E-ELT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION

Project documents

E-ELT Construction Proposal

• Executive Summary
• Full proposal

E-ELT Phase B Final Design Review, 21–24 September 2010:

• Report of the Review Board - Executive Summary
• Project Response to the Report - Executive Summary

Technical publications

A large number of SPIE pubications describe the various technical aspects of the project, including the E-ELT design and its instrumentation. They can be found on the Technical/SPIE publication page.

Science Case documents

An Expanded View of the Universe
Science with the European Extremely Large Telescope.

A more detailed account of the E-ELT Science Case can be found in these documents.

Scientific papers

Scientific publications describing the science case for ELTs as well as publications related to the scientific aspects of the E-ELT are archived in
the scientific publication section.

Messenger articles

Messenger No. 127 (March 2007)
Messenger No. 133 (September 2008)

Powerpoint presentations intended for public use

Please feel free to use any of the material below as part of your own presentations. Please also note that a large collection of E-ELT images is available in the Gallery.

• 10 slides summary of the E-ELT project (as .pdf or as .ppt, M. Kissler-Patig, April 2009)
• One-slide summary of the E-ELT (M. Kissler-Patig, January 2009)
• Overview of the E-ELT Science Case (M. Kissler-Patig, November 2008)

E-ELT Working Group reports [from April 2006]

WG1 – Science
WG2 – Instruments
WG3 – Site Evaluation
WG4 – Telescope Design
WG5 – Adaptive Optics

E-ELT in the news

Below is a collection of news stories and broadcasts featuring the E-ELT.
Links to additional stories (in any language) are most welcome.

Riesenauge (Aktiv, 17 December 2011, in German)
Huge telescope 'to reveal new view of cosmos' (BBC 4, 08 December 2011)
Megatelescopes look for support (Nature, 479, 18, 02 November 2011)
Das größte Auge der Welt (The world's biggest eye) (Hamburger Abendblatt, 13 January 2011, in German)
Die Suche nach Erde Nummer 2 (The Search for Earth No. 2) (Frankfurter Rundschau, 06 April 2010, in German)
Auf der Suche nach Erde Nummer 2 (Berliner Zeitung, 06 April 2010, in German)
ELT - przyszlosc astronomii optycznej? (Urania-Postepy Astronomii, Polish magazine popularizing the newest achievements in astronomy, 5, 2009, in Polish)
Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang (CNN, 18 August 2009)
Celebrating 400 years of the telescope (BBC Radio 4, 25 July 2009)
Cosmic Vision (National Geographic, July 2009)
E-ELT: Europas neuer Blick ins All (Frankfurter Neue Presse, 17 July 2009, in German)
Telescopes: From seas to space (The Independent, 15 July 2009)
Extremely Large Telescope surveys the past (Times, 27 June 2009)
World's Biggest Telescope - Sixty Symbols (YouTube, 23 Jun 2009)
New technique closes in on dark energy (Astronomy Magazine, June 2009)
The European Extremely Large Telescope (Ingenia online, June 2009)
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Telescope Astronomy (Science, 29 May 2009)
Das Extremely Large Telescope (Deutschlandfunk, 27 May 2009, in German)
'Lightest' exoplanet discovered (BBC, 21 April 2009)
World's largest telescope will search heavens for habitable planets like Earth (Telegraph, 04 April 2009)
Roadmap endorses extremely large telescope (Optics & Laser Europe, February 2009)
Dome Big Dome: Giant Observatories Augur New Era of Cosmology (Scientific American, 24 February 2009)
Galileos Enkel - HighTech für Teleskope von morgen (Deutsche Welle, 29 January 2009, in German)
Das Universum in neuen Spiegeln (NZZ am Sonntag, 19 October 2008, in German)
Riesenlupe für das All (Deutschlandfunk, 12 September 2008, in German)
E-ELT: The European Extremely Large Telescope (BBC Radio 4, 06 June 2008)