European Solar Telescope: project status
2008
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project for a large aperture (3-5 meters) ground-based telescope, to be located
in the Canary Islands. EST will be optimized for studies of magnetic coupling between the deep photosphere and upper
chromosphere. This will require diagnostics of the thermal, dynamic and magnetic properties of the plasma over many
scale heights, by using multiple wavelength imaging, spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry. The design of EST will
strongly emphasize the use of a large number of visible and near-infrared instruments simultaneously. To achieve these
goals, EST will specialize in high spatial and temporal resolution using instruments that can efficiently produce twodimensional
spectral information. In this communication, the present situation of the design is outlined, as well as the
expected future phases and scheduling.
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