Schlichenmaier, R., Rubio, L.R.B., Collados, M. et al. (23 more authors) (Submitted: 2019) Science requirement document (SRD) for the European Solar Telescope (EST) (2nd edition, December 2019). arXiv. (Submitted)
Abstract
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a research infrastructure for solar physics. It is planned to be an on-axis solar telescope with an aperture of 4 m and equipped with an innovative suite of spectro-polarimetric and imaging post-focus instrumentation. The EST project was initiated and is driven by EAST, the European Association for Solar Telescopes. EAST was founded in 2006 as an association of 14 European countries. Today, as of December 2019, EAST consists of 26 European research institutes from 18 European countries.
The Preliminary Design Phase of EST was accomplished between 2008 and 2011. During this phase, in 2010, the first version of the EST Science Requirement Document (SRD) was published. After EST became a project on the ESFRI roadmap 2016, the preparatory phase started. The goal of the preparatory phase is to accomplish a final design for the telescope and the legal governance structure of EST. A major milestone on this path is to revisit and update the Science Requirement Document (SRD). The EST Science Advisory Group (SAG) has been constituted by EAST and the Board of the PRE-EST EU project in November 2017 and has been charged with the task of providing with a final statement on the science requirements for EST. Based on the conceptual design, the SRD update takes into account recent technical and scientific developments, to ensure that EST provides significant advancement beyond the current state-of-the-art.
The present update of the EST SRD has been developed and discussed during a series of EST SAG meetings. The SRD develops the top-level science objectives of EST into individual science cases. Identifying critical science requirements is one of its main goals. Those requirements will define the capabilities of EST and the post-focus instrument suite. The technical requirements for the final design of EST will be derived from the SRD.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | This paper has 26 authors. You can scroll the list below to see them all or them all.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). For reuse permissions, please contact the Author(s). |
Keywords: | astro-ph.SR; astro-ph.SR; astro-ph.IM |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number The Royal Society IE141493 European Commission - Horizon 2020 739500; 824135 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2020 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2020 18:26 |
Published Version: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08650v1 |
Status: | Submitted |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154969 |