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Engineering and science highlights of the KAT-7 radio telescope

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 460:2 (2016) 1664-1679

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AR Foley, T Alberts, RP Armstrong, A Barta, EF Bauermeister, H Bester, S Blose, RS Booth, DH Botha, SJ Buchner, C Carignan, T Cheetham, K Cloete, G Coreejes, RC Crida, SD Cross, F Curtolo, A Dikgale, MS de Villiers, LJ du Toit, SWP Esterhuyse, B Fanaroff, RP Fender, M Fijalkowski, D Fourie, B Frank, D George, P Gibbs, S Goedhart, J Grobbelaar, SC Gumede, P Herselman, KM Hess, N Hoek, J Horrell, JL Jonas, JDB Jordaan, R Julie, F Kapp, P Kotzé, T Kusel, A Langman, R Lehmensiek, D Liebenberg, IJV Liebenberg, A Loots, RT Lord, DM Lucero, J Ludick, P Macfarlane, M Madlavana, L Magnus, C Magozore, JA Malan, JR Manley, L Marais, N Marais, SJ Marais, M Maree, A Martens, O Mokone, V Moss, S Mthembu, W New, GD Nicholson, PC van Niekerk, N Oozeer, SS Passmoor, A Peens-Hough, AB Pińska, P Prozesky, S Rajan, S Ratcliffe, R Renil, LL Richter, D Rosekrans, A Rust, AC Schröder, LC Schwardt, S Seranyane, M Serylak, DS Shepherd, R Siebrits, L Sofeya, R Spann, R Springbok, PS Swart, Venkatasubramani L Thondikulam, IP Theron, A Tiplady, O Toruvanda, S Tshongweni, L van den Heever, C van der Merwe, R van Rooyen, S Wakhaba, AL Walker, M Welz, L Williams, M Wolleben, PA Woudt, NJ Young, JTL Zwart
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High-velocity OH megamasers in IRAS 20100-4156: evidence for a supermassive black hole

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 460:2 (2016) 2180-2185

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L Harvey-Smith, JR Allison, JA Green, KW Bannister, A Chippendale, PG Edwards, I Heywood, AW Hotan, E Lenc, J Marvil, D McConnell, CJ Phillips, RJ Sault, P Serra, J Stevens, M Voronkov, M Whiting
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The SLUGGS survey: A new mask design to reconstruct the stellar populations and kinematics of both inner and outer galaxy regions

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia Cambridge University Press 33 (2016)

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Nicola Pastorello, Duncan A Forbes, Adriano Poci, Aaron J Romanowsky, Richard McDermid, Adebusola B Alabi, Jean P Brodie, Michele Cappellari, Vincenzo Pota, Caroline Foster

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Integral field unit spectrographs allow the 2D exploration of the kinematics and stellar populations of galaxies, although they are generally restricted to small fields-of-view. Using the large field-of-view of the DEIMOS multislit spectrograph on Keck and our Stellar Kinematics using Multiple Slits (SKiMS) technique, we are able to extract sky-subtracted stellar light spectra to large galactocentric radii. Here we present a new DEIMOS mask design named SuperSKiMS that explores large spatial scales without sacrificing high spatial sampling. We simulate a set of observations with such a mask design on the nearby galaxy NGC 1023, showing that the kinematic and metallicity measurements can reach radii where the galaxy surface brightness is several orders of magnitude fainter than the sky. Such a technique is also able to reproduce the kinematic and metallicity 2D distributions obtained from literature integral field spectroscopy in the innermost galaxy regions. In particular, we use the simulated NGC 1023 kinematics to model its total mass distribution to large radii, obtaining comparable results with those from published integral field unit observation. Finally, from new spectra of NGC 1023 we obtain stellar 2D kinematics and metallicity distributions that show good agreement with integral field spectroscopy results in the overlapping regions. In particular, we do not find a significant offset between our SKiMS and the ATLAS 3D stellar velocity dispersion at the same spatial locations.
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MeerLICHT and BlackGEM: custom-built telescopes to detect faint optical transients

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9906 (2016) 990664-990664-9

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Steven Bloemen, Paul Groot, Patrick Woudt, Marc Klein Wolt, Vanessa McBride, Gijs Nelemans, Elmar Körding, Margaretha L Pretorius, Ronald Roelfsema, Felix Bettonvil, Harry Balster, Roy Bakker, Peter Dolron, Arjen van Elteren, Eddy Elswijk, Arno Engels, Rob Fender, Marc Fokker, Menno de Haan, Klaas Hagoort, Jasper de Hoog, Rik ter Horst, Giel van der Kevie, Stanisław Kozłowski, Jan Kragt, Grzegorz Lech, Rudolf Le Poole, Dirk Lesman, Johan Morren, Ramon Navarro, Willem-Jelle Paalberends, Kerry Paterson, Rafal Pawłaszek, Wim Pessemier, Gert Raskin, Harrie Rutten, Bart Scheers, Menno Schuil, Piotr W Sybilski
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The LOFT mission concept: a status update

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9905 (2016) 99051r-99051r-20

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M Feroci, E Bozzo, S Brandt, M Hernanz, M van der Klis, L-P Liu, P Orleanski, M Pohl, A Santangelo, S Schanne, L Stella, T Takahashi, H Tamura, A Watts, J Wilms, S Zane, S-N Zhang, S Bhattacharyya, I Agudo, M Ahangarianabhari, C Albertus, M Alford, A Alpar, D Altamirano, L Alvarez, L Amati, C Amoros, N Andersson, A Antonelli, A Argan, R Artigue, B Artigues, J-L Atteia, P Azzarello, P Bakala, D Ballantyne, G Baldazzi, M Baldo, S Balman, M Barbera, C van Baren, D Barret, A Baykal, M Begelman, E Behar, O Behar, T Belloni, F Bernardini, G Bertuccio, S Bianchi, A Bianchini, P Binko, P Blay, F Bocchino, M Bode, P Bodin, I Bombaci, J-M Bonnet Bidaud, S Boutloukos, F Bouyjou, L Bradley, J Braga, MS Briggs, E Brown, M Buballa, N Bucciantini, L Burderi, M Burgay, M Bursa, C Budtz-Jørgensen, E Cackett, F Cadoux, P Cais, GA Caliandro, R Campana, S Campana, X Cao, F Capitanio, J Casares, P Casella, AJ Castro-Tirado, E Cavazzuti, Y Cavechi, S Celestin, P Cerda-Duran, D Chakrabarty, N Chamel, F Château, C Chen, Y Chen, Y Chen, J Chenevez, M Chernyakova, J Coker, R Cole, A Collura, M Coriat, R Cornelisse, L Costamante, A Cros, W Cui, A Cumming, G Cusumano, B Czerny, A D'Aì, F D'Ammando, V D'Elia, Z Dai, E Del Monte, A De Luca, D De Martino, JPC Dercksen, M De Pasquale, A De Rosa, M Del Santo, S Di Cosimo, N Degenaar, JW den Herder, S Diebold, T Di Salvo, Y Dong, I Donnarumma, V Doroshenko, G Doyle, SA Drake, M Durant, D Emmanoulopoulos, T Enoto, MH Erkut, P Esposito, Y Evangelista, A Fabian, M Falanga, Y Favre, C Feldman, R Fender, H Feng, V Ferrari, C Ferrigno, M Finger, MH Finger, GW Fraser, M Frericks, M Fullekrug, F Fuschino, M Gabler, DK Galloway, JL Gálvez Sanchez, P Gandhi, Z Gao, E Garcia-Berro, B Gendre, O Gevin, S Gezari, AB Giles, M Gilfanov, P Giommi, G Giovannini, M Giroletti, E Gogus, A Goldwurm, K Goluchová, D Götz, L Gou, C Gouiffes, P Grandi, M Grassi, J Greiner, V Grinberg, P Groot, M Gschwender, L Gualtieri, M Guedel, C Guidorzi, L Guy, D Haas, P Haensel, M Hailey, K Hamuguchi, F Hansen, DH Hartmann, CA Haswell, K Hebeler, A Heger, M Hempel, W Hermsen, J Homan, A Hornstrup, R Hudec, J Huovelin, D Huppenkothen, SC Inam, A Ingram, JJM In't Zand, G Israel, K Iwasawa, L Izzo, HM Jacobs, F Jetter, T Johannsen, PA Jenke, P Jonker, J Josè, P Kaaret, K Kalamkar, E Kalemci, G Kanbach, V Karas, D Karelin, D Kataria, L Keek, T Kennedy, D Klochkov, W Kluzniak, E Koerding, K Kokkotas, S Komossa, S Korpela, C Kouveliotou, AF Kowalski, I Kreykenbohm, LM Kuiper, D Kunneriath, A Kurkela, I Kuvvetli, F La Franca, C Labanti, D Lai, FK Lamb, C Lachaud, PP Laubert, F Lebrun, X Li, E Liang, O Limousin, D Lin, M Linares, D Linder, G Lodato, F Longo, F Lu, N Lund, TJ Maccarone, D Macera, S Maestre, S Mahmoodifar, D Maier, P Malcovati, J Malzac, C Malone, I Mandel, V Mangano, A Manousakis, M Marelli, J Margueron, M Marisaldi, SB Markoff, A Markowitz, A Marinucci, A Martindale, G Martínez, IM McHardy, G Medina-Tanco, M Mehdipour, A Melatos, M Mendez, S Mereghetti, S Migliari, R Mignani, M Michalska, T Mihara, MC Miller, JM Miller, T Mineo, G Miniutti, S Morsink, C Motch, S Motta, M Mouchet, G Mouret, J Mulačová, F Muleri, T Muñoz-Darias, I Negueruela, J Neilsen, T Neubert, AJ Norton, M Nowak, A Nucita, P O'Brien, M Oertel, PEH Olsen, M Orienti, M Orio, M Orlandini, JP Osborne, R Osten, F Ozel, L Pacciani, F Paerels, S Paltani, M Paolillo, I Papadakis, A Papitto, Z Paragi, JM Paredes, A Patruno, B Paul, F Pederiva, E Perinati, A Pellizzoni, AV Penacchioni, U Peretz, MA Perez, M Perez-Torres, BM Peterson, V Petracek, C Pittori, J Pons, J Portell, A Possenti, K Postnov, J Poutanen, M Prakash, I Prandoni, H Le Provost, D Psaltis, J Pye, J Qu, D Rambaud, P Ramon, G Ramsay, M Rapisarda, A Rashevski, I Rashevskaya, PS Ray, N Rea, S Reddy, P Reig, M Reina Aranda, R Remillard, C Reynolds, L Rezzolla, M Ribo, R de la Rie, A Riggio, A Rios, DH Rischke, P Rodríguez-Gil, J Rodriguez, R Rohlfs, P Romano, EMR Rossi, A Rozanska, A Rousseau, B Rudak, DM Russell, F Ryde, L Sabau-Graziati, T Sakamoto, G Sala, R Salvaterra, D Salvetti, A Sanna, J Sandberg, T Savolainen, S Scaringi, J Schaffner-Bielich, H Schatz, J Schee, C Schmid, M Serino, N Shakura, S Shore, JD Schnittman, R Schneider, A Schwenk, AD Schwope, A Sedrakian, J-Y Seyler, A Shearer, A Slowikowska, M Sims, A Smith, DM Smith, PJ Smith, M Sobolewska, V Sochora, P Soffitta, P Soleri, L Song, A Spencer, A Stamerra, B Stappers, R Staubert, AW Steiner, N Stergioulas, AL Stevens, G Stratta, TE Strohmayer, Z Stuchlik, S Suchy, V Suleimanov, F Tamburini, T Tauris, F Tavecchio, C Tenzer, FK Thielemann, A Tiengo, L Tolos, F Tombesi, J Tomsick, G Torok, JM Torrejon, DF Torres, E Torresi, A Tramacere, I Traulsen, A Trois, R Turolla, S Turriziani, S Typel, P Uter, P Uttley, A Vacchi, P Varniere, S Vaughan, S Vercellone, M Vietri, FH Vincent, V Vrba, D Walton, J Wang, Z Wang, S Watanabe, R Wawrzaszek, N Webb, N Weinberg, H Wende, P Wheatley, R Wijers, R Wijnands, M Wille, CA Wilson-Hodge, B Winter, SJ Walk, K Wood, SE Woosley, X Wu, R Xu, W Yu, F Yuan, W Yuan, Y Yuan, G Zampa, N Zampa, L Zampieri, L Zdunik, A Zdziarski, A Zech, B Zhang, C Zhang, S Zhang, M Zingale, F Zwart
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