Simulated stellar kinematics studies of high-redshift galaxies with the HARMONI Integral Field Spectrograph
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 458:3 (2016) 2405-2422
The Long wave (11–16 μm) spectrograph for the EChO M3 Mission Candidate study
Experimental Astronomy Springer Nature 40:2-3 (2015) 801-811
HSIM: a simulation pipeline for the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European ELT
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 453:4 (2015) 3754-3765
Abstract:
We present HSIM: a dedicated pipeline for simulating observations with the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European Extremely Large Telescope. HSIM takes high spectral and spatial resolution input data-cubes, encoding physical descriptions of astrophysical sources, and generates mock observed data-cubes. The simulations incorporate detailed models of the sky, telescope and instrument to produce realistic mock data. Further, we employ a new method of incorporating the strongly wavelength dependent adaptive optics point spread functions. HSIM provides a step beyond traditional exposure time calculators and allows us to both predict the feasibility of a given observing programme with HARMONI, as well as perform instrument design trade-offs. In this paper we concentrate on quantitative measures of the feasibility of planned observations. We give a detailed description of HSIM and present two studies: estimates of point source sensitivities along with simulations of star-forming emission-line galaxies at $z\sim 2-3$. We show that HARMONI will provide exquisite resolved spectroscopy of these objects on sub-kpc scales, probing and deriving properties of individual star-forming regions.The Red Radio Ring: a gravitationally lensed hyperluminous infrared radio galaxy at z = 2.553 discovered through the citizen science project Space Warps
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 452:1 (2015) 502-510
Results from the Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign
Proceedings of SPIE SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9148 (2014) 91481o-91481o-15