NMSU Astronomy | Fall 2014 | Cat Wu 
 
 
 

Observing at APO on the ARC 3.5m telescope with DIS


Useful info/tools:

APO's website
Typical observing run using the multi-slit setup.
Multi-slit mask setup, according to Jon Holtzman.
Instructions we send to the Obs Spec.

Hourly Airmass Table, courtesy of Skycalc
NED (NASA Extragalactic Database)
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
IRAF's 'airchart' task

Osterbrock's 1996 paper, Night-Sky High-Res Spectral Atlas
- from that paper: plot for ~6560Å - ~6590Å (the range of our 4 narrowband filters)

 

Targets...

Galaxy RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Radial Vel Obs Hα Diam PA (°) inc (°) Filter HG G VLA APO
NGC 0891 02h22m33.41s +42d20m56.9s 528 km/s 6574.6Å 14' 22 84 657 -- 12.9
NGC 3044 09h53m41.00s +01d34m45s 1250* km/s 6591.2Å 4.7' 113** 84.9 659 -- -- 5.5
NGC 3079 10h01m57.8s +55d40m47s 1116 km/s 6587.4Å 7.9' 165 85 -- -- -- --
NGC 3628 11h20m17.0s +13d35m23s 843 km/s 6581.5Å 14.8' 104 87 658 -- -- -- 6
NGC 4013 11h58m31.4s +43d56m48s 831 km/s 6581.2Å 5.1 66 90 658 -- -- 7.4
NGC 4244 12h17m29.6s +37d48m26s 244 km/s 6568.3Å 18.5 48 90 657 -- 5,5,5
NGC 4302 12h21m42.5s +14d35m54s 1149 km/s 6588.2Å 5.1 178 89 -- -- --
NGC 4517 12h32m45.6s +00d06m54s 1128 km/s 6587.7Å 11.54 83 87.4 658 -- -- -- 0.75
NGC 4565 12h36m21.0s +25d59m13s 1230 km/s 6590.0Å 15.5 136 90 659 -- 5,5,single
NGC 4631 12h42m08.0s +32d32m29s 606 km/s 6576.3Å 15.5 86 85 657 -- 6.75,3,2
NGC 4762 12h52m56.0s +11d13m51s 984 km/s 6584.5Å 8.7 32 90 658 -- -- -- 3.5
NGC 5023 13h12m12.6s +44d02m28s 407 km/s 6571.7Å 7.28 28 90 -- -- -- --
NGC 5229 13h34m02.8s +47d54m56s 364 km/s 6570.8Å 3.58 167 90 657 -- -- 5
NGC 5907 15h15m53.8s +56d19m44s 667 km/s 6577.6Å 12.8 155 87 657 -- 9.8,5.5
UGC 2082 2h36m16.1s +25d25m26s 696 km/s 6578.0Å 5.94 166 -- -- (✓) -- -- --
UGC 4278 8h13m58.9s +45d44m32s 540 km/s 6574.6Å 5.17 172 90 657 -- 7.2
UGC 7321 12h17m34.0s +22d32m23s 408 km/s 6571.9Å 5.5 82 -- -- -- -- -- --
UGC 7774 12h36m22.7s +40d00m19s 526 km/s 6574.3Å 2.83 102 -- -- -- -- --

Diam = diameter along major axis; HG = HALOGAS target; G = GALEX data; VLA = VLA data; APO = hrs observed at APO
 
* According to Siow-Wang Lee (1997, ApJ, 490:247-262) Fig. 4, the systemic velocity at the optical center is 1250 km/s.
** According to Siow-Wang Lee (1997, ApJ, 490:247-262), "The position angle agrees with that given in the RC3 (note that there is a mistake in the RC3, the position angle listed should be 113° instead of 13°)."  

Additional data: N891 plume, N4559, N5055, N4565 single