First Results from TYPHOON: A Spectrophotometric Data Cube Program
Abstract
TYPHOON is a program for producing and analyzing spectrophotometric data cubes with unprecedented resolution and coverage. This program has wavelength coverage spanning 3727 to 7000 Angstroms, has a 2-6 Angstrom spectral resolution, a 15 arcmin spatial field, is seeing limited to < 1 arcsec, and is being employed on the 100" duPont telescope in Las Campanas. TYPHOON uses instruments already active on the telescope and thus is well underway. Using TYPHOON, we can analyze kinetic structure, view 3D representations of galaxies in wavelength space, create integrated spectra of bars, nuclei, rings, etc, and analyze galactic population synthesis. TYPHOON is a powerful tool for extragalactic science with many applications.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #219
- Pub Date:
- January 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012AAS...21941107S