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A KECK ADAPTIVE OPTICS SURVEY OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED STAR-FORMING GALAXIES: HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION STUDIES OF KINEMATICS AND METALLICITY GRADIENTS

  • Authors: Nicha Leethochawalit, Tucker A. Jones, Richard S. Ellis, Daniel P. Stark, Johan Richard, Adi Zitrin, and Matthew Auger

2016 The Astrophysical Journal 820 84.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Potential dangers of interpreting kinematic data with poor sampling. Left: source plane Hα intensity map and velocity field in this study for CSWA19 (top row) and CSWA31 (bottom row). Right: respective simulated Hα intensity map and velocity field indicating the deterioration in resolution equivalent to that for non-lensed sources studied with KMOS. In both cases, the complex morphology and velocity structure is lost in the poorer sampled data leading to the erroneous conclusion of kinematically well-ordered systems.

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