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Cores or cusps in elliptical galaxies: Luminosity or environment?

CENTRAL REGIONS OF THE GALAXY AND GALAXIES (1998) 385-386

Authors:

RS De Jong, RL Davies, RF Minchin, JR Lucey, J Steel

Deep Surveys and Cosmology

Highlights of Astronomy Cambridge University Press (CUP) 11:2 (1998) 1122-1124

Authors:

SJ Oliver, S Sergeant, P Goldschmidt, RG Mann, M Rowan-Robinson, N Eaton, A Efsathiou, C Gruppioni, TJ Sumner, B Mobasher, A Verma, L Danese, E Egami, D Elbaz, A Franceschini, I Gonzalez-Serrano, M Kontizas, A Lawrence, R Mcmahon, HU N酶rgaard-Nielsen, I P茅rez-Fournon

Deep Surveys and Cosmology

Chapter in Highlights of Astronomy, Springer Nature (1998) 1122-1124

Authors:

SJ Oliver, S Sergeant, P Goldschmidt, RG Mann, M Rowan-Robinson, N Eaton, A Efsathiou, C Gruppioni, TJ Sumner, B Mobasher, A Verma, L Danese, E Egami, D Elbaz, A Franceschini, I Gonzalez-Serrano, M Kontizas, A Lawrence, R Mcmahon, HU N酶rgaard-Nielsen, I P茅rez-Fournon

Integral field and multi-object spectroscopy with NGST

34TH LIEGE INTERNATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM - THE NEXT GENERATION SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE DRIVERS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES 429 (1998) 141-146

Authors:

RL Davies, J Allington-Smith, N Metcalfe, T Shanks

SINFONI: A near infrared AO assisted integral field spectrometer for the VLT

P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 3353 (1998) 704-715

Authors:

N Thatte, M Tecza, F Eisenhauer, S Mengel, A Krabbe, S Pak, R Genzel, D Bonaccini, E Emsellem, F Rigaut, B Delabre, G Monnet

Abstract:

SINFONI, the SINgle Faint Object Near-infrared Investigation, is an instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), designed to provide spectroscopy at the telescope diffraction limit in the near-infrared. This unique capability is achieved by combining two state-of-the-art developments, an integral field spectrometer (SPIFFI) and a curvature sensor based adaptive optics system (MACAO). SINFONI is a collaborative effort by the Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).SINFONI will operate at the Cassegrain focus of Unit Telescope 1 (UT1) of the VLT, in conjunction with a Laser Guide Star (LGS) for almost complete sky coverage. It will provide integral field data cubes, with a hexagonal field of view ranging from similar to 1 " to 8 ", with corresponding pixel sizes of 0." 03 to 0." 25. The field of view contains 1024 spatial pixels, with similar to 100% filling factor in the focal plane. Spectra are obtained for each of the 1024 pixels. Spectral resolutions of R=2000 to R=4500 will be available, covering the J, H and K spectral windows. The high spectral resolution made will allow software OH suppression in the J and H bands. The detector is a 1024(2) HgCdTe HAWAII array from Rockwell. Spectroscopy of faint objects (m(K) < 21 and m(H) < 22) will be easily feasible.