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View article: Impact of Satellite Constellations on Optical Astronomy and Recommendations Toward Mitigations
Impact of Satellite Constellations on Optical Astronomy and Recommendations Toward Mitigations Open
In May 2019 SpaceX launched its first batch of 60 Starlink communication satellites, which surprised astronomers and laypeople with their appearance in the night sky. Astronomers have only now, a little over a year later, accumulated enoug…
View article: O CAESAR: The Optical CAtalogue of Extragalactic SupernovA Remnants
O CAESAR: The Optical CAtalogue of Extragalactic SupernovA Remnants Open
We present O CAESAR, the Optical CAtalogue of Extragalactic SupernovA Remnants. O CAESAR will provide the largest homogeneous optical survey of extragalactic SNR candidates taken by the same telescope, the same instrument, and under simila…
View article: 3D optical spectroscopic study of NGC 3344 with SITELLE: I. Identification and confirmation of supernova remnants
3D optical spectroscopic study of NGC 3344 with SITELLE: I. Identification and confirmation of supernova remnants Open
We present the first optical identification and confirmation of a sample of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the nearby galaxy NGC 3344. Using high spectral and spatial resolution data, obtained with the CFHT imaging Fourier transform spectrog…
View article: The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018 Open
(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the international astronomy and engineering communities, and re…
View article: A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE)
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) Open
The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-band (NB) Hα +[NII] imaging survey carried out with MegaCam at the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. The survey covers the whole Virgo cluster region fro…
View article: The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe
The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe Open
MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrographs operating at low (R ~ 2000 - 3500) and moderate (R ~ 6000…