Guillermo Haro 2014: Advanced School on Integral Field Spectroscopy

Techniques and Analysis



Format of the Workshop

Format and programme of the school


The school will run from Monday to Friday, and it will be organized into:

  • Lecture sessions (morning)
    • 2-3 lectures (40+5 min) providing a pedagogical introduction to the scientific problems to be tackled in the hands-on sessions, including both the theoretical background as well as the observational context.
    • 2-3 short contributions (20+5 min) summarizing the state of the art, with special emphasis on the contribution of IFS techniques. Presentations of past or forthcoming results by the participants are strongly encouraged.
    • Discussion (30 min) focused on plans for future work.
  • Hands-on sessions (afternoon)
    • Explanation of the exercise & preliminaries (90 min)
    • Tutorial & actual work (90 min)

Programme

A broad list of topics to be covered during are the following:
  • Introduction to IFS
    • IFS technique
    • IFS instrumentation, present and future
    • Common IFS software
    • Data retrieval, principles of reduction
    • Principles of IFS data analysis: spatial binning, continuum subtraction, line fitting
  • Analysis of stellar populations
    • Theory: SSPs, chemical evolution
    • Observations: total mass, SFR, SFH
    • Analysis tools and methods
    • Spectroscopic bulge-disk decomposition
    • Barred galaxies & abundance gradients
  • Analysis of nebular emission
    • Analysis tools and methods
    • Nebular diagnostics
    • Spatially resolved abundances
    • Aperture corrections based on IFS
    • AGN vs. galaxy-host decomposition
    • Effects of geometry & spatial resolution on IFS
    • SNe & IFS
  • Kinematics
    • Theory & observations
    • Distribution of angular momentum (SAURON, CALIFA)
    • Analysis tools and methods, kinemetric
  • Future IFS surveys
    • MaNGA, SAMI, MUSE
    • Extension to infrared IFS data
    • Combination of IFS with multi-wavelength data
    • Future prospect on IFS