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The Small Satellites of Pluto as Observed by New Horizons

(2016)

Authors:

HA Weaver, MW Buie, BJ Buratti, WM Grundy, TR Lauer, CB Olkin, AH Parker, SB Porter, MR Showalter, JR Spencer, SA Stern, AJ Verbiscer, WB McKinnon, JM Moore, SJ Robbins, P Schenk, KN Singer, OS Barnouin, AF Cheng, CM Ernst, CM Lisse, DE Jennings, AW Lunsford, DC Reuter, DP Hamilton, DE Kaufmann, K Ennico, LA Young, RA Beyer, RP Binzel, VJ Bray, AL Chaikin, JC Cook, DP Cruikshank, CM Dalle Ore, AM Earle, GR Gladstone, CJA Howett, IR Linscott, F Nimmo, J Wm Parker, S Philippe, S Protopapa, HJ Reitsema, B Schmitt, T Stryk, ME Summers, CCC Tsang, HHB Throop, OL White, AM Zangari
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The Red Edge Problem in asteroid band parameter analysis

Meteoritics and Planetary Science Wiley 51:4 (2016) 806-817

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Sean S Lindsay, Tasha L Dunn, Joshua P Emery, Neil E Bowles
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Inflight Radiometric Calibration of New Horizons' Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)

(2016)

Authors:

CJA Howett, AH Parker, CB Olkin, DC Reuter, K Ennico, WM Grundy, AL Graps, KP Harrison, HB Throop, MW Buie, JR Lovering, SB Porter, HA Weaver, LA Young, SA Stern, RA Beyer, RP Binzell, BJ Buratti, AF Cheng, JC Cook, DP Cruikshank, CM Dalle Ore, AM Earle, DE Jennings, IR Linscott, AW Lunsford, J Wm Parker, S Phillippe, S Protopapa, E Quirico, PM Schenk, B Schmitt, KN Singer, JR Spencer, JA Stansberry, CCC Tsang, GE Weigle, AJ Verbiscer
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New temperature and pressure retrieval algorithm for high-resolution infrared solar occultation spectroscopy: analysis and validation against ACE-FTS and COSMIC

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Copernicus Publications 9:3 (2016) 1063-1082

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Kevin S Olsen, Geoffrey C Toon, Chris D Boone, Kimberly Strong
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Simulated stellar kinematics studies of high-redshift galaxies with the HARMONI Integral Field Spectrograph

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 458:3 (2016) 2405-2422

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S Kendrew, S Zieleniewski, RCW Houghton, Niranjan Thatte, J Devriendt, M Tecza, F Clarke, K O'Brien, B Häussler

Abstract:

We present a study into the capabilities of integrated and spatially resolved integral field spectroscopy of galaxies at z = 2–4 with the future HARMONI spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) using the simulation pipeline, HSIM. We focus particularly on the instrument's capabilities in stellar absorption line integral field spectroscopy, which will allow us to study the stellar kinematics and stellar population characteristics. Such measurements for star-forming and passive galaxies around the peak star formation era will provide a critical insight into the star formation, quenching and mass assembly history of high-z, and thus present-day galaxies. First, we perform a signal-to-noise study for passive galaxies at a range of stellar masses for z = 2–4, assuming different light profiles; for this population, we estimate that integrated stellar absorption line spectroscopy with HARMONI will be limited to galaxies with M* ≳ 1010.7 M⊙. Secondly, we use HSIM to perform a mock observation of a typical star-forming 1010 M⊙ galaxy at z = 3 generated from the high-resolution cosmological simulation NUTFB. We demonstrate that the input stellar kinematics of the simulated galaxy can be accurately recovered from the integrated spectrum in a 15-h observation, using common analysis tools. Whilst spatially resolved spectroscopy is likely to remain out of reach for this particular galaxy, we estimate HARMONI's performance limits in this regime from our findings. This study demonstrates how instrument simulators such as HSIM can be used to quantify instrument performance and study observational biases on kinematics retrieval; and shows the potential of making observational predictions from cosmological simulation output data.
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