Definition and Preparation of the 4MOST Galactic Surveys (A09)

• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2015 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713538

4MOST is a major new facility under construction for ESO with strong involvement of LSW and ARI, which will provide spectra of over 40 million stars and 40 million galaxies at resolution R>5000, and of 5 million stars at R~20,000. Starting in 2022, 4MOST will deploy 2436 optical fibers in a 4.1 deg2 field of view to survey the whole Southern sky. We will help to prepare the 4MOST surveys of the Galactic halo, bulge, and Magellanic Clouds by refining their scientific goals and survey strategies, compiling a target data base, and developing automated data re-duction pipelines for the quantitative analysis of stellar spectra from raw data to derived infor-mation such as abundances.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 881: The Milky Way System
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Norbert Christlieb; Professorin Dr. Eva K. Grebel; Professor Dr. Andreas Quirrenbach