The STIS Parallel Survey: Introduction and First Results
Abstract
The installation of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allows for the first time two-dimensional optical and ultraviolet slitless spectroscopy of faint objects from space. The STIS Parallel Survey (SPS) routinely obtains broad band images and slitless spectra of random fields in parallel with HST observations using other instruments. The SPS is designed to study a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the rate of star formation in galaxies at intermediate to high redshift through the detection of emission-line galaxies. We present the first results of the SPS, which demonstrate the capability of STIS slitless spectroscopy to detect and identify high-redshift galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9710357,
title = {The STIS Parallel Survey: Introduction and First Results},
author = {J. P. Gardner and R. S. Hill and S. A. Baum and N. R. Collins and H. C. Ferguson and R. A. E. Fosbury and R. L. Gilliland and R. F. Green and T. R. Gull and S. R. Heap and D. J. Lindler and E. M. Malumuth and A. Micol and N. Pirzkal and J. L. Sandoval and E. Tolstoy and J. R. Walsh and B. E. Woodgate},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9710357},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, Latex, 3 enclosed Postscript figures, aaspp4.sty, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters HST Second Servicing Mission special issue