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The Gemini-North multi-object spectrograph: Performance in imaging, long-slit, and multi-object spectroscopic modes

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 116:819 (2004) 425-440

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IM Hook, I Jorgensen, JR Allington-Smith, RL Davies, N Metcalfe, RG Murowinski, D Crampton
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The M$_BH$ - L$_rad$ Relation for Flat-Spectrum Quasars

Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies (2004)

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MJ Jarvis, RJ McLure
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The PA alpha deficit in IRAS 20100-4156

(2004) 101-102

Authors:

JR Valdes, A Bressan, S Berta, A Franceschini, G Rodighiero, D Rigopoulou

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IRAS 20100-4156, being one of the most luminous local Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRCs), is one of the best templates for the analysis of high redshift dust enshrouded galaxies. We present the results of a NIR medium resolution spectroscopic study of this object, carried out with SOFI at ESO 3.5m NTT. Our detection of the Pa alpha line provides ideal constraints on the dust extinction, SFR and presence of an AGN.
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The accretion history of the universe with the SKA

NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS 48:11-12 (2004) 1173-1185

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MJ Jarvis, S Rawlings
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The second generation VLT instrument MUSE: Science drivers and instrument design

P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 5492 (2004) 1145-1149

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R Bacon, S Bauer, R Bower, S Cabrit, M Cappellari, M Carollo, FO Combes, R Davies, B Delabre, H Dekker, J Devriendt, S Djidel, M Duchateau, JP Dubois, E Emsellem, P Ferruit, M Franx, G Gilmore, B Guiderdoni, F Henault, N Hubin, B Jungwiert, A Kelz, M Le Louarn, I Lewis, JL Lizon, R Mc Dermid, S Morris, U Laux, O Le Fevre, B Lantz, S Lilly, J Lynn, L Pasquin, A Pecontal, PPD Popovic, A Quirrenbach, R Reiss, M Roth, M Steinmetz, R Stuik, L Wisotzki, T de Zeeuw

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The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph operating in the visible wavelength range. MUSE has a field of 1x1 arcmin(2) sampled at 0.20.2 arcsec(2) and is assisted by a ground layer adaptive optics system using four laser guide stars. The simultaneous spectral range is 0.465-0.93 mum, at a resolution of Rsimilar to3000. MUSE couples the discovery potential of a large imaging device to the measuring capabilities of a high-quality spectrograph, while taking advantage of the increased spatial resolution provided by adaptive optics. This makes MUSE a unique and tremendously powerful instrument for discovering and characterizing objects that lie beyond the reach of even the deepest imaging surveys. MUSE has also a high spatial resolution mode with 7.5x7.5 arcsec(2) field of view sampled at 25 milli-arcsec. In this mode MUSE should be able to get diffraction limited data-cube in the 0.6-1 mum wavelength range. Although MUSE design has been optimized for the study of galaxy formation and evolution, it has a wide range of possible applications; e.g. monitoring of outer planets atmosphere, young stellar objects environment, supermassive black holes and active nuclei in nearby galaxies or massive spectroscopic survey of stellar fields.
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