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Table 1

Characteristics of operational and planned/proposed multiobject optical spectrographs with FOVs larger than 100 arcmin2.

Telescope Instrument o/p a Aperture s/f b FOV Nmax
[m] [deg2]

SDSS SDSS o 2.5 f 7.07 1000
WIYN HydraW o 3.5 f 0.78 100
Blanco HydraB o 3.9 f 0.35 138
AAT 2dF o 3.9 f 3.14 392
LAMOST LAMOST o 4.0 f 19.6 4000
WHT WYFFOS o 4.2 f 0.35 150
Magellan IMACS o 6.5 s 0.2 600
MMT Hectospec o 6.5 f 0.78 300
VLT VIMOS o 8.2 s 0.08 600
VLT FLAMES o 8.2 f 0.14 132
Mayall DESI p 3.9 f 7.07 5000
VISTA 4MOST p 4.1 f 7.07 3000
WHT WEAVE p 4.2 f 3.14 1000
VLT MOONS p 8.2 f 0.14 500
Subaru PFS p 8.3 f 1.33 2400
ngCFHT ngCFHT p 10.0 f 1.5 4000
GMT GMACS p 21.9 s 0.05 400

Notes.

(a)

(o)perational/(p)lanned/(p)roposed.

(b)

(s)lits/(f)ibres.

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