Large collaborations

CUBES

The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) is a new near-UV low- (R ~ 6 000) and medium-resolution (R ∼ 20 000) spectrograph being built for the 8-m VLT and expected to be installed in 2029. I am the Polish national co-PI in the consortium (which counts also with partners in Italy, Brazil, Germany, the UK, and Slovenia).

WST

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) will be a 12-m telescope for multi-object spectroscopy. It will have a large field-of-view (3.1 deg2) and high multiplex (>30 000), with both medium and high resolution modes and a large integral field unit. I am part of the steering committee and co-leader of the Galactic science working group.

Gaia

Gaia is a scientific spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) that is making a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, by measuring the position and motion of more than a billion stars. Since November 2022, I am member of the the Gaia Science Team (GST), a committee that advises ESA, through the Gaia Project Scientist (Dr Johannes Sahlmann), on all top-level science performance, science policy and science organization aspects of the Gaia mission.

HRMOS

The High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (HRMOS) is a new instrument planned for the 8-m VLT. It will combine high-resolution (R ~ 80k) with multiplex between 50 in a FoV of 25 arcmin of diameter. I am member of the core science team that is developing the science case for HRMOS (since June 2020).

Research news

Paper accepted in A&A!

The paper "Carbon and nitrogen as indicators of stellar evolution and age. A homogeneous sample of 44 open clusters from the Gaia-ESO Survey" has been accepted for publication in A&A.

WST science leaders meeting in Lausanne, CH.

The leaders of all science working groups of the WST project met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss the driving science cases for this future facility.

First Ph.D. defence in the SAGA Team

On September 26, the Ph.D. candidate André Rodrigo da Silva successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. André is the first student to conclude his doctorate at the SAGA Team.

Paper accepted in A&A!

The paper "Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets" has been accepted for publication in A&A.

SAGA Team at PTA 2025

The 42nd meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society (PTA for the acronym in Polish) took place in Warsaw, between 8-12 September. Four works with participation of the SAGA Team have been presented.

Research note on solar lithium

A short research note entitled "Testing the Solar Lithium Abundance with a Survival Model" has now been published at RNAAS.