Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2006
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Astronomy in Antarctica, 26th meeting of the IAU, Special Session 7, 22-23 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, SPS7, #16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
3D-Spectroscopy (3DS) is an observational technique, that offers several operational benefits for a location such as Antarctica, while being applicable to a wide range of astronomical programmes. Given the environmental conditions, instrumentation for Antarctica should feature a high level of reliability, operational simplicity, and broad capabilities at a minimum of required service. Integral-Field Spectroscopy (IFS) provides multiple spectra for each point of a 2-dimensional field, rather than only along a narrow 1-dimensional spectrograph slit. Therefore, IFS does not require very accurate telescope pointing, nor pre-assumptions about slit or aperture sizes. It avoids any losses due to seeing or atmospheric dispersion, eliminating the need for parallactic alignment or a dispersion compensator. Furthermore, as all the information is gathered at the same time, 3D-spectroscopy is more efficient than any scanning technique and insensitive to changing conditions. The resulting data-cube (RA, Dec, lambda) allows both a PSF-optimized extraction of single and combined spectra, as well as the re-construction of narrow- and broad-band images, without the need for a filter wheel. The use of future, innovative integral-field units, eliminates much of the complexity, present in classical spectroscopy. It relaxes acquisition requirements and removes critical, movable parts from the system. This allows a fast and reliable 'point-and-expose' observational approach, which is ideally suited for remote or robotic observations, as needed in Antarctica. Apart from the technological benefits, the presentation will give examples of a variety of scientific programmes that benefit from the use of IFS, ranging from stellar population studies to cosmology.
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