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SpIOMM and SITELLE: Wide-field Imaging FTS for the Study of Galaxy Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Laurent Drissen ,
Anne-Pier Bernier  and
Carmelle Robert
Laurent Drissen
Affiliation:
Département de physique, de génie physique et d'optique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada email: ldrissen@phy.ulaval.ca
Anne-Pier Bernier
Affiliation:
Département de physique, de génie physique et d'optique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada email: ldrissen@phy.ulaval.ca
Carmelle Robert
Affiliation:
Département de physique, de génie physique et d'optique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada email: ldrissen@phy.ulaval.ca
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Abstract

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SpIOMM, a wide-field Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer attached to the Mont Mégantic 1.6-m telescope, is capable of obtaining the visible spectrum of every source of light in a 12 arcminute field of view, with a spectral resolution ranging from R = 1 (wide-band image) to R = 25 000, resulting in 1.7 million spectra with a spatial resolution of one arcsecond. SITELLE will be a similar instrument attached to the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, and will be in operation in early 2013. We present a short description of these instruments and illustrate their capabilities to study nearby galaxies with the results of a data cube of M51.

Keywords

instrumentation: spectrographsgalaxies: abundancesgalaxies: individual (M51)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 104 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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