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The SAMI Galaxy Survey : cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes

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Date
11/01/2015
Author
Sharp, R.
Allen, J. T.
Fogarty, L. M. R.
Croom, S. M.
Cortese, L.
Green, A. W.
Nielsen, J.
Richards, S. N.
Scott, N.
Taylor, E. N.
Barnes, L. A.
Bauer, A. E.
Birchall, M.
Bland-Hawthorn, J.
Bloom, J. V.
Brough, S.
Bryant, J. J.
Cecil, G. N.
Colless, M.
Couch, W. J.
Drinkwater, M. J.
Driver, S.
Foster, C.
Goodwin, M.
Gunawardhana, M. L. P.
Ho, I. -T.
Hampton, E. J.
Hopkins, A. M.
Jones, H.
Konstantopoulos, I. S.
Lawrence, J. S.
Leslie, S. K.
Lewis, G. F.
Liske, J.
López-Sánchez, Á. R.
Lorente, N. P. F.
McElroy, R.
Medling, A. M.
Mahajan, S.
Mould, J.
Parker, Q.
Pracy, M. B.
Obreschkow, D.
Owers, M. S.
Schaefer, A. L.
Sweet, S. M
Thomas, A.
Tonini, C.
Walcher, C. J.
Keywords
Instrumentation: spectrographs
Methods: data analysis
Techniques: imaging spectroscopy
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
DAS
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Abstract
We present a methodology for the regularization and combination of sparse sampled and irregularly gridded observations from fibre-optic multiobject integral field spectroscopy. The approach minimizes interpolation and retains image resolution on combining subpixel dithered data. We discuss the methodology in the context of the Sydney–AAO multiobject integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey underway at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The SAMI instrument uses 13 fibre bundles to perform high-multiplex integral field spectroscopy across a 1° diameter field of view. The SAMI Galaxy Survey is targeting ∼3000 galaxies drawn from the full range of galaxy environments. We demonstrate the subcritical sampling of the seeing and incomplete fill factor for the integral field bundles results in only a 10 per cent degradation in the final image resolution recovered. We also implement a new methodology for tracking covariance between elements of the resulting data cubes which retains 90 per cent of the covariance information while incurring only a modest increase in the survey data volume.
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Sharp , R , Allen , J T , Fogarty , L M R , Croom , S M , Cortese , L , Green , A W , Nielsen , J , Richards , S N , Scott , N , Taylor , E N , Barnes , L A , Bauer , A E , Birchall , M , Bland-Hawthorn , J , Bloom , J V , Brough , S , Bryant , J J , Cecil , G N , Colless , M , Couch , W J , Drinkwater , M J , Driver , S , Foster , C , Goodwin , M , Gunawardhana , M L P , Ho , I -T , Hampton , E J , Hopkins , A M , Jones , H , Konstantopoulos , I S , Lawrence , J S , Leslie , S K , Lewis , G F , Liske , J , López-Sánchez , Á R , Lorente , N P F , McElroy , R , Medling , A M , Mahajan , S , Mould , J , Parker , Q , Pracy , M B , Obreschkow , D , Owers , M S , Schaefer , A L , Sweet , S M , Thomas , A , Tonini , C & Walcher , C J 2015 , ' The SAMI Galaxy Survey : cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 446 , no. 2 , pp. 1551-1566 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2055
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2055
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2014, the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2055
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12586

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