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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) Consortium is currently seeking expressions of interest from international groups to engage with the AAT facility through pay-for-access
arrangements from July 2022. We ask those astronomers who receive this email to please circulate it to your international contacts or get in touch with AAL if you know of those who may be interested.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The AAT is a 3.9m equatorially-mounted Cassegrain reflector, located at Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia. It can be accessed via remote observing from nodes
around the world. The telescope is operated by the Australian National University on behalf of the funding Consortium, which at present comprises 13 Australian universities.</span><span style="background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The AAT currently offers four facility-class spectrographic instruments: AAOmega (with 2dF or Koala), Hermes and Veloce. The new Hector spectrograph is expected to come
online in 2021. <b>The attached flyer</b> gives more details about these instruments and their capabilities. Requests for the use of visitor instruments on the AAT will also be considered. </span><span style="background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">As part of this call, we welcome proposals and are open to conversations regarding conditions of access, including joining the Consortium as a full partner, medium-to-long-term
paid-time contracts, data-sharing or access, or other innovative arrangements. These may also include potential public outreach components. </span><span style="background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">If you are interested in seeking access on the AAT, please contact <a href="mailto:lucyna.chudczer@astronomyaustralia.org.au">Dr Lucyna Chudczer</a>, AAL’s Program Manager
for the AAT (<u><a href="mailto:lucyna.chudczer@astronomyaustralia.org.au">lucyna.chudczer@astronomyaustralia.org.au</a>)</u>, <b>by May 31 2021. </b>Please include an expression of interest (up to 2 pages) detailing how you wish to use the telescope; this
may involve instruments of interest, length/time of proposed use, research details or the outreach component, and level and source of potential funding support. </span><span style="background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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