GH&#945;FaS: Galaxy H&#945; Fabry-Perot system for the WHT

Claude Carignan; Olivier Hernandez; Jean-Luc Gach; Philippe Balard; Marie-Maude De Denus-Baillargeon; Kambiz Fathi; John Beckman; Jean Koulidiati

doi:10.1117/12.790616

10 July 2008 GHαFaS: galaxy Hα Fabry-Perot system for the WHT

Claude Carignan, Olivier Hernandez, Jean-Luc Gach, Philippe Balard, Marie-Maude De Denus-Baillargeon, Kambiz Fathi, John Beckman, Jean Koulidiati

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Proceedings Volume 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II; 70145N (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790616
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

GHαFaS is a new Fabry-Perot system available at the William Herschel Telescope. It was mounted, for the first time, at the Nasmyth focus of the 4.2 m WHT in La Palma in 2007 July. With a spectral resolution of the order R~15000 and a seeing limited spatial resolution, GHαFaS provides a new look at the Hα-emitting gas over a 4 arcminutes circular field in the nearby universe. Many types of objects can be observed with a scanning Fabry-Perot system on a 4.2 m class telescope such as galaxies, HII regions, planetary nebulae, supernova remnants outflows from stars and the diffuse interstellar medium. Astronomers from the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Experimentale (LAE) in Montreal, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), have inaugurated GHαFaS by studying in detail the dynamics of nearby spiral galaxies. A robust set of tools for reducing and analyzing the data cubes obtained with GHαFaS has also been developed.

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Claude Carignan, Olivier Hernandez, Jean-Luc Gach, Philippe Balard, Marie-Maude De Denus-Baillargeon, Kambiz Fathi, John Beckman, and Jean Koulidiati "GHαFaS: galaxy Hα Fabry-Perot system for the WHT", Proc. SPIE 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, 70145N (10 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790616

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Fabry–Perot interferometers

Galactic astronomy

Charge-coupled devices

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