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UKIRT NEWSLETTER
** UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE **

United Kingdom Infrared Telescope

N E W S L E T T E R

ISSUE 6, MARCH 2000

Now you see it, now you don't: images of the well-known planetary nebula IC 418 taken during recent commissioning of the 400 km/s Fabry-Perot Etalon with UFTI. The FP was tuned to the wavelength of Br-gamma (left) and adjacent continuum (right) - see the UKIRT News section for further details.
** Front Cover **

CONTENTS OF THE MARCH 2000 NEWSLETTER

TOP END

RESEARCH NEWS  

  • A Population of Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets in Orion
  • Simultaneous near-infrared and X-ray variability in the quasar 3C 273: The origin of the X-ray seed photons
  • The power of UFTI with ORAC: new images of an old friend, HH 1
  • A chip off the old block
UKIRT NEWS 
  • Fabry-Perot etalon now available with UFTI
  • Orac is coming!
  • Remote eavesdropping at UKIRT with WORF
  • Results of our brief flexible scheduling experiment
  • View from the top
  • People

THE BACK PAGE

    Ufti images SCUBA galaxy field at 0.3" resolution!

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Last Modification Author: Chris Davis
Contact: Chris Davis. Updated: Tue Jul 6 16:16:53 HST 2004

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