstedt; Arne Rau; Alejandra Recio-Blanco; Roland Reiss; Florent Renaud; Yves Revaz; Petra Rhode; Johan Richard; Amon David Richter; Hans-Walter Rix; Aaron S. G. Robotham; Ronald Roelfsema; Martino Romaniello; David Rosario; Florian Rothmaier; Boudewijn Roukema; Gregory Ruchti; Gero Rupprecht; Jan Rybizki; Nils Ryde; Andre Saar; Elaine Sadler; Martin Sahlén; Mara Salvato; Benoit Sassolas; Will Saunders; Allar Saviauk; Luca Sbordone; Thomas Schmidt; Olivier Schnurr; Ralf-Dieter Scholz; Axel Schwope; Walter Seifert; Tom Shanks; Andrew Sheinis; Tihomir Sivov; Asa Skuladottir; Stephen Smartt; Scott Smedley; Greg Smith; Robert Smith; Jenny Sorce; Lee Spitler; Else Starkenburg; Matthias Steinmetz; Ingo Stilz; Jesper Storm; Mark Sullivan; William Sutherland; Elizabeth Swann; Amélie Tamone; Edward N. Taylor; Julien Teillon; Elmo Tempel; Rik Ter Horst; Wing-Fai Thi; Eline Tolstoy; Scott Trager; Gregor Traven; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Laurence Tresse; Marica Valentini; Rien Van De Weygaert; Mario Van Den Ancker; Jovan Veljanoski; Sudharshan Venkatesan; Lukas Wagner; Karl Wagner; C. Jakob Walcher; Lew Waller; Nicholas Walton; Lingyu Wang; Roland Winkler; Lutz Wisotzki; C. Clare Worley; Gabor Worseck; Maosheng Xiang; Wenli Xu; David Yong; Cheng Zhao; Jessica Zheng; Florian Zscheyge; Daniel Zucker. - In: THE MESSENGER. - ISSN 0722-6691. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 0-0. [10.18727/0722-6691/5117]

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

Cristina Chiappini;David Murphy;Thomas Schmidt;Asa Skuladottir;
2019

Abstract

We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal. Its key specifications are: a large field of view (FoV) of 4.2 square degrees and a high multiplex capability, with 1624 fibres feeding two low-resolution spectrographs (R = λ/Δλ 6500), and 812 fibres transferring light to the high-resolution spectrograph (R 20 000). After a description of the instrument and its expected performance, a short overview is given of its operational scheme and planned 4MOST Consortium science; these aspects are covered in more detail in other articles in this edition of The Messenger. Finally, the processes, schedules, and policies concerning the selection of ESO Community Surveys are presented, commencing with a singular opportunity to submit Letters of Intent for Public Surveys during the first five years of 4MOST operations.
2019
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Roelof S. De Jong; Oscar Agertz; Alex Agudo Berbel; James Aird; David A. Alexander; Anish Amarsi; Friedrich Anders; Rene Andrae; Behzad Ansarinejad; Wolfgang Ansorge; Pierre Antilogus; Heiko Anwand-Heerwart; Anke Arentsen; Anna Arnadottir; Martin Asplund; Matt Auger; Nicolas Azais; Dietrich Baade; Gabriella Baker; Sufyan Baker; Eduardo Balbinot; Ivan K. Baldry; Manda Banerji; Samuel Barden; Paul Barklem; Eléonore Barthélémy-Mazot; Chiara Battistini; Svend Bauer; Cameron P. M. Bell; Olga Bellido-Tirado; Sabine Bellstedt; Vasily Belokurov; Thomas Bensby; Maria Bergemann; Joachim M. Bestenlehner; Richard Bielby; Maciej Bilicki; Chris Blake; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Corrado Boeche; Wilfried Boland; Thomas Boller; Sebastien Bongard; Angela Bongiorno; Piercarlo Bonifacio; Didier Boudon; David Brooks; Michael J. I. Brown; Rebecca Brown; Marcus Brüggen; Joar Brynnel; Jurek Brzeski; Thomas Buchert; Peter Buschkamp; Elisabetta Caffau; Patrick Caillier; Jonathan Carrick; Luca Casagrande; Scott Case; Andrew Casey; Isabella Cesarini; Gabriele Cescutti; Diane Chapuis; Cristina Chiappini; Michael Childress; Norbert Christlieb; Ross Church; Maria-Rosa L. Cioni; Michelle Cluver; Matthew Colless; Thomas Collett; Johan Comparat; Andrew Cooper; Warrick Couch; Frederic Courbin; Scott Croom; Darren Croton; Eric Daguisé; Gavin Dalton; Luke J. M. Davies; Tamara Davis; Patrick De Laverny; Alis Deason; Frank Dionies; Karen Disseau; Peter Doel; Daniel Döscher; Simon P. Driver; Tom Dwelly; Dominique Eckert; Alastair Edge; Bengt Edvardsson; Dalal El Youssoufi; Ahmed Elhaddad; Harry Enke; Ghazaleh Erfanianfar; Tony Farrell; Thomas Fechner; Carmen Feiz; Sofia Feltzing; Ignacio Ferreras; Dietrich Feuerstein; Diane Feuillet; Alexis Finoguenov; Dominic Ford; Sotiria Fotopoulou; Morgan Fouesneau; Carlos Frenk; Steffen Frey; Wolfgang Gaessler; Stephan Geier; Nicola Gentile Fusillo; Ortwin Gerhard; Tommaso Giannantonio; Domenico Giannone; Brad Gibson; Peter Gillingham; Carlos González-Fernández; Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares; Stefan Gottloeber; Andrew Gould; Eva K. Grebel; Alain Gueguen; Guillaume Guiglion; Martin Haehnelt; Thomas Hahn; Camilla J. Hansen; Henrik Hartman; Katja Hauptner; Keith Hawkins; Dionne Haynes; Roger Haynes; Ulrike Heiter; Amina Helmi; Cesar Hernandez Aguayo; Paul Hewett; Samuel Hinton; David Hobbs; Sebastian Hoenig; David Hofman; Isobel Hook; Joshua Hopgood; Andrew Hopkins; Anna Hourihane; Louise Howes; Cullan Howlett; Tristan Huet; Mike Irwin; Olaf Iwert; Pascale Jablonka; Thomas Jahn; Knud Jahnke; Aurélien Jarno; Shoko Jin; Paula Jofre; Diana Johl; Damien Jones; Henrik Jönsson; Carola Jordan; Iva Karovicova; Arman Khalatyan; Andreas Kelz; Robert Kennicutt; David King; Francisco Kitaura; Jochen Klar; Urs Klauser; Jean-Paul Kneib; Andreas Koch; Sergey Koposov; Georges Kordopatis; Andreas Korn; Johan Kosmalski; Rubina Kotak; Mikhail Kovalev; Kathryn Kreckel; Yevgen Kripak; Mirko Krumpe; Koen Kuijken; Andrea Kunder; Iryna Kushniruk; Man I Lam; Georg Lamer; Florence Laurent; Jon Lawrence; Michael Lehmitz; Bertrand Lemasle; James Lewis; Baojiu Li; Chris Lidman; Karin Lind; Jochen Liske; Jean-Louis Lizon; Jon Loveday; Hans-Günter Ludwig; Richard M. McDermid; Kate Maguire; Vincenzo Mainieri; Slavko Mali; Holger Mandel; Kaisey Mandel; Liz Mannering; Sarah Martell; David Martinez Delgado; Gal Matijevic; Helen McGregor; Richard McMahon; Paul McMillan; Olga Mena; Andrea Merloni; Martin J. Meyer; Christophe Michel; Genoveva Micheva; Jean-Emmanuel Migniau; Ivan Minchev; Giacomo Monari; Rolf Muller; David Murphy; Daniel Muthukrishna; Kirpal Nandra; Ramon Navarro; Melissa Ness; Vijay Nichani; Robert Nichol; Harald Nicklas; Florian Niederhofer; Peder Norberg; Danail Obreschkow; Seb Oliver; Matt Owers; Naveen Pai; Sergei Pankratow; David Parkinson; Jens Paschke; Robert Paterson; Arlette Pecontal; Ian Parry; Dan Phillips; Annalisa Pillepich; Laurent Pinard; Jeff Pirard; Nikolai Piskunov; Volker Plank; Dennis Plüschke; Estelle Pons; Paola Popesso; Chris Power; Johan Pragt; Alexander Pramskiy; Dan Pryer; Marco Quattri; Anna Barbara De Andrade Queiroz; Andreas Quirrenbach; Swara Rahurkar; Anand Raichoor; Sofia Ramstedt; Arne Rau; Alejandra Recio-Blanco; Roland Reiss; Florent Renaud; Yves Revaz; Petra Rhode; Johan Richard; Amon David Richter; Hans-Walter Rix; Aaron S. G. Robotham; Ronald Roelfsema; Martino Romaniello; David Rosario; Florian Rothmaier; Boudewijn Roukema; Gregory Ruchti; Gero Rupprecht; Jan Rybizki; Nils Ryde; Andre Saar; Elaine Sadler; Martin Sahlén; Mara Salvato; Benoit Sassolas; Will Saunders; Allar Saviauk; Luca Sbordone; Thomas Schmidt; Olivier Schnurr; Ralf-Dieter Scholz; Axel Schwope; Walter Seifert; Tom Shanks; Andrew Sheinis; Tihomir Sivov; Asa Skuladottir; Stephen Smartt; Scott Smedley; Greg Smith; Robert Smith; Jenny Sorce; Lee Spitler; Else Starkenburg; Matthias Steinmetz; Ingo Stilz; Jesper Storm; Mark Sullivan; William Sutherland; Elizabeth Swann; Amélie Tamone; Edward N. Taylor; Julien Teillon; Elmo Tempel; Rik Ter Horst; Wing-Fai Thi; Eline Tolstoy; Scott Trager; Gregor Traven; Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay; Laurence Tresse; Marica Valentini; Rien Van De Weygaert; Mario Van Den Ancker; Jovan Veljanoski; Sudharshan Venkatesan; Lukas Wagner; Karl Wagner; C. Jakob Walcher; Lew Waller; Nicholas Walton; Lingyu Wang; Roland Winkler; Lutz Wisotzki; C. Clare Worley; Gabor Worseck; Maosheng Xiang; Wenli Xu; David Yong; Cheng Zhao; Jessica Zheng; Florian Zscheyge; Daniel Zucker
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