Advancing Astronomical Instrumentation: an Adaptive Optics Kinematic Study of z~1 Star-Forming Galaxies

This thesis has a dual focus on improving ground-based astronomical instruments and an observational study of distant star-forming galaxies to study galaxy formation and evolution. Of fundamental importance to this work are adaptive optics (AO) technology and integral field spectrographs (IFSs), bot...

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Main Author: Mieda, Etsuko
Other Authors: Wright, Shelley A., Astronomy and Astrophysics
Format: Thesis
Language:unknown
Published: 2017
Subjects:
adaptive optics
astronomical instrumentation
galaxy dynamics
galaxy evolution
galaxy formation
integral field spectrograph
0606
Ellesmere Island
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/80192
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Summary:This thesis has a dual focus on improving ground-based astronomical instruments and an observational study of distant star-forming galaxies to study galaxy formation and evolution. Of fundamental importance to this work are adaptive optics (AO) technology and integral field spectrographs (IFSs), both of which offer powerful means of studying high redshift galaxies. First, I describe the design and development of an instrument to characterize the vertical atmospheric turbulence using the SLODAR (SLOpe Detection and Ranging) method. This instrument was used in a campaign at Ellesmere island (∼ 80◦N) and determined that the site has half of the total turbulence residing in the ground layer ( Ph.D.

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