Following the recommendations of the Public Survey Panel (PSP) and Observing Programmes Commitee (OPC), ESO has selected two public surveys to be conducted with KMOS in the next three years. These two ESO KMOS public surveys are: 

Galactic survey

The KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey

PIs Matias Gomez, (Universidad Andres Bello - Santiago, Chile)  & Francisco Nogueras-Lara (ESO Garching - Germany)

The KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey aims to build up on two very successful observational efforts: the wide-area, multi-epoch VVV/VVVX near-infrared survey and the high-resolution GALACTICNUCLEUS imaging of the innermost regions of the Galaxy. This is a diverse multipurpose survey aiming to serve the wider astronomical community. Its scientific objectives are to characterise eruptive young stellar objects and their environments across the southern disc, identify and measure the physical parameters for Galactic globular clusters hidden by extinction, confirm and measure nearby free-floating planets and brown dwarfs, characterise numerous young massive star clusters across the Galactic disc, classify nearby and distant galaxies and galaxy clusters in the zone of avoidance, revealing the large scale structure in the background and to conduct the first high-completeness spectroscopic study of the Galactic centre, revealing its star formation history, dynamics and structure.

Extra-galactic survey

KateMOSS (KMOS ATlas & Environment MultiObject Spectroscopic Survey)

PI Paola Popesso (ESO Garching - Germany)

KateMOSS (KMOS ATlas & Environment MultiObject Spectroscopic Survey) is a transformative public survey that will expand the ESO KMOS Science Archive Facility (SAF) with deeper and new observations. This ambitious IFU campaign will target ~900 galaxies with M*>10^10 M_sun across three key epochs at z~0.75, z~1.6, and z~2.3, which span the decline, peak, and early rise of cosmic star formation rate density. KateMOSS is designed to answer fundamental questions in galaxy evolution: When and where do galaxies quench their star formation (SF)? What roles do mass, AGN feedback, and environment play in regulating SF? How does the cosmic web shape these processes across cosmic time? KateMOSS will answer these overarching questions by sampling the full galaxy evolution parameter space—including stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), nuclear activity, and position within the Cosmic Web. It will deliver deep spatially resolved maps of dust-corrected SFR, metallicity, and ionized gas kinematics out to galaxy outskirts. By fully charting the galaxy's journey across both cosmic time and environment, KateMOSS will enable the broadest possible range of science for the community, standing as a true legacy resource for extragalactic astronomy.

If there are questions regarding the KMOS public survey projects, please submit any enquire to https://support.eso.org