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
The Atlas3D project -- XIII. Mass and morphology of HI in early-type galaxies as a function of environment
(2011)
Oxford SWIFT integral field spectrograph and multiwavelength observations of the Eagle galaxy at z= 0.77
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 417:4 (2011) 2882-2890