3D Spectroscopy in Astronomy / Edition 1

by Evencio Mediavilla, Santiago Arribas, Martin Roth, Jordi Cepa-Nogué, Francisco Sánchez

Overview

Simultaneously storing both spectral and spatial information, 3D spectroscopy offers a new way to tackle astrophysical problems, and opens up new lines of research. Since its inception in the eighties and early nineties, research in this field has grown enormously. Large telescopes all around the world are now equipped with integral field units, and two instruments of the future James Webb Space Telescope will have integral field spectroscopic capabilities. Nowadays, more effort is dedicated to refining techniques for reducing, analyzing and interpreting the data obtained with 3D spectrographs. Containing lectures from the seventeenth Winter School of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute, this book explores new 3D spectroscopy techniques and data. A broad and balanced presentation of research in this field, it introduces astronomers to a new generation of instruments, widening the appeal of integral field spectroscopy and helping it become a powerful tool in tackling astrophysical problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521895415
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/28/2010
Series:	Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics , #17
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

List of contributors viii

List of participants ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xii

List of abbreviations xiii

1 Introductory review and technical approaches Martin Roth 1

2 Observational procedures and data reduction James E.H. Turner 40

3 3D spectroscopic instrumentation Matthew A. Bershady 87

4 Analysis of 3D data Pierre Ferruit 126

5 Science motivation for integral field spectroscopy and Galactic studies Frank Eisenhauer 158

6 Extragalactic studies and future integral field spectroscopy science Luis Colina 200

7 Tutorials: How to handle 3D spectroscopy data Sebastián F. Sánchez Begoña García-Lorenzo Arlette Pécontal-Rousset 225

Editorial Reviews

'This new volume in the Canary Islands Winter School series continues the fine tradition of providing a thorough summary of an area of astronomy, at a level aimed squarely at graduate students … this volume will be seen as a milestone. It deserves a place in any graduate-level observational techniques and instrumentation class.' The Observatory

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