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Science with NIFS, Australia's First Gemini Instrument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Peter J. McGregor ,
Michael Dopita ,
Peter Wood  and
Michael G. Burton
Peter J. McGregor
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; peter@mso.anu.edu.au
Michael Dopita
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; mad@mso.anu.edu.au
Peter Wood
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; wood@mso.anu.edu.au
Michael G. Burton
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of NSW, 2052, Australia; mgb@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
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Abstract

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The Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) will beAustralia’s first Gemini instrument. NIFS is a near-infrared, imaging spectrograph that will be used with the ALTAIR facility adaptive optics system on Gemini North to perform near-diffraction-limited imaging spectroscopy over a 3·0″ × 3·0″ field of view with 0·1″ wide slitlets and a spectral resolving power of ˜5300. NIFS will operate in the wavelength range from 0·94–2·50 µm where ALTAIR delivers its greatest gains. Its primary purpose is to study moderate-surface-brightness structures around discrete objects that are revealed at high spatial resolution by ALTAIR. NIFS will address a wide range of science from studies of Galactic star formation and the Galactic centre to the nature of disk galaxies at z ˜ 1. Studies of the demographics of massive black holes in galactic nuclei and studies of the excitation conditions in the inner narrow-line regions of Seyfert galaxies have been identified as two core NIFS programs. These and other science drivers for NIFS are discussed.

Keywords

instrumentation: spectrographsgalaxies: nucleigalaxies: Seyfertinfrared: galaxies
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 2001 , pp. 41 - 57
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2001

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