KMOS: Assembly, integration and testing of three 0.8-2.5 micron spectrographs by Masters, R, Lewis, I, Tosh, I, Tecza, M, Lynn, J, Watkins, R, Clack, A, Davies, R, Thatte, N, Tacon, M, Makin, R, Temple, J, Pearce, A

“…KMOS is a second generation instrument in construction for use at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). …”

Ammonia in Jupiter's troposphere from high-resolution 5 μm spectroscopy by Giles, R, Fletcher, L, Irwin, P, Orton, G, Sinclair, J

“…Jupiter's tropospheric ammonia (NH 3 ) abundance is studied using spatially resolved 5 μm observations from the cryogenic high-resolution infrared spectrograph (CRIRES) at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. The high-resolving power (R = 96,000) allows the line shapes of three NH 3 absorption features to be resolved. …”

MOSAIC on the ELT: high-multiplex spectroscopy to unravel the physics of stars and galaxies from the dark ages to the present-day by Hammer, F, Morris, S, Cuby, JG, Kaper, L, Steinmetz, M, Afonso, J, Barbuy, B, Bergin, E, Finogenov, A, Gallego, J, Kassin, S, Miller, C, Ostlin, G, Penterricci, L, Schaerer, D, Ziegler, B, Chemla, F, Dalton, G, Frondat, FD, Evans, C, Mignant, DL, Puech, M, Rodrigues, M, Sanchez-Janssen, R, Taburet, S, Tasca, L, Yang, YB, Zanchetta, S, Dohlen, K, Dubbeldam, M, Hadi, KE, Janssen, A, Kelz, A, Larrieu, M, Lewis, I, MacIntosh, M, Morris, T, Navarro, R, Seifert, W

Optical spectroscopy of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array – II by Kasai, E, Goldoni, P, Pita, S, Williams, DA, Max-Moerbeck, W, Hervet, O, Cotter, G, Backes, M, Boisson, C, Becerra González, J, Barres de Almeida, U, D’Ammando, F, Fallah Ramazani, V, Lindfors, E

“…Deep medium- to high-resolution spectroscopy of 33 gamma-ray blazar optical counterparts was performed with the European Southern Observatory, New Technology Telescope, Keck II telescope, Shane 3-metre telescope, and the Southern African Large Telescope. …”

The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: Correlation with the ROSAT-ESO flux-limited X-ray galaxy cluster survey by Hilton, M, Collins, C, De Propris, R, Baldry, I, Baugh, C, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Bridges, T, Cannon, R, Cole, S, Colless, M, Couch, W, Dalton, G, Driver, S, Efstathiou, G, Ellis, R, Frenk, C, Glazebrook, K, Jackson, C, Lahav, O, Lewis, I, Lumsden, S, Maddox, S, Madgwick, D, Norberg, P, Peacock, J

“…The ROSAT-European Southern Observatory (ESO) flux-limited X-ray (REFLEX) galaxy cluster survey and the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), respectively, comprise the largest, homogeneous X-ray selected cluster catalogue and completed galaxy redshift survey. …”

The mass of the black hole in Centaurus A from SINFONI AO-assisted integral-field observations of stellar kinematics by Cappellari, M, Neumayer, N, Reunanen, J, van der Werf, P, de Zeeuw, P, Rix, H

“…The observations were obtained with SINFONI (Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observations in the Near Infrared) at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope in the near-infrared (IR) (K band), using adaptive optics (AO) to correct for the blurring effect of the Earth's atmosphere. …”

The Galactic center chimneys: the base of the multiphase outflow of the Milky Way by Ponti, G, Morris, MR, Churazov, E, Heywood, I, Fender, RP

Low-frequency radio spectra of submillimetre galaxies in the Lockman Hole by Ramasawmy, J, Geach, JE, Hardcastle, MJ, Best, PN, Bonato, M, Bondi, M, Rivera, GC, Cochrane, RK, Conway, JE, Coppin, K, Duncan, KJ, Dunlop, JS, Franco, M, Garcia-Vergara, C, Jarvis, MJ, Kondapally, R, McCheyne, I, Prandoni, I, Rottgering, HJA, Smith, DJB, Tasse, C, Wang, L

Combining dark energy survey science verification data with near-infrared data from the ESO VISTA hemisphere survey by Banerji, M, Jouvel, S, Lin, H, McMahon, RG, Lahav, O, Castander, FJ, Abdalla, FB, Bertin, E, Bosman, SE, Carnero, A, Kind, MC, Da Costa, LN, Gerdes, D, Gschwend, J, Lima, M, Maia, MAG, Merson, A, Miller, C, Ogando, R, Pellegrini, P, Reed, S, Saglia, R, Sanchez, C, Allam, S, Annis, J, Bernstein, G, Bernstein, J, Bernstein, R, Capozzi, D, Childress, M, Cunha, CE, Davis, TM, Depoy, DL, Desai, S, Diehl, HT, Doel, P, Findlay, J, Finley, DA, Flaugher, B, Frieman, J, Gaztanaga, E, Glazebrook, K, Gonzalez-Fernandez, C, Gonzalez-Solares, E, Honscheid, K, Irwin, MJ, Jarvis, MJ, Kim, A, Koposov, S, Kuehn, K, Kupcu-Yoldas, A, Lagattuta, D, Lewis, JR, Lidman, C, Makler, M, Marriner, J, Marshall, JL, Miquel, R, Mohr, JJ, Neilsen, E, Peoples, J, Sako, M, Sanchez, E, Scarpine, V, Schindler, R, Schubnell, M, Sevilla, I, Sharp, R, Soares-Santos, M, Swanson, MEC, Tarle, G, Thaler, J, Tucker, D, Uddin, SA, Wechsler, R, Wester, W, Yuan, F, Zuntz, J

“…We present the combination of optical data from the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with near-infrared (NIR) data from the European Southern Observatory VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS). …”

The infrared-radio correlation of star-forming galaxies is strongly M-star-dependent but nearly redshift-invariant since z similar to 4 by Delvecchio, I, Daddi, E, Sargent, MT, Jarvis, MJ, Elbaz, D, Jin, S, Liu, D, Whittam, IH, Algera, H, Carraro, R, D'Eugenio, C, Delhaize, J, Kalita, BS, Leslie, S, Molnar, DC, Novak, M, Prandoni, I, Smolcic, V, Ao, Y, Aravena, M, Bournaud, F, Collier, JD, Randriamampandry, SM, Randriamanakoto, Z, Rodighiero, G, Schober, J, White, SV, Zamorani, G

Keck spectroscopy of faint 3 < z < 7 Lyman break galaxies - I. New constraints on cosmic reionization from the luminosity and redshift-dependent fraction of Lyman alpha emiss... by Stark, D, Ellis, R, Chiu, K, Ouchi, M, Bunker, A

“…Combined with earlier Keck and published European Southern Observatory (ESO) VLT data, our spectroscopic sample contains more than 600 dropouts offering new insight into the nature of sub-L* sources typical of those likely to dominate the cosmic reionization process. …”

Stellar triples on the edge: Comprehensive overview of the evolution of destabilised triples leading to stellar and binary exotica by Toonen, S, Boekholt, TCN, Zwart, SP