Star-Formation in the local Universe and high-resolution imaging spectroscopy.

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:23090101,
            doi = {10.48660/23090101},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/23090101},
            author = {Rousseau-Nepton, Laurie},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Star-Formation in the local Universe and high-resolution imaging spectroscopy.},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2023},
            month = {sep},
            note = {PIRSA:23090101 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

This seminar will be divided in two segments: 1) New Instrumentation for Astronomy and 2) the SIGNAL-Survey of Star-forming regions in Nearby Galaxy.

1) Evolution of technologies and optics manufacturing technics are providing new interesting options for the design of astronomical instruments to increase precision and add new capabilities. In this presentation, I will discuss my new laboratory plan at the University of Toronto to include Micro-kinetic inductance detector arrays and meta-surface optics to a Fourier Transform Imaging spectrograph design. The goal is to reach high-spectral resolution (R:15,000 to 80,000) over a large field-of-view, while keeping high sensitivity.

2) SIGNALS stands for the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey. Using a Fourier Transform Imaging Spectrograph SITELLE, at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, we observed 40 nearby galaxies and covered over 50,000 star-forming regions in different environment at a spatial resolution from 0.5 to 40 pc. Covering several emission line spectral features including Halpha (at R: 5,000), the survey aims at characterizing the star-forming sites and their environments to produce the most complete and well resolved database on star formation.

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Zoom link https://pitp.zoom.us/j/94273599584?pwd=TUY3UFpVa20wbkJUcEdoTmlYUzlQUT09

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Bio:

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton is a new faculty at the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She comes with six years of experience working as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory supporting various instruments including wide-field cameras, high-resolution spectrographs, Fourier Transform Spectro-imager. She received her diploma from Université Laval by studying regions of star formation in spiral galaxies and helping with the development of two Fourier Transform Spectro-imagers, SpIOMM and SITELLE. She is now leading an international project called SIGNALS, the Star formation, Ionized Gas, and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey, which sampled with the SITELLE instrument more than 50,000 of star-forming regions in 40 nearby galaxies to understand how the local environment affect the young star clusters characteristics.