Dear all,

The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) Consortium is currently
seeking expressions of interest from international groups to engage with the
AAT facility through pay-for-access arrangements from July 2022. We ask
those astronomers who receive this email to please circulate it to your
international contacts or get in touch with AAL if you know of those who may be
interested.

The AAT is a 3.9m equatorially-mounted Cassegrain reflector,
located at Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia. It can be accessed via
remote observing from nodes around the world. The telescope is operated by the
Australian National University on behalf of the funding Consortium, which at
present comprises 13 Australian universities.

The AAT currently offers four facility-class spectrographic
instruments: AAOmega (with 2dF or Koala), Hermes and Veloce. The new
Hector spectrograph is expected to come online in 2021. The attached
flyer gives more details about these instruments and their
capabilities. Requests for the use of visitor instruments on the AAT will also
be considered. 

As part of this call, we welcome proposals and are open to
conversations regarding conditions of access, including joining the
Consortium as a full partner, medium-to-long-term paid-time contracts, data-sharing
or access, or other innovative arrangements. These may also include
potential public outreach components. 

If you are interested in seeking access on the AAT, please
contact Dr Lucyna Chudczer, AAL’s Program Manager for
the AAT (lucyna.chudczer@astronomyaustralia.org.au), by
May 31 2021. Please include an expression of interest (up to 2
pages) detailing how you wish to use the telescope; this may involve
instruments of interest, length/time of proposed use, research details or the
outreach component, and level and source of potential funding
support. 

For more information regarding the AAT, including available
instruments and capabilities, please visit: https://aat.anu.edu.au/science

Kind
regards,

Romy
Pearse

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Romy
Pearse

Communications
Manager

Astronomy
Australia Ltd

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