1997/10/30 by Jonathan P. Gardner, J. P. Gardner, Robert Hill +27
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Grism #Hubble Deep Field #Hubble Deep Field South #Hubble Ultra-Deep Field #Hubble space telescope #Observational cosmology #Physics #Redshift #Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph #Spectral line #Spectrograph #Spectroscopy #Star formation #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/311105
11 pages, Latex, 3 enclosed Postscript figures, aaspp4.sty, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters HST Second Servicing Mission special issue
arxiv created 1997/10/30 · openalex publication_date 1998/01/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The installation of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) allows for the first time two-dimensional optical and ultraviolet slitless spectroscopy of faint objects from space. The STIS Parallel Survey (SPS) routinely obtains broadband images and slitless spectra of random fields in parallel with HST observations using other instruments. The SPS is designed to study a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the rate of star formation in galaxies at intermediate to high redshift through the detection of emission-line galaxies. We present the first results of the SPS, which demonstrate the capability of STIS slitless spectroscopy to detect and identify high-redshift galaxies.