Program: GN-2006B-Q-107
| Title: | Kinematic standard stars for NIFS |
| PI: | Rogemar A. Riffel |
| Co-I(s): | Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann |
Abstract
This is a proposal to obtain K-band spectra of
a number of giant G, K and M stars using NIFS. Our goal
is to build a small library of spectra to be used
in stellar kinematic studies of nearby galaxies.
We are interested, in particular, in using NIFS to
to probe the stellar kinematics of the innermost regions of
nearby active galaxies. For a few of them, it may
be possible to resolve the radius of influence of the
nuclear supermassive black hole using NIFS in combination
with ALTAIR. As we intend to use the direct pixel
fitting technique to obtain velocity dispersions from
measurements of the K-band CO absorption features, we
need a number of template K-band stellar spectra observed
with NIFS.
Publications using this program's data
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[data]
[ADS] The Gemini Spectral Library of Near-IR Late-Type Stellar Templates and Its Application for Velocity Dispersion Measurements
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[data]
[ADS] A correlation between the stellar and [Fe II] velocity dispersions in active galaxies
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[data]
[ADS] A 5 x 109 Msun Black Hole in NGC 1277 from Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy
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[data]
[ADS] Near-infrared observations of the gas structure and kinematics in the circumnuclear region of NGC 1672
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[data]
[ADS] The massive relic galaxy NGC 1277 is dark matter deficient. From dynamical models of integral-field stellar kinematics out to five effective radii
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[data]
[ADS] Spatially resolved gas and stellar kinematics in compact starburst galaxies
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[data]
[ADS] A Slowly Precessing Disk in the Nucleus of M31 as the Feeding Mechanism for a Central Starburst