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Ionization of large-scale absorbing haloes and feedback events from high-redshift radio galaxies

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 459:1 (2006) 31-42

Authors:

L Binette, RJ Wilman, M Villar-Martin, RAE Fosbury, MJ Jarvis, HJA Rottgering
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On the evolution of the black-hole:spheroid mass ratio

NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS 50:9-10 (2006) 782-785

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RJ McLure, MJ Jarvis, TA Targett, JS Dunlop, PN Best
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Origin of the counterrotating gas in NGC 1596

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 370:3 (2006) 1565-1572

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Aeree Chung, Barbel Koribalski, Martin Bureau, JH van Gorkom
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Probing the low-luminosity X-ray luminosity function in normal elliptical galaxies

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 652:2 (2006) 1090-1096

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D-W Kim, G Fabbiano, V Kalogera, AR King, S Pellegrini, G Trinchieri, SE Zepf, A Zezas, L Angelini, RL Davies, JS Gallagher
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The Oxford SWIFT integral field spectrograph - art. no. 62693L

P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 6269 (2006) L2693-L2693

Authors:

N Thatte, M Tecza, F Clarke, T Goodsall, J Lynn, D Freeman, RL Davies

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We present the design of the Oxford SWIFT integral field spectrograph, a dedicated I and z band instrument (0.65 mu m - 1.0 mu m at R similar to 4000), designed to be used in conjunction with the Palomar laser guide star adaptive optics system (PALAO, and its planned upgrade PALM-3000). It builds on two recent developments (i) the improved ability of second generation adaptive optics systems to correct for atmospheric turbulence at wavelengths <= 1 mu m, and (ii) the availability of CCD array detectors with high quantum efficiency at very red wavelengths (close to the silicon band edge). Combining these with a state-of-the-art integral field unit design using an all-glass image slicer, SWIFT's design provides very high throughput and low scattered light.SWIFT simultaneously provides spectra of similar to 4000 spatial elements, arranged in a rectangular field-of-view of 44 x 89 pixels. It has three on-the-fly selectable pixel scales of 0."24, 0."16 and 0."08. First light is expected in spring 2008.
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