
TY  - JOUR
A1  - McGregor, Peter J. 
A1  - Dopita, Michael 
A1  - Wood, Peter 
A1  - Burton, Michael G. 
T1  - Science with NIFS, Australia's First Gemini Instrument
JF  - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JO  - Publ. Astron. Soc.  Aust.
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 18
IS  - 1
SP  - 41
EP  - 57
KW  - instrumentation: spectrographs &#8212; galaxies: nuclei &#8212; galaxies: Seyfert &#8212; infrared: galaxies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AS01007 
N2  - The Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) will beAustralia&#8217;s first Gemini instrument. NIFS is a near-infrared, imaging spectrograph that will be used with the ALTAIR facility adaptive optics system on Gemini North to perform near-diffraction-limited imaging spectroscopy over a 3&#183;0&Prime; &#215; 3&#183;0&Prime; field of view with 0&#183;1&Prime; wide slitlets and a spectral resolving power of &#732;5300. NIFS will operate in the wavelength range from 0&#183;94&#8211;2&#183;50 &#181;m where ALTAIR delivers its greatest gains. Its primary purpose is to study moderate-surface-brightness structures around discrete objects that are revealed at high spatial resolution by ALTAIR. NIFS will address a wide range of science from studies of Galactic star formation and the Galactic centre to the nature of disk galaxies at z &#732; 1. Studies of the demographics of massive black holes in galactic nuclei and studies of the excitation conditions in the inner narrow-line regions of Seyfert galaxies have been identified as two core NIFS programs. These and other science drivers for NIFS are discussed. 
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