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On the detectability of trace chemical species in the martian atmosphere using gas correlation filter radiometry

Icarus Elsevier 260 (2015) 103-127

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JA Sinclair, PGJ Irwin, SB Calcutt, EL Wilson
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The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

(2015)

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SA Stern, F Bagenal, K Ennico, GR Gladstone, WM Grundy, WB McKinnon, JM Moore, CB Olkin, JR Spencer, HA Weaver, LA Young, T Andert, J Andrews, M Banks, B Bauer, J Bauman, OS Barnouin, P Bedini, K Beisser, RA Beyer, S Bhaskaran, RP Binzel, E Birath, M Bird, DJ Bogan, A Bowman, VJ Bray, M Brozovic, C Bryan, MR Buckley, MW Buie, BJ Buratti, SS Bushman, A Calloway, B Carcich, AF Cheng, S Conard, CA Conrad, JC Cook, DP Cruikshank, OS Custodio, CM Dalle Ore, C Deboy, ZJB Dischner, P Dumont, AM Earle, HA Elliott, J Ercol, CM Ernst, T Finley, SH Flanigan, G Fountain, MJ Freeze, T Greathouse, JL Green, Y Guo, M Hahn, DP Hamilton, SA Hamilton, J Hanley, A Harch, HM Hart, CB Hersman, A Hill, ME Hill, DP Hinson, ME Holdridge, M Horanyi, AD Howard, CJA Howett, C Jackman, RA Jacobson, DE Jennings, JA Kammer, HK Kang, DE Kaufmann, P Kollmann, SM Krimigis, D Kusnierkiewicz, TR Lauer, JE Lee, KL Lindstrom, IR Linscott, CM Lisse, AW Lunsford, VA Mallder, N Martin, DJ McComas, RL McNutt, D Mehoke, T Mehoke, ED Melin, M Mutchler, D Nelson, F Nimmo, JI Nunez, A Ocampo, WM Owen, M Paetzold, B Page, AH Parker, JW Parker, F Pelletier, J Peterson, N Pinkine, M Piquette, SB Porter, S Protopapa, J Redfern, HJ Reitsema, DC Reuter, JH Roberts, SJ Robbins, G Rogers, D Rose, K Runyon, KD Retherford, MG Ryschkewitsch, P Schenk, R Schindhelm, B Sepan, MR Showalter, KN Singer, M Soluri, D Stanbridge, AJ Steffl, DF Strobel, T Stryk, ME Summers, JR Szalay, M Tapley, A Taylor, H Taylor, HB Throop, CCC Tsang, GL Tyler, OM Umurhan, AJ Verbiscer, MH Versteeg, M Vincent, R Webbert, S Weidner, GE Weigle, OL White, K Whittenburg, BG Williams, K Williams, S Williams, WW Woods, AM Zangari, E Zirnstein
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The Subaru–XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS). VIII. Multi-wavelength identification, optical/NIR spectroscopic properties, and photometric redshifts of X-ray sources†

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Oxford University Press (OUP) 67:5 (2015) 82

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Masayuki Akiyama, Yoshihiro Ueda, Mike G Watson, Hisanori Furusawa, Tadafumi Takata, Chris Simpson, Tomoki Morokuma, Toru Yamada, Kouji Ohta, Fumihide Iwamuro, Kiyoto Yabe, Naoyuki Tamura, Yuuki Moritani, Naruhisa Takato, Masahiko Kimura, Toshinori Maihara, Gavin Dalton, Ian Lewis, Hanshin Lee, Emma Curtis-Lake, Edward Macaulay, Frazer Clarke, John D Silverman, Scott Croom, Masami Ouchi, Hitoshi Hanami, Jorge Díaz Tello, Tomohiro Yoshikawa, Naofumi Fujishiro, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi
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The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons.

Science (New York, N.Y.) 350:6258 (2015) aad1815

Authors:

SA Stern, F Bagenal, K Ennico, GR Gladstone, WM Grundy, WB McKinnon, JM Moore, CB Olkin, JR Spencer, HA Weaver, LA Young, T Andert, J Andrews, M Banks, B Bauer, J Bauman, OS Barnouin, P Bedini, K Beisser, RA Beyer, S Bhaskaran, RP Binzel, E Birath, M Bird, DJ Bogan, A Bowman, VJ Bray, M Brozovic, C Bryan, MR Buckley, MW Buie, BJ Buratti, SS Bushman, A Calloway, B Carcich, AF Cheng, S Conard, CA Conrad, JC Cook, DP Cruikshank, OS Custodio, CM Dalle Ore, C Deboy, ZJB Dischner, P Dumont, AM Earle, HA Elliott, J Ercol, CM Ernst, T Finley, SH Flanigan, G Fountain, MJ Freeze, T Greathouse, JL Green, Y Guo, M Hahn, DP Hamilton, SA Hamilton, J Hanley, A Harch, HM Hart, CB Hersman, A Hill, ME Hill, DP Hinson, ME Holdridge, M Horanyi, AD Howard, CJA Howett, C Jackman, RA Jacobson, DE Jennings, JA Kammer, HK Kang, DE Kaufmann, P Kollmann, SM Krimigis, D Kusnierkiewicz, TR Lauer, JE Lee, KL Lindstrom, IR Linscott, CM Lisse, AW Lunsford, VA Mallder, N Martin, DJ McComas, RL McNutt, D Mehoke, T Mehoke, ED Melin, M Mutchler, D Nelson, F Nimmo, JI Nunez, A Ocampo, WM Owen, M Paetzold, B Page, AH Parker, JW Parker, F Pelletier, J Peterson, N Pinkine, M Piquette, SB Porter, S Protopapa, J Redfern, HJ Reitsema, DC Reuter, JH Roberts, SJ Robbins, G Rogers, D Rose, K Runyon, KD Retherford, MG Ryschkewitsch, P Schenk, E Schindhelm, B Sepan, MR Showalter, KN Singer, M Soluri, D Stanbridge, AJ Steffl, DF Strobel, T Stryk, ME Summers, JR Szalay, M Tapley, A Taylor, H Taylor, HB Throop, CCC Tsang, GL Tyler, OM Umurhan, AJ Verbiscer, MH Versteeg, M Vincent, R Webbert, S Weidner, GE Weigle, OL White, K Whittenburg, BG Williams, K Williams, S Williams, WW Woods, AM Zangari, E Zirnstein

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The Pluto system was recently explored by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, making closest approach on 14 July 2015. Pluto's surface displays diverse landforms, terrain ages, albedos, colors, and composition gradients. Evidence is found for a water-ice crust, geologically young surface units, surface ice convection, wind streaks, volatile transport, and glacial flow. Pluto's atmosphere is highly extended, with trace hydrocarbons, a global haze layer, and a surface pressure near 10 microbars. Pluto's diverse surface geology and long-term activity raise fundamental questions about how small planets remain active many billions of years after formation. Pluto's large moon Charon displays tectonics and evidence for a heterogeneous crustal composition; its north pole displays puzzling dark terrain. Small satellites Hydra and Nix have higher albedos than expected.
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HSIM: a simulation pipeline for the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European ELT

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 453:4 (2015) 3754-3765

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Simon Zieleniewski, Niranjan Thatte, Sarah Kendrew, Ryan CW Houghton, A Mark Swinbank, Matthias Tecza, Fraser Clarke, Thierry Fusco

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We present HSIM: a dedicated pipeline for simulating observations with the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European Extremely Large Telescope. HSIM takes high spectral and spatial resolution input data-cubes, encoding physical descriptions of astrophysical sources, and generates mock observed data-cubes. The simulations incorporate detailed models of the sky, telescope and instrument to produce realistic mock data. Further, we employ a new method of incorporating the strongly wavelength dependent adaptive optics point spread functions. HSIM provides a step beyond traditional exposure time calculators and allows us to both predict the feasibility of a given observing programme with HARMONI, as well as perform instrument design trade-offs. In this paper we concentrate on quantitative measures of the feasibility of planned observations. We give a detailed description of HSIM and present two studies: estimates of point source sensitivities along with simulations of star-forming emission-line galaxies at $z\sim 2-3$. We show that HARMONI will provide exquisite resolved spectroscopy of these objects on sub-kpc scales, probing and deriving properties of individual star-forming regions.
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