Consortium

The Time Domain Telescope is being developed by an international consortium of astronomers, engineers and institutes, preparing a proposal to ESO’s Expanding Horizons call.

How the project is organised

GovernanceTDT Steering Group

Works with

  • ESO
  • National funding agencies

FacilityTDT Observatory

Organisation of the TDT project. The Steering Group leads the project and works with ESO and national funding agencies; the TDT Observatory is organised into five work areas.

The TDT team

132 team members in 18 countries have joined the TDT community so far. Select a pin to see how many are in each country.

  • Israel: 4 team members
  • United States: 2 team members
  • South Africa: 2 team members
  • Chile: 2 team members
  • Europe: 122 team members, shown on the enlarged map
World. The area inside the dashed outline is shown enlarged in the Europe map.
  • United Kingdom: 27 team members
  • Italy: 27 team members
  • Germany: 19 team members
  • Spain: 12 team members
  • Netherlands: 8 team members
  • France: 6 team members
  • Denmark: 5 team members
  • Belgium: 4 team members
  • Ireland: 4 team members
  • Finland: 3 team members
  • Czech Republic: 3 team members
  • Sweden: 2 team members
  • Luxembourg: 1 team member
  • Portugal: 1 team member
Europe

Astronomers by country

  • Italy 27
  • United Kingdom 27
  • Germany 19
  • Spain 12
  • Netherlands 8
  • France 6
  • Denmark 5
  • Belgium 4
  • Ireland 4
  • Israel 4
  • Czech Republic 3
  • Finland 3
  • Chile 2
  • South Africa 2
  • Sweden 2
  • United States 2
  • Luxembourg 1
  • Portugal 1

By country of each team member’s institute. Join the TDT working groups

Five work areas

Science
The four science themes, synergies with other facilities, and the exposure time calculator.
Telescope Array
The unit telescope, adaptive optics, fibre coupling and calibration.
Instrument Cluster
Spectrographs (including MKID and PRV spectrographs), detectors and calibration.
Operations
Agentic scheduling, dataflow and pipelines, calibration, maintainability and sustainability.
Industry & Delivery
Manufacturability, industrial engagement, and cost and schedule.

Institutes on the Steering Group

  • Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom
  • Radboud UniversityNetherlands
  • Universität HamburgGermany
  • University of WarwickUnited Kingdom
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik (DZA)Germany

The full list of consortium institutes will be published here.