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Publications (6)

astro-ph.GA2023

GHOST Commissioning Science Results: Identifying a new chemically peculiar star in Reticulum II

Christian R. Hayes, Kim A. Venn, Fletcher Waller +79

The Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) is the newest high resolution spectrograph to be developed for a large aperture telescope, recently deployed and commissione…

astro-ph.GA2025

GHOST commissioning science results -- IV: Chemodynamical analyses of Milky Way satellites Sagittarius II and Aquarius II

Daria Zaremba, Kim Venn, Christian R. Hayes +28

We present Gemini/GHOST high-resolution spectra of five stars observed in two low surface brightness Milky Way satellites, Sagittarius II (Sgr2) and Aquarius II (Aqu2). For Aqu2, t…

astro-ph.IM2024

Panopticon: a telescope for our times

Will Saunders, Timothy Chin, Michael Goodwin

We present a design for a wide-field spectroscopic telescope. The only large powered mirror is spherical, the resulting spherical aberration is corrected for each target separately…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

Spectroscopic fingerprints of valence and spin states in manganese oxides and fluorides

Ruimin Qiao, Timothy Chin, Stephen J. Harris +2

We performed a systematic study of soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy in various manganese oxides and fluorides. Both Mn L-edges and ligand (O and F) K-edges are presented and comp…

astro-ph.GA2024

GHOST Commissioning Science Results III: Characterizing an iron-poor damped Lyman system

Trystyn A. M. Berg, Christian R. Hayes, Stefano Cristiani +20

The Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) is a new echelle spectrograph available on the Gemini-South telescope as of Semester 2024A. We present the first high resolu…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Science Performance of the Gemini High Resolution Optical Spectrograph

Alan W. McConnachie, Christian R. Hayes, J. Gordon Robertson +46

The Gemini High Resolution Optical Spectrograph (GHOST) is a fiber-fed spectrograph system on the Gemini South telescope that provides simultaneous wavelength coverage from 348 - 1…