The STIS parallel survey: Introduction and first results

被引：12

作者：

Gardner, JP ^{[1
]}

Hill, RS

Baum, SA

Collins, NR

Ferguson, HC

Fosbury, RAE

Gilliland, RL

Green, RF

Gull, TR

Heap, SR

Lindler, DJ

Malumuth, EM

Micol, A

Pirzkal, N

Sandoval, JL

Tolstoy, E

Walsh, JR

Woodgate, BE

机构：

[1] Natl Opt Astron Observ, Tucson, AZ 85726 USA

[2] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astron & Solar Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[3] Hughes STX Corp, Lanham, MD 20706 USA

[4] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

[5] Space Telescope European Coordinating Facil, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[6] Natl Opt Astron Observ, Tucson, AZ 85726 USA

[7] Adv Comp Concepts Inc, Potomac, MD 20854 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 1998年 / 492卷 / 02期

关键词：

cosmology; observations; galaxies; evolution; luminosity function; mass function; statistics; surveys;

D O I：

10.1086/311105

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The installation of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allows for the first time two-dimensional optical and ultraviolet slitless spectroscopy of faint objects from space. The STIS Parallel Survey (SPS) routinely obtains broadband images and slitless spectra of random fields in parallel with HST observations using other instruments. The SPS is designed to study a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the rate of star formation in galaxies at intermediate to high redshift through the detection of emission-line galaxies. We present the first results of the SPS, which demonstrate the capability of STIS slitless spectroscopy to detect and identify high-redshift galaxies.

引用

页码：L99 / L102

页数：4

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