The SAURON project. I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph
Astrophysics
2009-11-06 v1
Abstract
A new integral-field spectrograph, SAURON, is described. It is based on the Tiger principle, and uses a lenslet array. SAURON has a large field of view and high throughput, and allows simultaneous sky subtraction. Its design is optimized for studies of the stellar kinematics, gas kinematics, and line-strength distributions of nearby early-type galaxies. The instrument design and specifications are described, as well as the extensive analysis software which was developed to obtain fully calibrated spectra, and the associated kinematic and line-strength measurements. A companion paper reports on the first results obtained with SAURON on the William Herschel Telescope.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103451,
title = {The SAURON project. I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph},
author = {R. Bacon and Y. Copin and G. Monnet and Bryan W. Miller and J. R. Allington-Smith and M. Bureau and C. Marcella Carollo and Roger L. Davies and Eric Emsellem and Harald Kuntschner and Reynier F. Peletier and E. K. Verolme and P. Tim de Zeeuw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103451},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 13 figures. accepted for publication in MNRAS