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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 761, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/169
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: individual (ESO 185-G031); galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: star formation; techniques: imaging spectroscopy
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) [CE110001020]
- Australian Research Council [FT100100457]
- ARC
- National Science Foundation [DGE-1035963]
- Australian Research Council [FT100100457] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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We present the first scientific results from the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object IFS (SAMI) at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This unique instrument deploys 13 fused fiber bundles (hexabundles) across a one-degree field of view allowing simultaneous spatially resolved spectroscopy of 13 galaxies. During the first SAMI commissioning run, targeting a single galaxy field, one object (ESO 185-G031) was found to have extended minor axis emission with ionization and kinematic properties consistent with a large-scale galactic wind. The importance of this result is twofold: (1) fiber bundle spectrographs are able to identify low surface brightness emission arising from extranuclear activity and (2) such activity may be more common than presently assumed because conventional multi-object spectrographs use single-aperture fibers and spectra from these are nearly always dominated by nuclear emission. These early results demonstrate the extraordinary potential of multi-object hexabundle spectroscopy in future galaxy surveys.
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