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Theoretical stellar libraries have been increasingly used to overcome limitations of empirical libraries, e.g. by exploring atmospheric parameter spaces not well represented in the latter. This work presents a new theoretical library which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 P. R. T. Coelho

The Large Early Galaxy Census (LEGA-C) is a Public Spectroscopic Survey of $\sim3200$ $K$-band selected galaxies at redshifts $z=0.6-1.0$ with stellar masses M_star > 1e10M_sun, conducted with VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The survey…

We present medium resolution (R = 5000-6000) spectra in the near-infrared band, 1.4-1.8 microns, for template stars in G, K, and M types observed by the echelle spectrometer, IRCS, at the SUBARU 8.2 m telescope. The identification of lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-01 Huynh Anh N. Le , Wonseok Kang , Soojong Pak , Myungshin Im , Jeong-Eun Lee , Luis C. Ho , Tae-Soo Pyo , Daniel T. Jaffe

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) provides a structural database comprising 10,095 well resolved galaxies drawn from a 37.5 sq. deg region of sky, with $B_{\tiny \sc mgc} < 20.0$ mag and 96.1 per cent spectroscopic completeness. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon P. Driver , Jochen Liske , Alister W. Graham

We have used the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to map the Coma cluster of galaxies at 250-500 MHz and 1050-1450 MHz bands. These 6.26 arcsec and 2.18 arcsec resolutions observations allow detailed radio structures to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-01 Dharam V. Lal

The main interest of the Science Team for the exploitation of the MEGARA instrument at the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC hereafter) is devoted to the study of nearby galaxies, with focus on the research of the history of star…

\textsc{GALATEA} (the \emph{Galactic Archaeology and Local-group Astrophysics Telescope for Extended Areas}) is a concept for a dedicated 15-m, wide-field, 10,000-fibre spectroscopic survey facility in the northern hemisphere, optimized for…

The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4-50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. F. Bloser , R. Andritschke , G. Kanbach , V. Schoenfelder , F. Schopper , A. Zoglauer

We present the innovative macro-slicer optical and opto-mechanical designs for the third-generation Mid-resolution InfraReD Astronomical Spectrograph (MIRADAS) instrument for the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in the 1-2.5 $\mu$m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 R Deno Stelter , Stephen S Eikenberry

The integrated spectra of stellar systems contain a wealth of information, and its analysis can reveal fundamental parameters such as metallicity, age and star formation history. Widely used methods to analyze these spectra are based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Lucimara P. Martins , Círia Lima-Dias , Paula R. T. Coelho , Tatiana F. Laganá

One way to constrain the evolutionary histories of galaxies is to analyse their stellar populations. In the local Universe, our understanding of the stellar population properties of galaxies has traditionally relied on the study of optical…

Libraries of stellar spectra find many uses in astrophysics, from photometric calibration to stellar population synthesis. We present low resolution spectra of 40 stars from 0.2 micrometers (ultraviolet) to 1.0 micrometers (near infrared)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Islam Khan , Guy Worthey

We have created a digital spectral library, using low resolution optical spectra, of photometric and spectral standard stars. The data were acquired using the Cassegrain Spectrograph installed on the 1.9m Radcliffe telescope at the South…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 David James

New instrumental capabilities and the wealth of astrophysical information extractable from the near-infrared wavelength region have led to a growing interest in the field of high resolution spectroscopy at 1-5 mu. We aim to provide a…

We used integrated-light medium-resolution spectra of six Galactic globular clusters and model stellar atmospheres to carry out population synthesis and to derive chemical composition and age of the clusters. We used medium-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 D. A. Khamidullina , M. E. Sharina , V. V. Shimansky , E. Davoust

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) is a 37.5 deg^2, medium-deep, B-band imaging survey along the celestial equator, taken with the Wide Field Camera on the Isaac Newton Telescope. The survey region is contained within the regions of both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Liske , D. J. Lemon , S. P. Driver , N. J. G. Cross , W. J. Couch

We present STELIB, a new spectroscopic stellar library, available at http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/stelib . STELIB consists of an homogeneous library of 249 stellar spectra in the visible range (3200 to 9500A), with an intermediate spectral…

The SEGUE survey obtained 240,000 moderate resolution (R = 1800) spectra from 3900 - 9000 Angstroms of fainter Milky Way stars (14.0 < g < 20.3) of a wide variety of spectral types, both main sequence and evolved objects, with the goal of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-27 II SEGUE Collaboration , Brian Yanny , Constance Rockosi , Heidi Jo Newberg , Gillian R. Knapp

The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is a large empirical stellar library used as a benchmark for the development of stellar population models. The inclusion of $\alpha$-elements abundances is crucial to disentangling the chemical evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 Pablo Santos-Peral , Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez , Alexandre Vazdekis , Pedro A. Palicio

We present the Gallery of Planetary Nebula Spectra now available at http://oit.williams.edu/nebulae The website offers high-quality, moderate resolution (~7-10 A FWHM) spectra of 128 Galactic planetary nebulae from 3600-9600 A, obtained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karen B. Kwitter , Richard B. C. Henry