High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy of Protostars with Large Telescopes

Author(s):  
Thomas Greene
1984 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 675-678
Author(s):  
J. Lequeux

Interstellar matter is certainly one of the fields where a very large telescope (VLT) will prove to be most fruitful. This includes (somewhat paradoxically, but this will be explained later) the study of extended emissions. I will now examine in turn the different domains of interest for a VLT.I. Neutral diffuse matterOptical and near IR observations will mainly contribute to this domain through high-resolution spectroscopy of interstellar absorption lines in the spectra of stars. These lines are resonant lines of atoms (NaI, KI, etc.) or ions (CaII, TiII, etc.) as well as of some molecules (CH+, CH, CN, CS+, C2 in the near IR). Clearly this kind of study is always photon - limited; a VLT will collect more photons than present telescopes, thus increase the possibilities considerably.


2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 525-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Oliva ◽  
L. Origlia

High-resolution (HR) near-IR spectroscopy is opening new windows in our understanding of several hot topics of modern planet, stellar and extragalactic astrophysics, and it will have a huge impact in the JWST and ALMA era and beyond. The much reduced extinction at these wavelengths allows to pierce the dust embedding those objects which are heavily obscured in the optical. Moreover, at high redshifts several spectral features, commonly exploited when studying local galaxies, are shifted into the near-IR. However, despite its scientific potential, the field of HR IR spectroscopy and its related science is developing very slowly, because of the lack of optimized instruments with the necessary combination of spectral resolution and coverage.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Origlia ◽  
E. Oliva ◽  
C. Baffa ◽  
G. Falcini ◽  
E. Giani ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Diego ◽  
Ian A. Crawford ◽  
David D. Walker

Author(s):  
L. Spinoglio ◽  
A. Alonso-Herrero ◽  
L. Armus ◽  
M. Baes ◽  
J. Bernard-Salas ◽  
...  

AbstractIR spectroscopy in the range 12–230 μm with the SPace IR telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) will reveal the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of galaxies and black holes through cosmic time, bridging the gap between the James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Extremely Large Telescopes at shorter wavelengths and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array at longer wavelengths. The SPICA, with its 2.5-m telescope actively cooled to below 8 K, will obtain the first spectroscopic determination, in the mid-IR rest-frame, of both the star-formation rate and black hole accretion rate histories of galaxies, reaching lookback times of 12 Gyr, for large statistically significant samples. Densities, temperatures, radiation fields, and gas-phase metallicities will be measured in dust-obscured galaxies and active galactic nuclei, sampling a large range in mass and luminosity, from faint local dwarf galaxies to luminous quasars in the distant Universe. Active galactic nuclei and starburst feedback and feeding mechanisms in distant galaxies will be uncovered through detailed measurements of molecular and atomic line profiles. The SPICA’s large-area deep spectrophotometric surveys will provide mid-IR spectra and continuum fluxes for unbiased samples of tens of thousands of galaxies, out to redshifts of z ~ 6.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kaufmann ◽  
Helen M. Chrzanowski ◽  
Aron Vanselow ◽  
Sven Ramelow
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