4 papers
What I Wish I had Known When I Began Building Astronomical Instruments
Daniel Fabricant
This paper describes lessons learned over a long career building astronomical instruments. Although these lessons are based on one person's experiences, they were learned while wor…
A Census of Compact Elliptical Galaxies in the Coma Cluster
Aleksandra V. Sharonova, Kirill A. Grishin, Igor V. Chilingarian +3
Compact elliptical (cE) galaxies are compact stellar systems with stellar masses of and radii typically < 0.6 kpc. Here we investigate the prop…
NGC 3259: A Signal for an Untapped Population of Slowly Accreting Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
Kirill A. Grishin, Igor V. Chilingarian, Francoise Combes +4
Low-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can provide important constraints on the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), a central challenge in modern cosmology…
An Integral Field Unit for the Binospec Spectrograph
Daniel Fabricant, Sagi Ben-Ami, Igor Chilingarian +5
Binospec is a wide-field optical (360 to 1000 nm) spectrograph commissioned at the MMT 6.5m telescope in 2017. In direct imaging mode Binospec addresses twin 8 (wide) by 1…