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Dec 2006
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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #55.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V
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Infrared continuum surveys, optical emission-line surveys, and radio CO and HI surveys have revealed the star-forming ISM as a complex "froth" of shells, filaments, blobs, and myriad "working surfaces" whose origin and evolution remain poorly understood. The generic relations between these nebular structures and the embedded star clusters that have been discovered in abundance throughout the Galaxy by the Spitzer Space Telescope have yet to be deciphered. To address these challenges, we consider the options for carrying out wide-field narrow-band imaging surveys of the near-infrared line emission from the Milky Way and other nearby star-forming galaxies. The near-IR part of the EM spectrum is rich with diagnostic nebular emission features. We draw from the experiences gained from the ABU/SPIREX near-IR telescope that operated in Antarctica in the late 1990s, and from the Brackett-Alpha Mapper (BAM) -a Fabry-Perot spectrometer that successfully measured kinematics of the warm-ionized hydrogen gas in the northern Milky Way. Options for deploying a multi-line near-infrared spectroscopic mapper on SOFIA, high-altitude balloons, and the lunar surface will be discussed.
Allen Lew
Kutyrev Aleksandr
Silverberg Robert
Waller William H.
Woodgate Bruce
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