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| Paper: |
Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: A Conference Summary |
| Volume: |
507, Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields |
| Page: |
465 |
| Authors: |
Trager, S. C. |
| Abstract: |
I present a highly-biased summary of the conference “Multi-Object
Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and
Wide Fields,” held 2–6 March 2015 in Santa Cruz de la Palma,
Spain. I focus on four issues in this summary: (1) complexity in
objects, physics, and instruments is driving the field of
large-scale multi-object spectroscopic surveys; (2) statistics is
important to drive conclusions, but inference is as or even more
important; (3) multi-wavelength surveys are necessary, particularly
for understanding galaxies and cosmology; and (4) a large number of
new multi-object spectrographs at a wide variety of wavelengths are
either already here or will rapidly be available. This conference
shows that we are just learning how to get the most (astrophysics)
out of these instruments. |
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