We have been undertaking a programme on the Gemini 8-m telescopes to demonstrate the power of integral field spectroscopy, using the optical GMOS spectrograph, and the new CIRPASS instrument in the near-infrared. Here we present some preliminary results from 3D spectroscopy of extra-galactic objects, mapping the emission lines in a 3CR radio galaxy and in a gravitationally lensed arc, exploring dark matter sub-structure through observations of an Einstein Cross gravitational lens, and the star formation time-scales of young massive clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 1140.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401002,
title = {Extragalactic Integral Field Spectroscopy on the Gemini Telescopes},
author = {Andrew Bunker and Joanna Smith and Ian Parry and Rob Sharp and Andrew Dean and Gerry Gilmore and Richard Bower and Mark Swinbank and Roger Davies and R. Ben Metcalf and Richard de Grijs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401002},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
From proceedings of Euro3D Spectroscopy annual RTN network meeting (ed. J. Walsh). 4 pages, accepted for publication in Astron. Nachr