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KMOS: Assembly, integration and testing of three 0.8-2.5 micron spectrographs

GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY III 7735 (2010) ARTN 773551

Authors:

Richard J Masters, Ian J Lewis, Ian AJ Tosh, Matthias Tecza, James Lynn, Robert EJ Watkins, Andrew Clack, Roger L Davies, Niranjan A Thatte, Mike Tacon, Rick Makin, Jon Temple, Alan Pearce
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Mapping Titan's HCN in the far infra-red: implications for photochemistry.

Faraday Discuss 147 (2010) 51-64

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NA Teanby, PGJ Irwin, R de Kok, CA Nixon

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Observations of Titan's far infra-red spectra by the Cassini orbiter's Composite InfraRed Spectrometer have been used to determine the latitude distribution of HCN at 1 mbar by fitting the HCN and CO rotational lines in the 18-60 cm(-1) (160-550 microm) spectral range. Results confirm the north polar HCN enrichment previously observed using mid-IR data and support the conclusion that Titan's nitrile species are significantly more enriched than hydrocarbons species with similar predicted photochemical lifetimes. This suggests Titan's photochemical cycle includes an additional sink for nitrogen bearing species. The abundance of CO was also determined, and had a mean value of 55 +/- 6 ppm at 20 mbar. However, it was not possible to reliably determine the CO latitude variation due to unconstrained temperatures in the north polar lower stratosphere.
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Martian atmosphere as observed by VIRTIS-M on Rosetta spacecraft

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 115 (2010) ARTN E04004

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A Coradini, D Grassi, F Capaccioni, G Filacchione, F Tosi, E Ammannito, MC De Sanctis, V Formisano, P Wolkenberg, G Rinaldi, G Arnold, MA Barucci, G Bellucci, J Benkhoff, JP Bibring, A Blanco, D Bockelee-Morvan, MT Capria, R Carlson, U Carsenty, P Cerroni, L Colangeli, M Combes, M Combi, J Crovisier, P Drossart, T Encrenaz, S Erard, C Federico, U Fink, S Fonti, W-H Ip, PGJ Irwin, R Jaumann, E Kuehrt, Y Langevin, G Magni, T McCord, V Mennella, S Mottola, G Neukum, V Orofino, P Palumbo, G Piccioni, H Rauer, B Schmitt, D Tiphene, FW Taylor, GP Tozzi
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Pixel Multiplexing for Simultaneous High Resolution High Speed Image Capture

BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL 98:3 (2010) 178A-178A

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Gil Bub, Matthias Tecza, Michiel Helmes, Peter Lee, Peter Kohl
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Recent progress on the KMOS multi-object integral-field spectrograph for ESO VLT

GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY III 7735 (2010) ARTN 773515

Authors:

Ray Sharples, Ralf Bender, Alex Agudo Berbel, Richard Bennett, Naidu Bezawada, Nicolas Bouche, David Bramall, Mark Casali, Michele Cirasuolo, Paul Clark, Mark Cliffe, Richard Davies, Roger Davies, Niv Drory, Marc Dubbeldam, Alasdair Fairley, Gert Finger, Reinhard Genzel, Reinhold Haefner, Achim Hess, Paul Jeffers, Ian Lewis, David Montgomery, John Murray, Bernard Muschielok, Natascha Foerster Schreiber, Jeff Pirard, Suzie Ramsey-Howat, Phil Rees, Josef Richter, David Robertson, Ian Robson, Stephen Rolt, Roberto Saglia, Joerg Schlichter, Matthias Tecza, Stephen Todd, Michael Wegner, Erich Wiezorrek
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