{"paper":{"title":"Progress of the design of the 12-m optical, Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST)","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"B. Sassolas, C. Cudennec, C. Del Vecchio, D. Lee, G. Gausachs, L. Fr\\'eour, L. Pinard, O. Bellido-Tirado, P. Dierickx, P. Doel, R. Bacon, R. Navarro, S. D\\'Auria, T. Augusteijn, T. Travouillon, V. Cianniello, V. De Caprio, W. Saunders, W. Sutherland","submitted_at":"2026-07-26T18:01:19Z","abstract_excerpt":"The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a 12-m class, Alt-Az optical telescope providing two simultaneous foci, 2 degrees and 3 by 3 arc minutes respectively, for Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) and Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) at visible wavelengths. Within the framework of the Horizon Programme, the project has been approved for phase A funding by the EC in 2024 and is currently undergoing intensive development. The optical design relies on a corrected Cassegrain solution feeding multi-object spectrographs through fibres, while the central area of the field is propagated to a gr"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2607.23786","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2607.23786/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}