SCUBA gals, starbursts, AGN) ... Old Stellar Populations at Early Epochs Ages and metallicities of stellar ... Old stellar populations: determine age ...
... hierarchical models do NOT match bulges: PLE better. Cimatti etal, VLT ... Infrared selection is the next big step. building on Denis, 2MASS, VISTA, UKIDSS. ...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG And QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. Clustering techniques ... `Bump' in the 2 Point Correlation Function at ~100 h-1 Mpc. Due to ``baryon acoustic oscillations' ...
Tom Shanks, Phil Outram, Jose Cruz da Angela, Bill Frith and Nic Ross. University of Durham ... 2QZ SDSS-2dF QSO Redshift Surveys. 2QZ P(k) vs SDSS DR2 LRG P(k) ...
AAOmicron instrument design. Strawman requirements 10% within the z, J and ... RAver. Window. Table. Wavelength windows for AAOmicron ~700 resolution elements. ...
color-magnitude diagram Hipparcos; Density law Double exponential ... Jimenez et al. 1998. Isochrones are plotted. for the Ages, 8, 11, 13, 15 Gyr, and. Matallicities ...
2-5x more stars than Lick or BC03 ... uses all Lick lines (not just 3-4 out of 25) less affected by poor fluxing, sky subtraction, calibration to Lick, CRs etc ...
Limits on Neutrino masses. Bimodality in the 2dFGRS. Colour (B-R) Peacock 2003. Blue ... Weighing Neutrinos with 2dFGRS. Free streaming effect: Wn/Wm 0.13 ...
UK Infrared Deep Sky Survey. overview and status. Near-IR ... 5 surveys, 3 extragalactic. Significantly deeper than 2MASS. UKIDSS. Observing started May 2005 ...
Obtain spectra for 1 million galaxies and 100,000 quasars ... Highest known redshift quasar (z = 6.4) Large scale structure cosmological constraints ...
But ergonomics very. poor, and all depends. on a giddy edifice of. flaky hardware and ... VPH gratings used in Littrow exhibit a zeroth order ghost image of ...
Zr I, Ba II enhanced by 0.5 dex. Zr I, Ba II enhanced by 1.0 dex. Zr I & Ba II ... for s-process element abundance variations of at least 0.5 dex to be observed ...
Sound Waves ... Sound speed plummets. Wave stalls at a radius of 150 Mpc. ... A crest launches a planar sound wave, which at recombination may or may not be in phase ...
BUT must articulate camera as well as grating. 6dFGS Gratings ... Leads to progressive oil contamination of field-flattening lens during each lunation. ...
The equation of state parameter w(z) = p/ w = -1. w = const -1. w(z) or perhaps ... US Air Force, 4 telescopes planned. 3,000 sq deg in 5 bands. Spectrographs ...
To have spectral stability better than 1/20 pixel over 4 hours. ... Mini-shuffle: charge shuffle by few pixels to give blended ON/OFF pairs, good to ...
Carelec spectrograph (Cassegrain focus) Range 380-750 nm 0.3 nm / px. But... But spectrograph Aurelie has. short spectral range 3 exposures needed. But ...
CYCLOPS: A fibre feed for UCLES. Simon O'Toole - AAO ... CYCLOPS will keep the AAO a world-leader in high-resolution spectroscopy of bright objects ...
Large Scale Survey & the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) on SALT ... Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) Formerly the Prime Focus Imaging Spectrograph (PFIS) ...
Optical and Near-Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation. Astronomy & Instrumentation ... ALSO OZPOZ for VLT, Echidna for Subaru... Isaac Newton Group ...
HERMES is a new high resolution multi-object spectrometer on the AAT. spectral resolution 30,000 ... for a million stars (isochrone ages for about 200,000) ...
To conduct a multi colour/epoch Stromlo Southern Sky Survey ... no instrument is planned that can map the entire southern sky in multiple colours and epochs ...
Michael Blanton, David Hogg, Bob Nichol, Roman Scoccimarro, Ryan Scranton, ... 4000-5000 fibers, using Echidna technology, feeding multiple bench spectrographs. ...
`Piggyback' redshift surveys of radio galaxies at z 0.3 ... Needs new large-area (50-100 deg2) sub-mJy radio survey. ... the local radio-source population is ...