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The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions -: V.: The Mg-σ relation, age and metallicity

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 303:4 (1999) 813-825

Authors:

M Colless, D Burstein, RL Davies, RK McMahan, RP Saglia, G Wegner
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The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions - II. The spectroscopic data

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 305:2 (1999) 259-296

Authors:

C Wegner, M Colless, RP Saglia, RK McMahan, RL Davies, D Burstein, G Baggley
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The spectral appearance of primeval galaxies

ASTR SOC P 200 (1999) 299-308

Authors:

B Guiderdoni, JEG Devriendt

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The current and forthcoming observations of large samples of high-redshift galaxies selected according to various photometric and spectroscopic criteria can be interpreted in the context of galaxy formation, by means of models of evolving spectral energy distributions (SEDs). We hereafter present STARDUST which gives synthetic SEDs from the far UV to the submm wavelength range. These SEDs are designed to be implemented into semi-analytic models of galaxy formation.
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The GEMINI multiobject spectrographs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 3355 (1998) 188-195

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R Murowinski, T Bond, D Crampton, T Davidge, JM Fletcher, B Leckie, C Morbey, S Roberts, L Saddlemyer, J Sebesta, J Stilburn, K Szeto, JR Allington-Smith, R Content, RL Davies, G Dodsworth, R Haynes, D Robinson, D Robertson, J Webster, D Lee, S Beard, C Dickson, D Kelly, R Bennet, M Ellis, P Hastings, P Williams

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As the only two optical instruments appearing in its first fleet of instrumentation, the GEMINI MultiObject Spectrograph (GMOS) are indeed being developed as workhorse instruments. One GMOS will be located at each of the GEMINI telescopes to perform: a) exquisite direct imaging, b) 5.5 arcminute longslit spectroscopy, c) up to 600 object multislit spectroscopy, and d) about 2000 element integral field spectroscopy. The GMOSs are the only GEMINI instrumentation duplicated at both telescopes. The UK and Canadian GMOS team successfully completed their critical design review in February 1997. They are now well into the fabrication phase, and will soon approach integration of the first instrument. The first GMOS is scheduled to be delivered to Mauna Kea in the fall of'99 and the second to Cerro Pachon one year later. In this paper, we will look at how a few of the more interesting details of the final GMOS design help meet its demanding scientific requirements. These include its transmissive optical design and mask handling mechanisms. We will also discuss our plans for the mask handling process in GEMINI'S queue scheduled environment, from the taking of direct images through to the use of masks on the telescope. Finally, we present the status of fabrication and integration work to date.
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The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey

ArXiv astro-ph/9810127 (1998)

Authors:

SM Croom, T Shanks, BJ Boyle, RJ Smith, L Miller, NS Loaring

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We present preliminary results from the 2-degree Field (2dF) QSO Redshift Survey currently under way at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This survey aims to determine the redshifts of >25000 QSOs over a redshift range of 0.3
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