Publications (26)
The GAPS Programme at TNG XXI -- A GIARPS case-study of known young planetary candidates: confirmation of HD 285507 b and refutation of AD Leo b
I. Carleo, L. Malavolta, A. F. Lanza +67
The existence of hot Jupiters is still not well understood. Two main channels are thought to be responsible for their current location: a smooth planet migration through the proto-…
Lines and continuum sky emission in the near infrared: observational constraints from deep high spectral resolution spectra with GIANO-TNG
E. Oliva, L. Origlia, S. Scuderi +19
Aims Determining the intensity of lines and continuum airglow emission in the H-band is important for the design of faint-object infrared spectrographs. Existing spectra at low/med…
Exploring Brown Dwarf Disks in rho Oph
A. Natta, L. Testi, F. Comeron +5
This paper discusses evidence for and properties of disks associated to brown dwarfs in the star-forming region rho-Oph. We selected nine objects fr om the ISOCAM survey of Bontemp…
GIANO-TNG spectroscopy of red supergiants in the young star cluster RSGC2
L. Origlia, E. Oliva, R. Maiolino +19
The inner disk of the Galaxy has a number of young star clusters dominated by red supergiants that are heavily obscured by dust extinction and observable only at infrared wavelengt…
1.65 micrometers (H-band) surface photometry of galaxies. III: observations of 558 galaxies with the TIRGO 1.5m telescope
G. Gavazzi, P. Franzetti, M. Scodeggio +5
We present near-infrared H-band (1.65 micron) surface photometry of 558 galaxies in the Coma Supercluster and in the Virgo cluster. This data set, obtained with the Arcetri NICMOS3…
GIARPS: commissioning and first scientific results
R. Claudi, S. Benatti, I. Carleo +41
GIARPS (GIAno \& haRPS) is a project devoted to have on the same focal station of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) both high resolution spectrographs, HARPS-N (VIS) and GIANO…
A GIANO-TNG high resolution IR spectrum of the airglow emission
E. Oliva, L. Origlia, R. Maiolino +19
A flux-calibrated high resolution spectrum of the airglow emission is a practical lambda-calibration reference for astronomical spectral observations. It is also useful for constra…
Northern JHK Standard Stars for Array Detectors
L. K. Hunt, F. Mannucci, L. Testi +5
We report J, H and K photometry of 86 stars in 40 fields in the northern hemisphere. The fields are smaller than or comparable to a 4x4 arcmin field-of-view, and are roughly unifor…
Multi-band high resolution spectroscopy rules out the hot Jupiter BD+20 1790b - First data from the GIARPS Commissioning
I. Carleo, S. Benatti, A. F. Lanza +51
Context. Stellar activity is currently challenging the detection of young planets via the radial velocity (RV) technique. Aims. We attempt to definitively discriminate the nature o…
The GAPS programme at TNG XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD189733 b accounting for stellar activity
G. Guilluy, V. Andretta, F. Borsa +48
Exoplanets orbiting very close to their host star are strongly irradiated. This can lead the upper atmospheric layers to expand and evaporate into space. The metastable helium (HeI…
GIANO-TNG spectroscopy of red supergiants in the young star cluster RSGC3
L. Origlia, E. Oliva, N. Sanna +17
The Scutum complex in the inner disk of the Galaxy has a number of young star clusters dominated by red supergiants that are heavily obscured by dust extinction and observable only…
The fiber-fed preslit of GIANO at T.N.G
A. Tozzi, E. Oliva, L. Origlia +9
Giano is a Cryogenic Spectrograph located in T.N.G. (Spain) and commisioned in 2013. It works in the range 950-2500 nm with a resolving power of 50000. This instrument was designed…
The Skysoft Project
C. Baffa, E. Giani, A. Checcucci
We present the Skysoft project (http://www.skysoft.org). Skysoft is a YAASD (Yet Another Astronomical Software Directory), but with a different overall approach. To be useful, Skys…
Near-IR Spectrograph for VSI (VLTI Spectro Imager): dispersing the light from an integrated optics beam-combiner
D. Lorenzetti, G. Li Causi, R. Speziali +7
We present the optical and cryo-mechanical solutions for the Spectrograph of VSI (VLTI Spectro-Imager), the second generation near-infrared (J, H and K bands) interferometric instr…
Pulsar Searches with the SKA
L. Levin, W. Armour, C. Baffa +24
The Square Kilometre Array will be an amazing instrument for pulsar astronomy. While the full SKA will be sensitive enough to detect all pulsars in the Galaxy visible from Earth, a…
Transmission curves and effective refraction indices of MKO near infrared consortium filters at cryogenic temperatures
F. Ghinassi, J. Licandro, E. Oliva +5
We report transmission measurements at cryogenic temperatures for 4 broad-band filters of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) near-infrared filter set and 5 narrow-band filters. The…
The EChO science case
Giovanna Tinetti, Pierre Drossart, Paul Eccleston +347
The discovery of almost 2000 exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. Observations to date have shown that our Solar System is certainly not representativ…
The TNG Near Infrared Camera Spectrometer
C. Baffa, G. Comoretto, S. Gennari +14
NICS (acronym for Near Infrared Camera Spectrometer) is the near-infrared cooled camera-spectrometer that has been developed by the Arcetri Infrared Group at the Arcetri Astrophysi…
GIARPS@TNG GIANO-B & HARPS-N together for a wider wavelength range spectroscopy
R. Claudi, S. Benatti, I. Carleo +36
Since 2012, thanks to the installation of the high resolution echelle spectrograph in the optical range HARPS-N, the Italian telescope TNG (La Palma) became one of the key faciliti…
A Young Very Low-Mass Object surrounded by warm dust
L. Testi, A. Natta, E. Oliva +5
We present a complete low-resolution (R~100) near-infrared spectrum of the substellar object GY11, member of the rho-Ophiuchi young association. The object is remarkable because of…
Direct constraint on the distance of y2 Velorum from AMBER/VLTI observations
F. Millour, R. G. Petrov, O. Chesneau +95
In this work, we present the first AMBER observations, of the Wolf-Rayet and O (WR+O) star binary system y2 Velorum. The AMBER instrument was used with the telescopes UT2, UT3, and…
Discovery of strong CIV absorption in the highest redshift quasar
R. Maiolino, F. Mannucci, C. Baffa +2
We report the near-IR detection of a prominent CIV absorption in the rest-frame UV spectrum of the most distant known QSO, SDSS J104433.04-012502.2, at z=5.80. This QSO was recentl…
The relative abundances of ellipticals and starbursts among the Extremely Red Galaxies
F. Mannucci, L. Pozzetti, D. Thompson +5
We present J band observations of a complete sample of 57 red galaxies selected to have K<20 and R-K>5.3. We use the Pozzetti and Mannucci (2000) prescriptions, based on the R-K an…
NICS-TNG infrared spectroscopy of NGC1068: the first extragalactic measurement of [PII] and a new tool to constrain the origin of [FeII] line emission in galaxies
E. Oliva, A. Marconi, R. Maiolino +19
We report 0.9-1.4 micron spectroscopic observations of NGC1068 collected during the commissioning phase of the near infrared camera spectrometer (NICS) of the Telescopio Nazionale…
Near-infrared observations of galaxies in Pisces-Perseus: I. H-band surface photometry of 174 spirals
G. Moriondo, C. Baffa, S. Casertano +7
We present near-infrared, H-band (1.65 um), surface photometry of 174 spiral galaxies in the area of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster. The images, acquired with the ARNICA camera mo…
LonGSp: the Gornergrat Longslit Infrared Spectrometer
L. Vanzi, M. Sozzi, G. Marcucci +8
We present a near-infrared cooled grating spectrometer that has been developed at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory for the 1.5 m Infrared Telescope at Gornergrat (TIRGO). The…