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The STIS parallel survey: Introduction and first results

Authors :
Gardner, Jonathan P
Hill, Robert S
Baum, Stefi A
Collins, Nicholas R
Ferguson, Henry C
Fosbury, Robert A. E
Gilliland, Ronald L
Green, Richard F
Gull, Theodore R
Heap, Sara R
Lindler, Don J
Malumuth, Eliot M
Micol, Alberto
Pirzkal, Norbert
Sandoval, Jennifer L
Tolstoy, Eline
Walsh, Jeremy R
Woodgate, Bruce E
Source :
The 1997 HST Calibration Workshop with a New Generation of Instruments.
Publication Year :
1997
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1997.

Abstract

The installation of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allows for the first time two-dimensional optical and ultraviolet slitless spectroscopy of faint objects from space. The STIS Parallel Survey (SPS) routinely obtains broad band images and slitless spectra of random fields in parallel with HST observations using other instruments. The SPS is designed to study a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the rate of star formation in galaxies at intermediate to high redshift through the detection of emission-line galaxies. We present the first results of the SPS, which demonstrate the capability of STIS slitless spectroscopy to detect and identify high-redshift galaxies.

Subjects

Subjects :
Astronomy

Details

Language :
English
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Journal :
The 1997 HST Calibration Workshop with a New Generation of Instruments
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.19980202040
Document Type :
Report