E-ELT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION

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

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.

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.

Recipes for planet formation (PhysicsWorld.com, 02 Nov 2009)
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 Aug 2009)
Celebrating 400 years of the telescope (BBC Radio 4, 25 Jul 2009)
Cosmic Vision (National Geographic, July 2009)
E-ELT: Europas neuer Blick ins All (Frankfurter Neue Presse, 17 Jul 2009, in German)
Telescopes: From seas to space (The Independent, 15 Jul 2009)
Extremely Large Telescope surveys the past (Times, 27 Jun 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 Apr 2009)
World's largest telescope will search heavens for habitable planets like Earth (Telegraph, 04 Apr 2009)
Roadmap endorses extremely large telescope (Optics & Laser Europe, Feb 2009)
Dome Big Dome: Giant Observatories Augur New Era of Cosmology (Scientific American, 24 Feb 2009)
Galileos Enkel - HighTech für Teleskope von morgen (Deutsche Welle, 29 Jan 2009, in German)
Das Universum in neuen Spiegeln (NZZ am Sonntag, 19 Oct 2008, in German)
Riesenlupe für das All (Deutschlandfunk, 12 Sep 2008, in German)
E-ELT: The European Extremely Large Telescope (BBC Radio 4, 06 Jun 2008)