Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE0775546

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE0775546

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Construction of the blue-arm of the ANU 2.3m telescope Wide-Field Spectrograph. The new blue and red arms of the WiFeS spectrograph on the SSO 2.3m telescope utilizes new optical techniques and advances in detector technology to provide unique capabilities for front-line research and student training. The novel integral field units on WiFeS extract spectra across the face of faint, distant galaxies enabling the dynamics of the stellar and gas content to be analysed in unprecedented detail. Another important project will be to follow-up interesting objects discovered by the new SkyMapper telescope and establish those that need to be observed on 8 m telescopes such as Gemini, Magellan or VLT.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

Funding Amount: $370,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomy And Astrophysics | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Instruments And Techniques |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical sciences | Scientific instrumentation

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Astronomy And Astrophysics | Instruments And Techniques | Physical sciences | Scientific instrumentation

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