Science with the VLT in the ELT Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. VLT Science Highlights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. VLT Science Highlights

      • Alvio Renzini

      Pages 3-14

   3. Pushing the VLT Spectroscopy of Distant Galaxies to the Limits and Future Prospects

      • Andrea Cimatti

      Pages 15-21

   4. Pushing FORS to the Limit—A New Population of Faint Extended Lyα Emitters at z∼3

      • Martin G. Haehnelt, Michael Rauch, Andrew Bunker, George Becker, Francine Marleau, James Graham et al.

      Pages 23-26

   5. VIMOS Integral Field Spectroscopy of Gaseous Nebulae in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies

      • E. V. Held, M. Gullieuszik, I. Saviane, F. Sabbadin, Y. Momany, L. Rizzi et al.

      Pages 27-28

   6. Near IR Integral Field Spectroscopy of a Nearby Starburst

      • L. Vanzi, G. Cresci, J. Melnick, E. Telles

      Pages 29-30

   7. The ESO Large Programme “First Stars”

      • P. Bonifacio, J. Andersen, S. M. Andrievsky, B. Barbuy, T. C. Beers, E. Caffau et al.

      Pages 31-35

   8. The Contribution of UVES@VLT to the New Era of QSO Absorption Line Studies

      • Valentina D’Odorico, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky

      Pages 37-42

   9. IMAGES: A Unique View of the Galaxy Mass Assembly Since z=1

      • M. Puech, F. Hammer, H. Flores, Y. Yang, B. Neichel

      Pages 43-47

   10. The Metallicity Evolution at High Redshift

       • R. Maiolino, T. Nagao, A. Grazian, F. Cocchia, the Amaze Team

       Pages 49-53

   11. Near-IR Spectroscopy of Blue Supergiants

       • N. Przybilla, A. Seifahrt, K. Butler, M. F. Nieva, H.-U. Käufl, A. Kaufer

       Pages 55-60

   12. Integral Field Spectroscopy of Protoplanetary Disks in Orion with VLT FLAMES

       • Y. G. Tsamis, J. R. Walsh, D. Péquignot

       Pages 61-65

   13. MAD@VLT: Deep into the Madding Crowd of Omega Centauri

       • G. Bono, A. Calamida, C. E. Corsi, P. B. Stetson, E. Marchetti, P. Amico et al.

       Pages 67-71

   14. Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy and Supernova Yields after UVES

       • G. Israelian, P. Bonifacio

       Pages 73-77

3. VLTI Science Highlights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. VLTI Science Highlights

      • Guy Perrin

      Pages 81-87

   3. MIDI Sees Active Galactic Nuclei

      • W. Jaffe, D. Raban, K. Meisenheimer, K. Tristram, Ch. Leinert, H. Röttgering

      Pages 89-93

   4. The Use of the VLTI for Studying the Asymmetric Mass Loss of Evolved Stars

      • Olivier Chesneau

      Pages 95-99

   5. Mid-infrared Interferometric Observations of Young Circumstellar Discs

      • Th. Ratzka, Ch. Leinert, R. van Boekel, A. A. Schegerer

      Pages 101-105

The Workshop “Science with the VLT in the ELT Era” held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO, with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee, to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term future of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its interferometric mode (VLTI). In particular it was considered useful for future planning to evaluate how its science use may evolve over the next decade due to competition and/or synergy with new facilities such as ALMA, JWST and, hopefully, at least one next generation 30–40 m extremely large telescope whose acronym appears in the title to symbolise this wider context. These discussions were also held in the fresh light of the Science Vision recently developed within ASTRONET as the rst step towards a 20 year plan for implementing astronomical facilities—the rst such attempt within Europe. Speci c ideas and proposals for new, second generation VLT/I instruments were also solicited following a tradition set by several earlier Workshops held since the start of the VLT development. The programme consisted of invited talks and reviews and contributed talks and posters. Almost all those given are included here although, unfortunately not the several lively but constructive discussion sessions.

• ALMA
• Astronomical instrumentation
• Extremely Large telescope
• JWST
• Telescopes
• VLT
• instruments
• interferometry

• European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

  Alan Moorwood

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