The Atlas3D Project -- XI. Dense molecular gas properties of CO-luminous early-type galaxies
(2011)
THE zCOSMOS–SINFONI PROJECT. I. SAMPLE SELECTION AND NATURAL-SEEING OBSERVATIONS**Based on observations obtained at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile (ESO Program IDs 079.A-0341, 081.A-0672, and 183.A-0781). Also based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, and with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 743:1 (2011) 86
Astrophysics: Monster black holes.
Nature 480:7376 (2011) 187-188
A project for an infrared synoptic survey from Antarctica with the Polar Large Telescope (PLT)
SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2011)
Abstract:
The Polar Large Telescope (PLT) aims at performing a new generation of astronomical Infrared Synoptic Survey from Antarctica (ISSA). It would carry out for the first time large scale periodic imaging surveys at ˜ 0.3 arcsec angular resolution in the short thermal infrared (2-5 micron) range benefiting from the extremely dry, cold, and stable polar atmosphere. The PLT consists of a 2.5 m class telescope equipped with a 250-Mpixel infrared camera. The survey would produce diffraction limited images at 2 micron covering a total of ˜ 5000 square degrees, explore the time domain from seconds to years down to mab =25.5 in Kd, generate alerts of transients and react quickly to alerts from other ground based or space borne facilities.Constraining the role of star cluster mergers in nuclear cluster formation: simulations confront integral-field data
MON NOT R ASTRON SOC 418 (2011) 2697-2714