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astro-ph2004
CIRPASS: description, performance and astronomical results
Ian Parry, Andrew Bunker, Andrew Dean +9
The Cambridge Infra-red Panoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS) is described. This near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph has been used on the 8m Gemini-South Telescope, the 3.9m Anglo-A…
astro-ph2004
Extragalactic Integral Field Spectroscopy on the Gemini Telescopes
Andrew Bunker, Joanna Smith, Ian Parry +8
We have been undertaking a programme on the Gemini 8-m telescopes to demonstrate the power of integral field spectroscopy, using the optical GMOS spectrograph, and the new CIRPASS…
astro-ph2003
Illuminating Protogalaxies? The Discovery of Extended Lyman-alpha Emission around a QSO at z=4.5
Andrew Bunker, Joanna Smith, Hyron Spinrad +2
We have discovered extended Lyman- emission around a QSO in a deep long-slit spectrum with Keck/LRIS at moderate spectral resolution (). The line emission…