Hubble Space Telescope  WFC3 Early Release Science: Emission-line galaxies from infrared grism observations

Straughn, Amber; Kuntschner, Harald; Kummel, Martin; Walsh, Jeremy; Cohen, Seth H; Gardner, Jonathan; Windhorst, Rogier A; O'Connell, Robert W; Pirzkal, Norbet; Meurer, Gerhardt; McCarthy, P J; Dopita, Michael; Bond, Howard, E.; Frogel, Jay A.; Mutchler, Max; Walker, Alistair R; Whitmore, Bradley; Young, Erick

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Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Early Release Science: Emission-line galaxies from infrared grism observations

Date

2011

Authors

Straughn, Amber

Kuntschner, Harald

Kummel, Martin

Walsh, Jeremy

Cohen, Seth H

Gardner, Jonathan

Windhorst, Rogier A

O'Connell, Robert W

Pirzkal, Norbet

Meurer, Gerhardt

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

We present grism spectra of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from 0.6 to 1.6μm from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope. These new infrared grism data augment previous optical Advanced Camera for Surveys G800L 0.6-0.95μm grism data