[ASA] Fwd: GRAVITY+ Community Workshop , FEB 24 - 25, 2021 (virtual)

[Matthew Colless]

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From: "Paulo J. V. Garcia" <pgarcia at fe.up.pt<mailto:pgarcia at fe.up.pt>>
Subject: GRAVITY+ Community Workshop ,FEB 24 - 25, 2021 (virtual)
Date: 22 January 2021 at 20:17:55
To: matthew.colless at anu.edu.au<mailto:matthew.colless at anu.edu.au>
Cc: "S.Hoenig at soton.ac.uk<mailto:S.Hoenig at soton.ac.uk>" <S.Hoenig at soton.ac.uk<mailto:S.Hoenig at soton.ac.uk>>, "Kreidberg, Laura" <kreidberg at mpia.de<mailto:kreidberg at mpia.de>>


Dear Matthew,

We are organizing a Gravity+ community workshop, focused on A&A (not on instrumentation R&D). This has raised a lot of interest, with ~150 registrations, but Australia is still under-represent. Could you please circulate the announcement below in your community?

Thanks a lot! Best, Paulo


Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to a virtual  community workshop on the planned GRAVITY+ instrument upgrade. The workshop will  take place on Zoom on two half-days on 24 - 25 February 2021.

GRAVITY+ is  the first new Very Large Telescope (VLT) instrument selected following the “ESO in the 2030s” review. It will increase the sensitivity, sky coverage, and field of view of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) to enable milliarcsecond imaging and microarcsecond astrometry  in the infrared for a wide new range of Galactic and extragalactic science cases. GRAVITY+ constitutes a phased upgrade of the current, enormously successful GRAVITY instrument. With a final capability of fringe tracking down to K~15 mag, off-axis targets down to K~22 mag will be observable. By opening this new discovery space, the VLTI will become of broad interest to the European science community beyond the classical interferometry fields.

The aim of the community workshop is to present the instrument to potential future users, highlight the major science cases, and present new ideas from the community on the use of the instrument. This ranges from the Galactic Centre, active galactic nuclei, supermassive black hole binaries, tidal disruption event and intermediate mass black holes to the characterisation of exoplanets, young and old stars, and microlenses.

We aim for a wide participation of the ESO user base from Australia to Chile with one European afternoon session (24 February; Galactic science) and one morning session (25 February; Extragalactic science).

Please register free of charge by 8 February 2021 using the Registration  form.

There are also a limited number of time slots available for new ideas for GRAVITY+ science from the community, so please also consider submitting an abstract.

We look forward to welcoming you to the workshop!

With best wishes,

      Laura Kreidberg and Seb Hoenig, on behalf of the SOC

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Paulo J. V. Garcia,
Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Engenharia<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gUFCCJyBrGfYVpBOUVd3-x?domain=fe.up.pt>; CENTRA research unit<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/l6ZhCK1DvKTn68DKFvHrVb?domain=centra.tecnico.ulisboa.pt>
pgarcia at fe.up.pt<mailto:pgarcia at fe.up.pt>, WhatsApp/Cell: +351.9.6323.5785

Postal address: Faculdade de Engenharia, Departamento de Engenharia Física,
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal


Professor Matthew Colless <matthew.colless at anu.edu.au<mailto:matthew.colless at anu.edu.au>>
Director, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Work: +61-2-6125-0266 Mobile:+61-431-898-345

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